Siobhan O'Hagan #37 Alcohol addiction, doesn't read fiction, back in Bali by Christmas is our prediction.

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I wouldn’t mind, but she didn’t grow up in sunny climes. In fact, when did you start travelling? 2018? She knows god damn well she’s spent the majority of her life pale. It’s the same as the temperature. You spent 6 months of the year for the last 4 years in Asia, Siobhan. You know well the temperature in the UK and Ireland.

unknownindividual said:
Exactly!!! I will never understand why she is obsessed with being pale! Does she not look in the mirror?! She’s not tanned shes leathery and severely sun-damaged.

Is it unsolicited advice to tell her that gingers with fair skin are not meant to be tanned?!
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KarenK93 said:
I wouldn’t mind, but she didn’t grow up in sunny climes. In fact, when did you start travelling? 2018? She knows god damn well she’s spent the majority of her life pale. It’s the same as the temperature. You spent 6 months of the year for the last 4 years in Asia, Siobhan. You know well the temperature in the UK and Ireland.
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Excuse you Karen - you’re forgetting about the summers she spent at casa de caravan. 😂😂
 
Has she ever posted even one meal without some form of sauce on it. Even her poached boiled eggs have a horrible looking sauce on them.

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Diet culture. Where do I stand?

It’s been a weird couple of years, learning, acknowledging, improving.

You know the saying ‘when you know better, do better’? That’s how I’ve been living my life and changing my messaging on instagram over the last couple of years.

I used to think that I was helping so many women by showing them what was possible in such a short space of time by using my dramatic transformation photos.

I really thought I was using the photos to encourage women to lift weights and not make all the dieting mistakes that I had made in the past.

I was so proud of how disciplined and focused I was.

I was in my mid-twenties. All I cared about was looking sexy and feeling strong.

I was deep in the #fitfam culture.

(are hashtags still at thing?)

I had so many women see my transformation and want to pay me to help them have a similar transformation.

I loved coaching women and teaching them about resistance training and nutrition.

But then, around 2018/2019, I started hearing and reading about ‘diet culture’.

I was angry. I thought the anti-diet advocates were personally attacking me and my business.

(Anger is a natural reaction when you are triggered about something you haven’t fully acknowledged in yourself)

But once I was able to clear the anger and actually listen to these voices, I realised that there were perspectives and privileges that I had never ever acknowledged.

I didn’t realise, no matter what the caption was, that using transformation photos automatically places negative emotions on the ‘starting’ photo, which can be triggering for people - especially anybody with an eating disorder.

I didn’t realise how many people out there had eating disorders or even disordered eating.

I really thought I was helping people just feel better about themselves.

I then decided, by teaching people about energy balances and training for aesthetics - that I was a huge part of the problem and needed to shut down the Oh Fitness Furnace immediately!

I remember speaking to one of our coaches, Kate about it at the time. She helped me realise that what we were doing, was actually ok. She reminded me that we are helping women get stronger, and educating them about nutrition, in a way that helps them see through the BS of crazy diets.

The more I read about diet culture and the effect that dieting can have in the long run, the more I realised that most people would be better if they had never ever started dieting.

But the sad fact is, so many women, especially my age, want to change their body. So many women think that they ‘should’ lose weight.

Too many women spend every day thinking about their next meal and how much they move.

We are so bombarded by diet culture and gluttonous food consumption, that we find it so hard to listen to our actual hunger levels.

Having worked with thousands of women over the years, I started to realise that women who wanted to lose a lot of fat, weren’t simply uneducated on nutrition, but really needed to work on the psychology around it.

I think (and I am open to being wrong on this or changing my mind), that simply telling women not to diet, will just push these women who are desperate to change their bodies, into the traps of the coaches who are not working as ethically and putting women through transformations/challenges that might change their body, but in the long run - create lasting mental damage.

I want to bridge that gap.

I advise most clients to track calories, not to make sure that they aren’t eating too much, but to make sure that they are eating enough.

I want women to learn to trust their bodies and hunger levels. I want women who are tied up in diet culture to feel how good it feels to not be hungry all the time. I want women to to eat carbs. I want women to be happy.

If you think changing your body in a miserable way will make you happier, you probably need to join The Furnace.

Click below to get started or feel free to reply if you have any questions.

