The Happy Weight Podcast

Aoife Deane

Join Aoife Deane Registered Dietitian (& former binge eater who was three stone heavier) for this podcast on all things happy weight. Happy weight is a feeling not a size. This podcast will be perfect for you if you have struggles with dieting, overeating, binging or body issues. read less
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Happy Weight Podcast Trailer
28-04-2022
Happy Weight Podcast Trailer
Join Aoife Deane, Registered dietitian as she discusses all things related to being and becoming your happy weight. This podcast is perfect for you if you have struggled with dieting, overeating and weight problems.
Then vs. Now: Navigating Teen Body Image
18-10-2023
Then vs. Now: Navigating Teen Body Image
Aoife & her two teacher friends, Mairéad & Gráinne, chat about the obstacles that face teenagers in creating a good body image. The differences between how it is now & how it was for us in the early noughties.
Manifesting a Happy Weight
11-10-2023
Manifesting a Happy Weight
This week, Trisha and Jade join Aoife for a discussion on effective manifestation. Tune in as we explore the barriers that hinder us from achieving our goals and uncover the keys that accelerate the manifestation process.
The Effect of Relationships on Body Image
04-10-2023
The Effect of Relationships on Body Image
Can our relationships affect our body image? Find out as this week, Aoife is joined by her sisters Fiona and Yvonne to discuss if our partner or our relationship status, whether we’re single, in a relationship or married can affect our body image.
Ozempic and Weight Loss
27-09-2023
Ozempic and Weight Loss
Returning for a third season, Aoife is joined by her dietitian friends Gillian and Michelle as they chat about the new blockbuster weight loss drug Ozempic. Tune in as they discuss the pros, the cons and if it really can be part of a “happy ever after” with our behaviours and weight.
IBS, IBD and Weight Problems
05-04-2023
IBS, IBD and Weight Problems
It's the season two finale and Aoife is joined by Trisha. Tune in as they discuss the importance of listening to yourself and trusting your gut. They also explore the difficulty of changing mindset and thought processes when starting the weight loss journey.
The Importance of Positive Self-Talk
22-03-2023
The Importance of Positive Self-Talk
This week, Aoife discusses the importance of positive self talk. She looks at the vicious cycle of losing weight and how stress, anxiety and the preasures of weight loss and can lead to weight gain. Be sure to listen until the very end as Aoife takes us through a breathing exercise to give ourselves clarity in knowing our full ability to treat ourselves right.
CBT, Compassion and Weight Loss
15-03-2023
CBT, Compassion and Weight Loss
With her thesis complete, Aoife is back with another episode. This week, Aoife chats with renowned Cognitive Behavioral Therapist Sharon Clernon of Mindview Clinic. They discuss all things CBT, self compassion and mental health.  You can follow Sharon's Instagram HERE.
Protecting Yourself From Overeating
09-02-2023
Protecting Yourself From Overeating
This week, Aoife and Trisha explore how self-care and overeating are linked. We also discuss how we can succeed in taking proper care of ourselves so that overeating or binge eating seems like an unappealing option.
My Sisters Wedding Weight Loss Experience
02-02-2023
My Sisters Wedding Weight Loss Experience
Join Aoife and her sister Yvonne in this episode which was recorded two days before Yvonne’s wedding. Yvonne shares her experience looking for a wedding dress and feeling the pressure in general to do something drastic and extreme to lose weight before her wedding.
My Slim Best Friend Who Eats Whatever She Wants
26-01-2023
My Slim Best Friend Who Eats Whatever She Wants
We all have that friend who has a healthy weight and never diets. Which is SUPER annoying if you’re always dieting. Well, Grainne was that friend for me. We talk about our different attitudes & upbringings with food & what she does that keeps her at a healthy weight with a loving relationship with food.
Losing Weight With Hypnosis
08-08-2022
Losing Weight With Hypnosis
Tom Nicoli is a highly successful weight loss hypnotherapist featured in shows such as Dateline NBC. Tom and I chat about hypnosis and the subconscious blocks we may have to losing weight. We chat about all the things that must be looked at & dealt with so we can easily and permanently release our unwanted fat.
Eating With Cycles and Seasons
21-06-2022
Eating With Cycles and Seasons
My good friend Katie Lynch joins me today. Katie is a Health & Sustainability Coach. We chat about respecting respecting our own cycles (hormonal to not hormonal, productive to unproductive, social to anti social) and the nutritional benefits of local & seasonal eating.
Weight Loss Truths
07-06-2022
Weight Loss Truths
This week, it’s just me on the podcast! I'll be chatting through a few main concepts that worked for me in changing my relationship with food and therefore changed my weight.
My Story: Dieting & Weight Problems
30-05-2022
My Story: Dieting & Weight Problems
In this weeks episode. I chat with Trisha about my own history of dieting, weight gain, bulimia and binge eating disorder.  I explain what I went through to come out the other side of it, to develop a good relationship with food and a stable weight.
Struggles With Weight
23-05-2022
Struggles With Weight
Registered Dietitian Gillian Galway specialises in adolescent eating disorders and previously worked as a bariatric (weight loss) surgery dietitian. Gillian gives an explanation of what weight loss surgery is, it’s pros and cons. From years of working with both underweight and overweight patients Gillian has some excellent tips on how to have a better outlook and approach to your eating and weight. We also share our stories from the past of being pressured to lose weight and not eat carbohydrates in the workplace, which caused an unexpected reaction.
Teaching Kids How To Eat (What We Can Learn About Ourselves Too)
16-05-2022
Teaching Kids How To Eat (What We Can Learn About Ourselves Too)
Senior Paediatric Dietitian Caitriona Madden joins the podcast to discuss child feeding. There are many newly researched techniques that can be used to help children develop a happy and safe relationship with all foods. Ways most of us did not grow up with! Even if you don’t have children this advice will help you explore your own relationship with food and how you can improve it.
The Urgent Need To Lose Weight
09-05-2022
The Urgent Need To Lose Weight
Aoife and Trisha discuss the pitfalls of the urgency and pressure we put ourselves under to lose weight. How this and the shame we feel for putting it on in the first place can actually worsen our eating and weight. The episode will provide you with a new perspective so you can progress without pressure.
Your Mother, Your Weight
02-05-2022
Your Mother, Your Weight
Aoife and Wellness Expert Trisha Norton discuss the difficulties with struggling with your weight while having the added difficulty of your mother’s well meaning advise and comments about your body and your eating.
Happy Weight Podcast Trailer
28-04-2022
Happy Weight Podcast Trailer
Join Aoife Deane, Registered dietitian as she discusses all things related to being and becoming your happy weight. This podcast is perfect for you if you have struggled with dieting, overeating and weight problems.