
Fierce Fatty Podcast
Join Vinny Welsby (they/them), TEDx speaker, best-selling author, and certified Fierce Fatty as they teach you how to love your fat body without going on yet another ever again. 95-99% of diets fail, it’s not your fault you’ve never succeeded at losing weight! Wear the damn bikini, rock that crop top, and embrace that curvy body. Break down limiting negative self-beliefs and root out the reasons why you think your plus-size body is not ok. Episodes topics include - fatphobia, diet culture, intuitive eating, how to be confident, dating while plus-size, health at every size, overcoming stigma and shame, and taking over the world one fatty at a time!
Latest episodes

Apr 20, 2021 • 47min
076: Intuitive Fasting (AKA How To Spot A Diet-Culture Charlatan) and Fat Fetishism
GOOP donkey Gwyneth Paltrow has promoted a book called Intuitive Fasting and it made me think about all the BS ways diet culture is sneaking into our lives. Now that Body Positivity and Ant-Diet are becoming more trendy I am seeing SO MANY popular IG accounts causing me major eye-roll-itis and indignant groans galore. They *look* legit yet when we scratch the surface there is a different story; in this episode, I will share the red flags that I see waving left and right. PLUS I answer a listening question on whether her new boyfriend is fetishizing her fat body or not. Come join me! Episode show notes: http://www.fiercefatty.com/076 How To Love Your Fat Body (Be In All The Photos, Ditch The Boring Clothes and Stop Pulling Your Top Down To Hide Your Belly): www.fiercefatty.com/challenge Free Training: The 4 Simple Steps to Feel Confident in Your Body and Around Food ... Even If You Believe It's Not Possible! https://event.webinarjam.com/channel/org

Apr 13, 2021 • 46min
075: How To Change Your Neural Pathways and Unhelpful Beliefs
Do you have some unhelpful beliefs that you can't get rid of no hard you try? Then listen on into this episode where I talk about neural pathways, what they are and how we can use the ways our brains work to our benefit. We cover how beliefs are like suitcases and why some beliefs are harder to shake than others. Also, I started online dating! Hear about that sh!t show in today's episode, lol, sob. Episode show notes: http://www.fiercefatty.com/075 Free Training: The 4 Simple Steps to Feel Confident in Your Body and Around Food ... Even If You Believe It's Not Possible!: https://event.webinarjam.com/channel/org

Apr 6, 2021 • 1h 5min
074: Pep Talk Time - You CAN Love Your Body!!
Listen up here now! I heard a little secret that some of you think you can't get to a place of body acceptance...never mind body love. Well my gorgeous fatty, that is balderdash! I am here today to tell you why you can and also how! Episode show notes: http://www.fiercefatty.com/074 Health Sheets: https://haeshealthsheets.com/the-health-sheet-library/ Free Training: The 4 Simple Steps to Feel Confident in Your Body and Around Food ... Even If You Believe It's Not Possible!: https://event.webinarjam.com/channel/org Free Training: The 4 Simple Steps to Feel Confident in Your Body and Around Food ... Even If You Believe It's Not Possible!: https://event.webinarjam.com/channel/org

Mar 30, 2021 • 1h 3min
073: Are Fat People “Heart Attacks Waiting To Happen”?
What our society has taught us about fat people: OMG, fat people are stalking the streets in search of thin people to gobble up! Once they catch them the fatties suck what little fat The Thins (TM) have through a straw pierced into their belly buttons! Their appetites and depravity know no bounds and due to their deplorable behaviour they are "heart attacks waiting to happen"!!!!!! Of course, I am exaggerating there, but should we be worried that if we live in a fat body we are probably gonna die imminently? Is there any truth to the hyperbolic headlines featuring images of headless fatties? Let’s talk about it in this episode. TW: O Words, health, and weight correlations, health-promoting behaviours, death from medical fatphobia Episode show notes: http://www.fiercefatty.com/073 Free Training: The 4 Simple Steps to Feel Confident in Your Body and Around Food ... Even If You Believe It's Not Possible!: https://event.webinarjam.com/channel/org

