The Dose with Paddy and Belinda

What happens when you stop? You've reached your weight, you stop your GLP1 but, then what?

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Paddy and Belinda welcome Mark Fearon, former Leinster rugby player and Operation Transformation participant, for a funny, frank and deeply personal conversation.
Mark shares how a rugby injury changed his life, his experience of weighing over 27 stone, and the years of restrictive diets, binge eating and weight regain that followed. He also opens up about codeine addiction, recovery and the importance of psychological support.
Then we get into the question so many listeners are asking: what happens when you stop weight loss medication?

Mark describes the return of hunger and food noise, despite significant changes to his lifeirestyle, and shares his decision about what comes next.

We talk about:
• Emotional eating, food shame and the “I’ll be good tomorrow” cycle.
• Strength training and finding joy in exercise.
• Weight maintenance and life after reaching your goal.
• Online judgement and unsolicited advice.
• Why Mark is done with extreme diets.

There’s plenty of laughter, a confession about “car chips”, and some appreciation for Mark’s biceps. But at its heart, this is a conversation about rebuilding your relationship with food, your body and yourself.

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This podcast shares personal experience and general information only. It is not intended as medical advice. Always speak with a qualified healthcare professional about individual health decisions, including nutrition or prescription treatments. This episode is not endorsing, or suggesting any medical treatments - thats a decision for you and your Drs only.

Paddy got out of bed on the wrong side this morning, he has a LOT to rant about in regards to weight loss this week - Poor Belinda. 👀

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We get into the cost of treatment, the frustration of a plateau, the comments nobody asked for, and why someone else’s weight loss is apparently everybody’s business. There’s also a three hour old cup of tea, a deeply divisive teabag and several strong opinions. So, a fairly standard episode of The Dose.
Penpals, what’s getting on your nerves about your journey? Send us a message. We’re in the mood to agree with you.

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This podcast shares personal experience and general information only. It is not intended as medical advice. Always speak with a qualified healthcare professional about individual health decisions, including nutrition or prescription treatments. This episode is not endorsing, or suggesting any medical treatments - thats a decision for you and your Drs only.

WE’RE BACK! 🎙️
After 13 weeks away, Paddy and Belinda are reunited, the Pen Pals are officially a thing, and somehow we’ve already had an HR dispute within the first 30 seconds.

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So… what’s happened since we disappeared? Quite a lot, actually.
Paddy has gone from secretly running a 10K to completing his first half marathon, started therapy for the first time, begun fixing his teeth, and, after months of frustration, finally broken through his weight loss plateau and reached a brand new low.
Meanwhile, Belinda gets very real about discovering she’s regained 14lbs over the past year, why maintenance hasn’t gone the way she expected, the possible role of medication, and why she refuses to see this setback as the end of her story.
We also talk weight loss medication, food noise, long term treatment, DEXA scans, loose skin, body changes, the things we wish we’d tracked from day one, and what’s coming up in Season 4.
Plus, Paddy discovers Pilates, Belinda still can’t speak into her microphone, we introduce our imaginary back office staff, and a perfectly innocent conversation about plant milk takes a deeply unfortunate turn.
Basically, The Dose is back.
Same honesty. Same chaos. Slightly better production.
Welcome back, Pen Pals. ❤️

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A short one just to share a little update and say a sincere word of thanks to each and every one of you.
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Well folks, we made it. Season 3 is officially in the bag, and Paddy and Belinda are signing off in the only way they know how ...45 minutes late, blaming the gremlins in the tech, and waved through with a "sure it's grand."
Before anybody panics: it's the end of the season, not the end of the dose. Season 4 is already brewing, and there's a phenomenal lineup waiting in the wings. But first, a proper sit-down to mark where we've landed.
We're closing in on a milestone that genuinely floored us when we looked at the number — and three of the all-time top five episodes have come from this season alone.
We get reflective. Paddy walks back to a desk in May 2024, asking himself if morbid obesity was just going to be his lot for life — and the wedding weekend in June when everything quietly shifted.
Belinda goes back further, to a passive-aggressive magazine article her mam slid across the kitchen table in 2022, an online doctor appointment that lasted ninety seconds, and figuring out a brand-new medication with no community, no TikTok, no anything. Two very different routes in. Two years that look nothing like the lives they came from.
We get into the bigger picture too: how much the GLP-1 landscape has changed in just twenty-four months, where Weight Watchers, Unislim and Slimming World have each landed on it (spoiler: not all gracefully), the things nobody warns women in their forties and fifties about, the rebrand of PCOS, the ongoing question of whether influencers in the weight-loss space owe their followers some honesty, and the one that still hasn't settled in either of our heads.
Plus the lighter stuff: HYROX in September (Belinda has been hoodwinked), Paddy's complicated romance with running, a big summer for Belinda's family, gigs, ferries, Tayto Park, a podcasting conference in London, and a side project Paddy isn't quite ready to talk about yet.
Massive thanks to everyone who's been here — whether you found us last week or you were there for the dodgy Instagram Live in month one. Keep the WhatsApps coming over the break. We'll be back. And if something big breaks in the meantime, you know we won't leave you hanging.
Big love. See you in Season 4
P & B xx

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