Fierce Fatty Podcast

Does this sound familiar? "I keep going into negative thought spirals around weight and it’s worse now because since starting intuitive eating and recovering from my ED I have gained weight." Noticing changes in our body can be distressing and consume our thoughts. Thoughts like "If only I was thin then my life would be better!" Today we talk about how to deal with them and remove shame from the driver's seat. Episode show notes: http://www.fiercefatty.com/110 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 am back with Summer with episiode 2 of Death to Diets and we are talking all about extreme diets. Summer and I have picked our most "favourite" new diets on the market and we talk about why they are fucked up and won't work and are just ridiculous to the max. One diet even says you MUST read a non-fiction book every day, no other genre....say what?! Join us as we laugh and I talk about my swinging tits. Episode show notes: http://www.fiercefatty.com/109 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 What Is the 75Hard Challenge You Keep Hearing About?: https://www.popsugar.com/fitness/what-is-75hard-47290210 Diagnosis: Type 2 Diabetes (T2D): https://haeshealthsheets.com/type-2-diabetes/

We’ve got something a little different for you this week….Death To Diets is a candid, honest chat led by professional body image coach Summer Innanen and world-leading expert on dismantling fatphobia and diet culture, Victoria Welsby. Together, they invite listeners to join them in conversation as they share their topical takes and empowering insights on self-image. This week, they're sharing tips on setting boundaries and how to respond to diet talk during the holiday season. Episode show notes: http://www.fiercefatty.com/108 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 Join me on Fireside: https://firesidechat.com/victoriawelsby

Is it true that all my friends are friends with me because they pity me and actually secretly hate me? Probably not. Is it true that I will never find a romantic partner because I am fat? Probably not. Is it true that because the regional manager is in town that they are there to fire me? Probably not. And even if they are then you survive. Today we have tips for you to deal with shame and feeling better about who you are as a human. Episode show notes: http://www.fiercefatty.com/107 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-Bias Consulting: https://www.fiercefattyconsulting.com/ Email to Diana: https://www.instagram.com/p/CWrYzb1P3JW/

Medical fatphobia - it’s just being told to lose weight, right? Nah, not so much. Of course pretty much every fat person has faced weight bias when encountering health care providers but a lot of people don’t know how rampant and nonsensical fatphobia is in healthcare. I’m sharing 30_ examples today. Plus I talk about the levels of fatphobia. TW: Ton of horrific examples of medical fatphobia, I let you know when that starts. Episode show notes: http://www.fiercefatty.com/106 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 Bubonic Plague in... San Francisco?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtG_5YHaWms Dying Fat: https://youtu.be/71Z677IXUak https://www.instagram.com/nic.mcdermid/ https://ravishly.com/3-levels-of-fatphobia

There are so many misconceptions about fat positivity and I will happily dispel them today! Also...if you really were body positive would you want to pursue health? Do we owe ourselves health? Episode show notes: http://www.fiercefatty.com/105 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 Working toward eradicating weight stigma by combating pathologization: A qualitative pilot study using direct contact and narrative medicine: https://mcusercontent.com/7a8bc7d91775aad77a0d21345/files/93f3a8f2-8caf-92c1-0fff-745ef5069092/Working_toward_eradicating_weight_stigma_by_combating_pathologization.pdf

Do you know why the BMI is racist? Who gets to claim the awesome title of “fat”? What the heck is “death fat”? Answers coming your way, rat bastard! Episode show notes: http://www.fiercefatty.com/104 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 BMI is Racist and Useless By Christine Byrne: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bmi-scale-racist-health_l_5f15a8a8c5b6d14c336a43b0 Inclusive Language For Higher-Weight People by Ragen Chastain: https://weightandhealthcare.substack.com/p/inclusive-language-for-higher-weight?r=c8nqp&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source= The Problem with Person-First Language by Rachel Cohen-Rottenberg: https://thebodyisnotanapology.com/magazine/the-problem-with-person-first-language/ The Fat Spectrum by Fluffy Kitten Party: https://fluffykittenparty.com/2021/06/01/fategories-understanding-smallfat-fragility-the-fat-spectrum/  

If you are struggling to really get into a place of loving your fat body you may be scared of being seen as a "bad fatty" or letting go of your "good fatty" identity. What the heck even is a good fatty and bad fatty and which one should we be? Is it helpful to know these different tropes or does categorising fat people like this cause harm? Episode show notes: http://www.fiercefatty.com/103 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 If you want to donate to me on PayPal you can do it here: https://paypal.me/fiercefatty FF blog post: http://fiercefatty.com/blog/the-good-fatty-vs-bad-fatty-false-dichotomy FF Instagram post: https://www.instagram.com/p/CVTzxQlv-aa/ Stacy Bias: http://stacybias.net/2014/06/12-good-fatty-archetypes/ 9 Ways to Defy the ‘Good Fatty’ Trope: https://everydayfeminism.com/2017/02/9-ways-defy-the-good-fatty-trope/

Today we have stories of hypnosis for “food addiction” and weight loss and discuss if the method of hypnosis is any more effective than traditional diets for weight loss. I also talk about the intersection of gender identity, performing femininity, and fatphobia. PLUS transracial vs transgender identities. Episode show notes: http://www.fiercefatty.com/102 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 If you want to donate to me on PayPal you can do it here: https://paypal.me/fiercefatty Why We Shouldn’t Compare Transracial to Transgender Identities:​​ https://bostonreview.net/race-philosophy-religion-gender-sexuality/robin-dembroff-dee-payton-why-we-shouldnt-compare Hypnosis: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Hypnosis Is Hypnosis Real? Here's What Science Says: https://time.com/5380312/is-hypnosis-real-science/ Hypnotherapy for “ov*rweight” and “ob*se” patients: A narrative review: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2095496420301229 Hypnotherapy for “ov*rweight” and “ob*se” patients: A narrative review: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2095496420301229  

Now that the panini has been going on for a while the science nerds have been able to collect more evidence to support the idea that fat people are going around eating people in the street and giving them covid. Right? Or are other science boffins telling us something else? Let’s look at what we know so far and discuss inequalities in healthcare - and one glaring issue that you may never even heard about. TW: there are some mentions of violent healthcare fatphobia in this episode, plus talk about needles. Episode show notes: http://www.fiercefatty.com/101 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 Cat’s Study Survey found here - tinyurl.com/VaxxC19 Cat’s blog post: https://www.friendofmarilyn.com/blog/onprotectingfatpeoplefromcv19 Even when getting vaccinated against Covid, fatphobia runs rampant - Ally Garrett: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/14/even-when-getting-vaccinated-against-covid-fatphobia-runs-rampant Vaccine Injections for Fat People: https://www.fatbesties.ca/blog/vaccine-injections-for-fat-people Resisting fatphobia in the time of COVID-19 - Medical Xpress: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-01-resisting-fatphobia-covid-.html Research paper called Resisting the problematisation of fatness in COVID-19: In pursuit of health justice: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2212420920315235 Weight and prognosis for influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 infection during the pandemic period between 2009 and 2011: a systematic review of observational studies with meta-analysis: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/23744235.2016.1201721?journalCode=infd20