Fierce Fatty Podcast

A companion piece to episode 122, today we are hearing from even more people about their experience pre and post-bariatric surgery. These people whose voices have been ignored and unheard and their testimonies are incredibly important. You don’t have to have listened to episode 122 but it would be helpful for more context. Giant trigger warning: death, bad health outcomes, general awful fat hate. Episode show notes: http://www.fiercefatty.com/126 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 "Episode 122: https://fiercefatty.com/122 IG post with stories and comments: https://www.instagram.com/p/CcoU5cqPv7e/ Palegingerpear: https://www.instagram.com/palegingerpear/ Nicola Salmon: https://www.instagram.com/fatpositivefertility/"

We are going on a wild ride today! From tall-haired religious leaders who say you need to stop bowing down to the refrigerator and instead bow down to god to Breatharians who think you can live just on air and energy from the universe. We are talking cults, MLMs, and weird religious groups and it’s a doozy. TW: starvation, abuse, coercion, child abuse, and death, eating disorders mention specific foods and calories. Episode show notes: http://www.fiercefatty.com/125 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 From NXIVM to 'The Way Down,' Cults Really Love a Dangerous Diet Culture: https://jezebel.com/the-way-down-cults-diet-culture-nxivm-1848848898?utm_campaign=Jezebel&utm_content=1651082543&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR2oH2WLP20vM4hqZti7CyyMGmeVO7MrlFACuvIV7xDQhU9EldfWij0pmGc Gwen Shamblin’s Weigh Down Workshops Are Unfortunately Still Active: https://www.bustle.com/entertainment/do-the-weigh-down-workshops-still-exist-active Ex-members of Nxivm say leader Keith Raniere brainwashed women into starving themselves: https://www.insider.com/nxivm-leader-keith-raniere-brainwashed-women-into-starving-themselves-2020-10 NXVIM docs: The Vow and Seduced and CBC podcast Uncover LuLaRoe Founder Profits From Sending Consultants To Mexico For Weight Loss Surgery: https://www.ravishly.com/lularoe-founder-profits-sending-consultants-mexico-weight-loss-surgery Thousands of Women Say LuLaRoe’s Legging Empire Is a Scam: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-04-27/thousands-of-women-say-lularoe-s-legging-empire-is-a-scam The People Who Think Air Is Food: https://www.gq.com/story/breatharians-the-people-who-think-air-is-food Breatherian 60 Minute’s doc snippet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnCuzUd4eC0 94: The Psychology of Hunger: https://fiercefatty.com/094 41: Is Diet Culture a Cult?: https://fiercefatty.com/041

Fatphobia is a slippery motherf*cker and has a knack for being the uninvited guest in your brain which sometimes we don’t ever notice! Listen in to hear the list of 10 differiet ways weight-bias is in people’s lives and see if there is any behaviours or thoughts of yours that you could tweak or change.. Episode show notes: http://www.fiercefatty.com/124 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 NPP Fat Positive DEI course: https://www.nalgonapositivitypride.com/events/fat-positive-dei-crash-course-part-2-registration?utm_campaign=110adb22-91f6-4267-9326-9694e7af0b7c&utm_source=so&utm_medium=mail&cid=cada87e1-3ae3-4901-9c71-fb1375ee530d

Being trans nonbinary and fat is quite the adventure for me! Especially as I am talking to cis het men on the dating apps, interacting with them can be triggering for my internalised transphobia. Today’s episode we are talking about the two identities of trans and fat and how they play off each other PLUS dating stories and theories on why cis het men can be giant ding-a-lings. Episode show notes: http://www.fiercefatty.com/123 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 "Weight Stigma as a Violation of the NASW Code of Ethics: A Call to Action: https://jswve.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/10-019-100-IJSWVE-2022.pdf#page65 At the Intersection of Fat & Trans: https://affirmativecouch.com/at-the-intersection-of-fat-trans/ The Tragedy of Heterosexuality Sexual Cultures by Jane Ward: https://nyupress.org/9781479851553/the-tragedy-of-heterosexuality/"

If you google weight loss surgery then you'll be met with images of smiling formally fat, now thin, people and the image of their unhappy former fat self alongside them. Life is great now they are thin and happy and (presumably) healthy. But are these images accurate? Do they tell the complete story? In today's show, I am sharing first-person accounts from folks who have 8 years post-surgery. It's particularly important to hear from people who are not in the honeymoon stage as their stories are seldom told. TW: mention of suicide attempts and negative outcomes from surgery Episode show notes: http://www.fiercefatty.com/122 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 Untold stories of living with a bariatric body: long-term experiences of weight-loss surgery by Anita Berg: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-9566.12999?fbclid=IwAR3sxUfVnpiHL0kfZNAIZRX6xu_EArYepgOcR57dbuOX9E0sDFvObCKQdIQ This is a companion piece to episode 50. What about weight loss surgery: https://fiercefatty.com/050 My Instagram post with stats on WLS: https://www.instagram.com/p/CQwarxcB_g2/ Patient experiences of outcomes of bariatric surgery: a systematic review and qualitative synthesis: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5709707/?fbclid=IwAR3QZ5VCY8iYMCn-BZzvR-4yZ-kZaf2DkfYjZfNkUqQsJTF8Dxlaumv4rH4

