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Olivia Palmer

Olivia Palmer

Chartered Health Psychologist (HCPC) and Registered Nutritionist (ANutr); founder of Embrace Your Plate, specializing in health behavior change and weight-stigma activism.

Jun 18, 2026

3:27
I realised that actually it's our
3:28
biology.
3:29
We're not programmed to change our behaviour to do certain things.
3:33
It won't work.
3:34
But what fascinates me about GLP-1s really is what it's shining a light on in terms of behaviour.
3:40
So the behavioural science fascinates me because I think it lets us ask questions that are really quite simple and it lets us ask the questions that we feel we should already know the answers to and we're a bit too frightened to ask.
3:51
Nobody is asking questions and nobody has the answers, really, although lots of people have started to have them.

6 MINS LATER

9:33
Yes, hashtag.
FrancescaHOST
1:20
Um, how do you think we got here, and what is problematic about it?
1:26
It's a big question, um, and it's something that I think a lot about and often.
1:31
Um, you know, and I'm not a medical professional, so I'm a health psychologist.
1:34
I'm a chartered health psychologist, I'm registered with HCPC, I'm a registered nutritionist, but I'm not a doctor.
1:39
I'm not medical.
1:40
I don't have that medical background.
1:42
But some of the questions I always have for medical professionals who are presented, for example, with a late teens girl with PCOS who goes to the doctor for support, and I've heard of this anecdotally and quite recently, and they get told that, "We're not gonna pursue any diagnostic with you until you've lost weight.
FrancescaHOST
5:40
... how does that...

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