Mar 23, 2021 • 53min
072: Are We Fat Because Of Trauma? PLUS Age Positivity!
I used to believe that ALL fat people were fat because they had mental health issues. Is it true that when people experience trauma they consciously or unconsciously put on weight to protect themselves? Is being fat just a physical manifestation of something else that is going on that we need to fix? I answer these questions PLUS talk about age positivity in this week's episode. Episode show notes: http://www.fiercefatty.com/072 Gen X Women Feel Excluded from The Body Positive Movement from Time: https://time.com/5348584/body-positive-movement-gen-x-women/ Age Positive People: https://www.instagram.com/robincharmagne/ https://www.instagram.com/glitterglama/ https://www.instagram.com/baddiewinkle/ https://www.instagram.com/idaho_amy/ Tipping the Scales: Effects of Gender, Rape Myth Acceptance, and Anti-Fat Attitudes on Judgments of Sexual Coercion Scenarios: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31475616/ Free Training: The 4 Simple Steps to Feel Confident in Your Body and Around Food ... Even If You Believe It's Not Possible!: https://event.webinarjam.com/channel/org

Mar 16, 2021 • 49min
071: When You Think Other Fat People Are Attractive, but Not Yourself
Do you find yourself thinking "those other fatties are gorgeous but my body is a crime scene!" Why is it that we can intellectually know it's ok to be fat but we think our own bodies are unattractive? This needs to stop! Join me in this episode where I break this down so you can stop falling into this trap. PLUS I update you on the stats around covid and fatness - are the new studies true that fat people are going to spontaneously combust and eat children true? Find out in this episode! Episode show notes: http://www.fiercefatty.com/071 Study of 375K people and covid showing fat people aren't dying from covid at a higher rate: http://bit.ly/3qJtD8Y Free Training: The 4 Simple Steps to Feel Confident in Your Body and Around Food ... Even If You Believe It's Not Possible!: https://event.webinarjam.com/channel/org

Mar 9, 2021 • 31min
070: Dismantling Fatphobia vs. Body Acceptance
Is it irrelevant to work on accepting or even loving our bodies when there are potentially more important things to worry about; like erasing systemic fatphobia? Should we fix that first and then body love will be easier when society adjusts? Let's talk about that in this week's episode! Episode show notes: http://www.fiercefatty.com/070 Free Training: The 4 Simple Steps to Feel Confident in Your Body and Around Food ... Even If You Believe It's Not Possible!: https://event.webinarjam.com/channel/org

Mar 2, 2021 • 58min
069: Food Addiction and Binge Eating Disorder
Binge Eating Disorder is the most prevalent eating disorder in adults, yet hardly anyone talks about it. So many people who live with it believe they are just addicted to food and a good old diet will fix their perceived out-of-control relationship around "bad" food. I talk about my own experience with this eating disorder and how I shifted my beliefs around it to get to a place where I was thankful I had it in my life at the time I needed it. Trigger warning: I will be talking about eating disorders in this episode, food quantities, spousal abuse through food deprivation and also a brief mention of child sexual assault so skip if that’s not feeling ok for you today. Episode show notes: http://www.fiercefatty.com/069

Feb 9, 2021 • 49min
068: 11 Ways You Don’t Realise That You Still Have Diet Culture in Your Life
I've stopped dieting and therefore I am free from the grips of diet culture! Right? Umm..maybe not. Diet culture is this tricky, sticky beast that has its tentacles in so many areas of our life and chances are you still have diet culture lurking in your thinking and ways of behaving. TW: Mentions of food moralisation, diet behaviours Episode show notes: http://www.fiercefatty.com/068

Feb 2, 2021 • 42min
067: When You Think Everyone Hates You
Has a friend been a little distant or perhaps you haven't heard from someone in a while? What does it mean? Well, that everyone hates you...of course! (sarcasm alert). Why is it that we make up stories about how others perceive us in our heads and think that we have f*cked up in some way when the reality is probably something completely different? In this episode, I share how in my irrational brain I think certain people hate me and explore the feelings of those who I am jealous of. Episode show notes: http://www.fiercefatty.com/067 Boundary Boss: http://fiercefatty.com/boundaryboss
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