I get so many questions about the difficult situation of overcoming the anxiety around having to see humans when your body has changed size. It feels like almost everyone is (or at some point in time, will be) dealing with this obstacle. Even if our weight stays the same during our lives, our bodies will change in other ways and so talking through this very real anxiety is super important. In today’s episode let me give you a pep talk so we can live our lives and not be consumed with thoughts of “but people are going to judge me negatively so I should hideaway.” Episode show notes: http://www.fiercefatty.com/121 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 Huffpost article: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/covid-weight-gain-office-reopen_n_6228ec0be4b004a43c13b5cc

Diabetes! High blood pressure! Joint pain! Sleep apnea! Surely these are all things that can only be avoided by not being fat and treated primarily by being on a diet? Yeah, we all know that dieting doesn’t work, but what if you NEED to lose weight for health or mobility reasons? Summer Innanen and I talk about that today in our last Death to Diets episode and also share the 2 reasons why you may choose to go on a diet or intentionally lose weight. Episode show notes: http://www.fiercefatty.com/120 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 Nicola Salmon - Fat positive fertility: https://www.instagram.com/fatpositivefertility/ HAES Health Sheets: https://haeshealthsheets.com/

With the revelations about Lindo Bacon surfacing some folks have had mixed feelings on how to feel or act especially if they don’t want to “cancel” Lindo. In this episode, I am breaking down what “cancel culture” is and isn’t and talking about the impact of thin white folks being seen as the spokespeople in fat liberatory spaces. I am also revealing the name of another person who people have been scared to speak up about (including me). TW: mentions of suicide, but nothing in detail/graphic. Episode show notes: http://www.fiercefatty.com/119 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 I will never work with you: https://www.patreon.com/posts/63524845 Movements, Missing Stairs and Lindo Bacon: https://bodyliberationphotos.com/2022/03/08/movements-missing-stairs-and-lindo-bacon/ Holding Lindo Bacon Accountable for Repeated Harm in the Fat Liberation & HAES® Communities: https://asdah.org/lindo-accountability/ A Week Into The Lindo-pocalypse: https://www.patreon.com/posts/63858830 Pay No Attention to the Mob Behind the Curtain: On Cancel Culture: https://fluffykittenparty.com/2021/08/21/pay-no-attention-to-the-mob-behind-the-curtain-on-cancel-culture/ My post on IG: https://www.instagram.com/p/CbJMnhKPeeq/ Elliott Geneste: https://www.instagram.com/p/CKLKPAJh2aV/ Antidietfatty: https://www.instagram.com/p/CbFUWgsvXmC/ ProjectHeal. If you are not fat: https://www.instagram.com/p/CbLWOutpiDB/ Fat Dr Analysis: https://www.patreon.com/posts/lindo-bacon-and-63742578?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copy_to_clipboard&utm_campaign=postshare Nic McDermid: https://www.instagram.com/p/CbGwVDvvhbP/ Caroline Dooner response: ​​https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/17861921042697796/ and here for screenshot link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BbtfXevh5ZDfJ4jMjqUnbgdKAQ19prkI/view?usp=sharing Dooner cancel culture FB post: https://www.facebook.com/261041360669676/photos/pb.100050390594159.-2207520000../4801766803263753/?type=3 

Is loving your body all it’s cracked up to be? Do people who lack body hate to spend all day making out with their reflections? Will body acceptance cure a fatphobic world? What are the harms caused by the concept of body love? I’m going to answer those questions in today’s episode! Episode show notes: http://www.fiercefatty.com/118  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 

The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics has “reviewed” the science and the literature and decided that it’s an excellent idea to tell fat folks to eat the same amount of calories that a 2-year-old needs. Fun! When I say they reviewed the science, I mean that they didn’t really and totally misunderstand what HAES is…thinking it’s a weight loss mechanism, and coming to the conclusion people should avoid it as it doesn’t work…as a weight loss solution. Join me today as I talk about that total clanger as well as lots more courtesy of AND! Episode show notes: http://www.fiercefatty.com/117  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 Link to recommendations and the survey in there March 25th deadline: https://www.andeal.org/public-comment-guideline-review, survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/awm2022 ASDAH’s response: https://asdah.org/community-letter-and-recommendations/?utm_sq=gzn1c88k01&fbclid=IwAR3lnjrBjK9RQeRb0Q7bQlRjqKrGqPrQG1nS-mlt7aXm9opFwVmYYuM4qOI White supremacy: https://www.whitesupremacyculture.info/uploads/4/3/5/7/43579015/okun_-_white_sup_culture_2020.pdf Is the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Choosing Weight Stigma Over Science? https://weightandhealthcare.substack.com/p/is-the-academy-of-nutrition-and-dietetics?r=c8nqp&s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email Ragen Chastain’s subscription newsletter: https://weightandhealthcare.substack.com/   Post from softening.nutrition https://www.instagram.com/p/CaQTRHQv5o1/