Thanks for reading,

Siobhan "Anti-Anti-Diet" O'Hagan
 
Defo_Not_Shiv said:
Exactly - I’d rather live my 9-5 life with my small circle of trusted friends. Then pretend online for 150k people that I’m doing fine when I’m on a downward spiral.
The fact they openly mock her in videos and she just usually laughs thinking she’s in on the joke. Rather than her being the joke.

The whole friendship with Sinead never made any sense to me. Seemed like it was just transactional and all for show.But she was the closest thing to a proper friend. Then whatever happened with the passport - there has been something said. Sinead was in Dublin and Siobhan chose to stay in with her family then go out drinking…. Pretty clear that the friendship is dead.
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Maybe jack was the mysterious wanker

unknownindividual said:
Exactly!!! I will never understand why she is obsessed with being pale! Does she not look in the mirror?! She’s not tanned shes leathery and severely sun-damaged.

Is it unsolicited advice to tell her that gingers with fair skin are not meant to be tanned?!
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and pretty much everyone in london is pale anyway
 
Mocaacom said:
Diet culture. Where do I stand?

It’s been a weird couple of years, learning, acknowledging, improving.

You know the saying ‘when you know better, do better’? That’s how I’ve been living my life and changing my messaging on instagram over the last couple of years.

I used to think that I was helping so many women by showing them what was possible in such a short space of time by using my dramatic transformation photos.

I really thought I was using the photos to encourage women to lift weights and not make all the dieting mistakes that I had made in the past.

I was so proud of how disciplined and focused I was.

I was in my mid-twenties. All I cared about was looking sexy and feeling strong.

I was deep in the #fitfam culture.

(are hashtags still at thing?)

I had so many women see my transformation and want to pay me to help them have a similar transformation.

I loved coaching women and teaching them about resistance training and nutrition.

But then, around 2018/2019, I started hearing and reading about ‘diet culture’.

I was angry. I thought the anti-diet advocates were personally attacking me and my business.

(Anger is a natural reaction when you are triggered about something you haven’t fully acknowledged in yourself)

But once I was able to clear the anger and actually listen to these voices, I realised that there were perspectives and privileges that I had never ever acknowledged.

I didn’t realise, no matter what the caption was, that using transformation photos automatically places negative emotions on the ‘starting’ photo, which can be triggering for people - especially anybody with an eating disorder.

I didn’t realise how many people out there had eating disorders or even disordered eating.

I really thought I was helping people just feel better about themselves.

I then decided, by teaching people about energy balances and training for aesthetics - that I was a huge part of the problem and needed to shut down the Oh Fitness Furnace immediately!

I remember speaking to one of our coaches, Kate about it at the time. She helped me realise that what we were doing, was actually ok. She reminded me that we are helping women get stronger, and educating them about nutrition, in a way that helps them see through the BS of crazy diets.

The more I read about diet culture and the effect that dieting can have in the long run, the more I realised that most people would be better if they had never ever started dieting.

But the sad fact is, so many women, especially my age, want to change their body. So many women think that they ‘should’ lose weight.

Too many women spend every day thinking about their next meal and how much they move.

We are so bombarded by diet culture and gluttonous food consumption, that we find it so hard to listen to our actual hunger levels.

Having worked with thousands of women over the years, I started to realise that women who wanted to lose a lot of fat, weren’t simply uneducated on nutrition, but really needed to work on the psychology around it.

I think (and I am open to being wrong on this or changing my mind), that simply telling women not to diet, will just push these women who are desperate to change their bodies, into the traps of the coaches who are not working as ethically and putting women through transformations/challenges that might change their body, but in the long run - create lasting mental damage.

I want to bridge that gap.

I advise most clients to track calories, not to make sure that they aren’t eating too much, but to make sure that they are eating enough.

I want women to learn to trust their bodies and hunger levels. I want women who are tied up in diet culture to feel how good it feels to not be hungry all the time. I want women to to eat carbs. I want women to be happy.

If you think changing your body in a miserable way will make you happier, you probably need to join The Furnace.

Click below to get started or feel free to reply if you have any questions.

Thanks for reading,

Siobhan "Anti-Anti-Diet" O'Hagan
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I mean what is she actually charging for? Therapy? Or a guide on how to use my fitness pal? Where does age explain what you get from this Furnace?
 
The gaul to be like oh golly guys remember when I had to quantanine just to get back into my beloved "home" bali after she had fled it originally. All she did was moan about the food and trying to do 20,000 in a room each day like a caged animal. I always think of animals in cages when she does the manic walking up and down a room. Just waking up and there is a real nip in the air she will be frozen soon enough with her early mornings.
 
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