🎉 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.

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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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🎉 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.

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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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🎉 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 mental chaos of trying to change your body without losing your mind in the process.

💛 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.

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This week, we’re talking about body dysmorphia after weight loss, self-perception, and the everyday public humiliation minigames that come with living in a bigger body.

🧠 Body Dysmorphia After Weight Loss & Self-Perception
Kari shares what it felt like to be called a “normie” after losing 100 papas, and why that compliment absolutely did not hit the way a normal person might expect. We get into the identity whiplash that can come with weight loss, and why your brain does not always catch up as fast as your body does.

😂 Physical Traps Fat People Hate
We also break down the everyday setups that feel personally designed to take fat people out: folding chairs, plastic patio chairs, restaurant booths, high-top stools, stadium seats, airplane bathrooms, pool ladders, kayaks, turnstiles, and more. If you have ever walked into a room and immediately scanned for the safest place to sit, this one is for you.

🪑 Living in a Bigger Body in Public
From mentally planning around seating to navigating spaces that were clearly not designed with larger bodies in mind, this episode is painfully relatable, deeply unserious, and way too specific in the most validating way.

🚨 Also… Baby Jessica
Yes, she comes up. Yes, the well. Yes, it all makes sense in context.

If you’ve ever struggled with body image after weight loss, felt stuck in your old identity, or been personally victimized by a folding chair, this episode is for you.

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💛 Physical traps, body dysmorphia after weight loss, self-perception, plus-size struggles, and the rude reality of existing in public. Let’s get into it.

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🎙 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:
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This week, we’re talking about plus size clothing, size inclusive fashion, and why shopping in a bigger body is still way harder than it should be. The episode centers on a viral size inclusivity conversation, your fat friends’ biggest clothing complaints, and the very real frustration of trying to find clothes that actually fit, flatter, and make you feel like a person. It also includes Kari celebrating a huge milestone: officially losing 100 pounds.

👚 Plus Size Clothing Problems Nobody Warns You About
We get into the actual clothing crimes, from fake size inclusivity and tiny plus size sections to straight-size clearance dumped into the “plus” area, one-size-fits-most nonsense, wide calf boot struggles, shapewear that rolls, crop tops that do not understand fat bodies, and the deeply insulting way plus size fashion still gets treated like an afterthought.

🛍️ Size Inclusive Fashion, Activewear Drama & Shopping While Fat
We also talk about the viral reaction to a brand celebrating sizes up to 7X, why some people still get weirdly angry when clothing is made for fat bodies, and how exhausting it is that plus size shopping still feels like a scavenger hunt. From Target frustrations to ugly prints, childish graphics, and clothes that never seem designed with real plus size women in mind, this one got personal fast.

💯 Kari Hit 100 Pounds Down
We also celebrate Kari officially hitting the 100-pound mark, what that milestone brought up emotionally, and what it feels like to look back at an older version of yourself with gratitude instead of disgust. It is funny, vulnerable, chaotic, and very Born This Weigh.

If you’ve ever searched for plus size clothes that actually fit, wondered why size inclusive fashion still misses the mark, or felt personally victimized by one-size-fits-most, this episode is for you.

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💛 Plus size fashion, size inclusive clothing, shopping in a bigger body, and a 100-pound milestone. Let’s get into it.

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🎙 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 mental chaos of trying to change your body without losing your mind in the process.

💛 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 weight gain during a weight loss journey and the absolute panic that can hit when the scale goes up.

⚖️ Weight Gain During a Weight Loss Journey
We get into the emotional whiplash of gaining weight when you feel like you’re doing everything right. If you’ve ever had a weekly weigh-in throw you off, send you into a spiral, or make you question your entire wellness journey, this episode is for you.

🧠 Scale Anxiety, Panic Spirals & Trying Not to Catastrophize
We talk about scale anxiety, the urge to panic, and how fast one small gain can bring up old body image wounds, fear, and self-doubt. From weight fluctuations to the mental side of weight loss, this one is very real.

😂 Choosing Growth Even When It's Hard
We also get into the annoying reality of trying to choose growth over panic, plus the usual Born This Weigh chaos, including crunchy mom tangents, pediatrician side-eye, sneezing, spilled water, and pre-show nonsense that somehow feels very on brand.

If you’ve ever searched why am I gaining weight during weight loss, felt thrown off by normal weight fluctuations, or needed someone else to say that one weird week does not mean you’re failing, this episode is for you.

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💛 Weight gain, scale anxiety, weigh-in spirals, and the deeply rude experience of trying to stay calm during a weight loss journey. Let’s get into it.

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🎉 Welcome back to Born This Weigh!

We’re Kari and Lisa, two moms unpacking body image, diet culture, identity, motherhood, and the total mind game of trying to change your body without losing your personality in the process. If you like funny, honest conversations about gym anxiety, workout shame, body image triggers, and the chaos of a real-life wellness journey, you’re in the right place.

🔥 In this episode:
we’re talking about Jillian Michaels vs Body Positivity Activists, the viral debate, and why fitness culture still knows exactly how to hit the oldest wounds. From body positivity discourse to the emotional baggage we carry into every gym, this one got personal fast.

😵‍💫 We also get into:
gym dread, workout shame, exercise trauma, and the very specific spiral of realizing things are going a little too well and immediately self-sabotaging.

🧠 Also in this episode:
nervous system chaos, body image triggers, old fitness messaging, and why even the idea of “getting healthy” can still feel loaded when you grew up with shame attached to movement.

😂 Expect:
hot takes, side tangents, laughter, a little rage, and the usual Born This Weigh mix of funny, unfiltered commentary with way too much self-awareness.

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Follow the show, leave a rating, and send this to the friend who also has a full-body reaction to gym culture.

Thanks for being here. We’re glad you found us.

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🎉 Welcome back to Born This Weigh!

We’re Kari and Lisa, two moms who’ve lost a combined 165+ 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, and the stuff that sticks long after gym class ends.

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This week, we’re getting into the Oscars, Kathy Bates, and the return of thin chic.

🏆 The Oscars, Red Carpets & Impossible Beauty Standards
We talk about why women still cannot just show up to an event without being picked apart, polished up, and turned into a public conversation. From styling to scrutiny to the pressure to look ageless on command, the whole thing feels exhausting.

📸 Kathy Bates, Edited Photos & Women Aging in Public
We get into the conversation around Kathy Bates and the edited photos making the rounds after the Oscars, plus what it says about how brutal the beauty standard still is, especially for older women. Because apparently even arriving is not enough. You also have to be digitally sanded down first.

👠 Thin Chic, GLP-1 Culture & The Vibe Shift
We also talk about whether thin chic is fully back, how celebrity culture keeps recycling the same body ideals, and why this particular era feels like old beauty pressure in a newer, shinier package.

If you have ever looked at a red carpet and thought, cool, cool, love being a woman in public, this episode is for you.

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💛 Your life does not start later. Thanks for being here.

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