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Why Fitness Spaces Need to Do Better Around Eating Disorders - with Sophie from ED Informed

This is our first episode of 2026 and it is one that we both feel incredibly passionate about. We explore why fitness spaces can be high risk environments for eating disorders. Sophie, founder of ED Informed, joins us to discuss how diet culture, harmful fitness messaging and a lack of staff training leave many people vulnerable and unsupported. We start by discussing some common misconceptions about eating disorders (this will shock you): Did you know that only 8% of eating disorders affect people in the underweight category? We talk about the hidden signs trainers often miss and unknowingly exacerbate, and the fine line that is often found between performance-focussed training and disordered exercise behaviours. Sophie shares her story and how ED Informed first came into being; the urgent need for mandatory ED-awareness training in fitness spaces, and practical steps fitness professionals can take right now. Most gym goers have experienced weight-centric or body shaming rhetoric, and this is incredibly damaging for folks' long term relationships to movement and their bodies. If you'd like to learn more about ED informed and the work Sophie does, visit: https://www.edinformed.org/learn-more To take part in the survey mentioned, click here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FA... To sign the petition to recognise Eating Disorders in UK Health Policy: https://www.change.org/p/recognise-ea...