🎉 Welcome back to Born This Weigh!

We’re Kari and Lisa, two moms who’ve lost a combined 170+ pounds and are still unpacking the wiring that came with growing up as the fat kid. This is the podcast where we talk about body image, diet culture, identity shifts, motherhood, and the stuff that sticks with you long after the scale changes.

This week, we’re talking about Meghan Trainor, weight loss, public body commentary, and the very specific internet meltdown that happens when someone known for body confidence changes their body.

🎤 Meghan Trainor, Weight Loss & Public Commentary
We get into the way Meghan Trainor’s changing body has sparked opinions, assumptions, backlash, and the usual online chaos. Because apparently, if you build part of your public image around body confidence, people think they own your body forever.

🧠 Why People Get Weird When Fat Girls Get Thin
We talk about the identity whiplash that can happen when someone loses weight, especially when people were attached to who they thought you were before. Sometimes the reaction is not really about the weight loss. It is about what your body change brings up in everyone else.

💛 Body Positivity, Thinness & The Double Standard
We also unpack the impossible standard women get trapped in: love your body, but not too loudly. Lose weight, but not too much. Be confident, but do not change. Be relatable, but stay exactly how people first found you.

If you’ve ever felt like people were more comfortable with your body when it made sense to them, or noticed how quickly the internet turns on women for changing, this episode is for you.

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💛 Meghan Trainor, weight loss, body image, body positivity, public body commentary, and why people get weird when fat girls get thin. Let’s get into it.

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🎉 Welcome back to Born This Weigh!

We’re Kari and Lisa, two moms who’ve lost a combined 175+ pounds and are still unpacking the wiring that came with growing up as the fat kid. This is the podcast where we talk about body image, diet culture, identity shifts, motherhood, and the stuff that sticks with you long after the scale changes.

💛 Want to support Born This Weigh?
If this show makes you feel seen, makes you laugh, or helps put words to the stuff so many of us carry around, you can support the podcast on Patreon. It is less about bonus content and more about helping us keep the show going, support the mission, and get these conversations in front of more people who need them.

Support the show here:
https://www.patreon.com/cw/BornThisWeighPod

This week, we’re talking about staying consistent with weight loss when life gets chaotic, messy, stressful, and deeply inconvenient. Not the polished version of consistency. The real version. The one where life is life-ing, your routines are barely hanging on, and staying dignified is absolutely not on the menu.

🧠 Weight Loss Consistency When Life Gets Hard
We get into what it actually looks like to keep showing up when your schedule, emotions, family, stress, and normal human chaos are all working against you. This is not about being perfect. It is about learning how to stay connected to yourself when real life does not care about your plan.

😂 Trying to Change Your Body Without Losing Your Mind
We talk about the messy middle of trying to build healthier habits while still being a person with feelings, responsibilities, impulses, old patterns, and moments where the wheels fully come off. Because consistency after growing up as the fat kid comes with a lot more emotional baggage than people realize.

💬 “You’re Not Fat, You’re Pretty”
We also dismantle one of the world’s dumbest compliments: “You’re not fat, you’re pretty.” Because fat and pretty were never opposites, and comments like that can stick with you long after the person saying them thinks they were being nice.

💛 Body Image, Fatphobia & Backhanded Compliments
From backhanded compliments to the way fatphobia gets dressed up as reassurance, this episode gets into the weird, loaded messages so many of us absorbed about our bodies, beauty, weight, and worth.

If you’ve ever tried to stay consistent with weight loss while life was falling apart, felt like your body image was fighting your progress, or heard “you’re not fat, you’re pretty” and immediately wanted to launch yourself into space, this episode is for you.

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💛 Weight loss consistency, body image, fatphobia, backhanded compliments, and trying to change your body when life gets hard. Let’s get into it.

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👉 Follow us everywhere: Instagram, TikTok, & YouTube @bornthisweighpod

🎙 Thanks for listening to Born This Weigh — new episodes every Tues!

🎉 Welcome back to Born This Weigh!

We’re Kari and Lisa, two moms who’ve lost a combined 170+ pounds and are still unpacking the wiring that came with growing up as the fat kid. This is the podcast where we talk about body image, diet culture, identity shifts, motherhood, and the stuff that sticks with you long after the scale changes.

💛 Want to support Born This Weigh?
If this show makes you feel seen, makes you laugh, or helps put words to the stuff so many of us carry around, you can support the podcast on Patreon. It is less about bonus content and more about helping us keep the show going, support the mission, and get these conversations in front of more people who need them.

Support us here:
https://www.patreon.com/cw/BornThisWeighPod

This week, we’re doing something a little different.

Kari records this episode on location in Atlanta at a Tough Mudder with Sarah, a listener and friend of the show who is attempting her first Tough Mudder after years of believing spaces like this were not for people in bodies like hers.

🏃‍♀️ Tough Mudder in a Larger Body
What starts as “I’m just going to walk it” turns into nearly six miles on uneven terrain, hours on her feet, and pushing through the very real urge to turn the car around before it even begins. This is what doing something hard actually looks like in real time.

🧠 Body Image, Fear & Fitness Spaces
We get into what it feels like to exist in a larger body in spaces that don’t always feel built for you, from assuming everyone is watching you to realizing they are not, and what happens when you challenge that belief.

💥 Identity Shifts in Real Time
From “I don’t belong here” to “I actually do,” this episode captures the moment those internal narratives start to change, not after the transformation, during it.

🤝 Why Community Changes Everything
This doesn’t happen alone. We talk about support, pacing, and what it means to have people walk with you, literally and mentally, through something that feels impossible.

If you’ve ever told yourself:
“I’ll do that when I’m smaller”
or
“That’s not for people like me”

this episode is for you.

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💛 Tough Mudder, body image, fitness in a larger body, identity shifts, and doing hard things before you feel ready. Let’s get into it.

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