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Diet Center, Weight Watchers, The Cabbage Diet, AIDS Candy (what were they THINKING?!!?), Paleo, Atkins, Keto, Zone, Clone, Dunken, Dukin'... we were watching our weight, or trying, but who was watching US? We lost control and gained control and went insane then sat and cried with a our best friends, Ben and Jerry.

Oh Shit, I Forgot to Eat Right tells stories about food. From medicating with food, anorexia turned into healthy eating, or the moment we decided to nourish ourselves instead of binging. We’ve got two fantastic storytellers, Ivy Eisenberg (The Moth, Generation Women, The Artichoke) and Fabiana Mattedi (East Side Stories, How It was Show, TALE).

Fabiana Mattedi is a Brazilian actress and writer with a dance background based in New York City. She just performed her solo show Notes on Collagen, a comedic and intimate exploration of identity, aging, and self-worth. She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress by the Brazilian International Press Awards for Clarice's honor in 2017. And in 2018, she was part of Inside the Wild Heart, an immersive theatrical experience based on Clarice Le Spector's work and directed by Linda Weiss. In 2024, Fabiana starred in the true crime series Sins of the South, now streaming on the Oxygen True Crime platform. In 2025, she had her debut on Broadway in an off-Broadway production of Wedding Dress by iconic Brazilian playwright Nelson Rodriguez. Among her upcoming projects, she will also be producing a short film based on her story, My Tiny Love Story.

Ivy Eisenberg is an award-winning humor writer, moth story slam-winning storyteller, comedian and story coach. Ivy has written, produced, and performed two original solo shows: Loud, Large, and Funny, and You Would Cry Too. Her work has appeared in New York magazine, Tablet, Narratively, Next Avenue, Business Insider, Chicken Soup for the Soul, and more. Ivy leads storytelling workshops for corporations, nonprofit institutions, and the public. She is working on a memoir about growing up in the groovy and turbulent 1960s in far Rockaway, Queens, New York, and she fuels her passions with coffee and IT consulting.

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This episode was recorded July, 2025.