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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.

#eating #eatingright #eatingrecovery #over50 #ohshitim50

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As we've gotten older, Dr. Google has become a dear, dear friend. Be honest, become an administrative assistant. When did that happen? Those joints are creaking, those knees are crunching, it's gotten to the point that we're buying holiday gifts for our specialists! Dinners with friends go from dates we had last Friday night to the MRI we're having next Wednesday!

This week on Oh Shit! I'm 50! host Adrianne Frost, and storytellers Eric Vetter and Melinda Buckley are talking about those illnesses that creep up when we least expect it, and maybe when we kinda do (why didn't I do those squats?!!?). And knowing, in the end, we've got you, my friends. We're here for you. And your back pain...

Eric Vetter has been a fixture in the New York City storytelling and comedy scene for over 30 years. He's the host of No Name in a Bag of Chips, New York City's longest-running comedy variety show at Otto Shrunken Head monthly, and the host of the No Name New York City podcast. He's the lead singer of the Summer Replacements. He co-hosts the Word Up Super Story Party at the Word Up Community Bookshop in Washington Heights every month, a very popular storytelling show up in the Bronx.

Melinda Buckley is currently an executive coach/speech writer for the Port of LA and has written and performed several solo shows, her latest being, MOTHER (and me), which premiered in the NYFringe Festival where it had a sold out run and has been running regionally ever since. She has appeared on Broadway and National tours including Crazy For You, A Chorus Line and Bob Fosse’s revival of Sweet Charity. She performed improv and sketch with Gotham City Improv and Chicago City Limits, and has appeared as a stand up at Caroline’s, Stand-Up NY, and Gotham Comedy Club. For the big screen, she choreographed the musical sequences for Columbia Pictures’, Stuart Little I and II, and the independent film 1999. She assisted Pat Birch for many years on films, such as Working Girl as well as many episodes of Saturday Night Live, and Lonny Price in the filming of Stephen Sondheim’s Company at the NY Philharmonic.

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The sky is clear, the path is smooth, the bills are up to date, your relationships are going, let’s say decently. Then sometimes life decides to hit you like a shit ton of bricks. Maybe it was that wedgie that Kevin Smart gave you in front of PE class in second grade, or the real reason your dearest friend no longer speaks to you.

Today on Oh Shit! I Just Remembered I Have Trauma, host Adrianne Frost and storytellers Kambri Crews and Tracey Starin takes some serious and not so serious looks at coming through and kinda staying stuck in those memories that break on through when you least expect it.

Oh, and fuck you, Kevin.

Kambri Crews is the Founder of QED in Astoria, Queens, voted the #1 comedy venue in all of NYC by readers of Time Out NY! Author of the NY Times best seller Burn Down the Ground: A Memoir (Penguin Random House). It's available on Bookshop, Amazon.com & Barnes & Noble. Crews has performed at most of NYC's top indie comedy venues, including Joe's Pub, Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, Gotham Comedy Club, Broadway Comedy Club, The Peoples Improv Theater, The Bitter End, Comix NY, and famed literary venue KGB (bar); and at such shows at The Moth, Risk!, Seth Herzog's Sweet, UCBT's School Night, Liam McEneaney's Tell Your Friends, and the NY/LA comedy show Mortified. Kambri has been referred to as a "world-class storyteller".

Tracey Starin is a writer and storyteller from Queens. Her stories can be heard on podcasts such as Story Collider, RISK!, and The Volume Knob, as well as PBS' Stories from the Stage. She has performed on stages all over the greater NYC area, Connecticut, and Massachusetts. Tracey hosts an annual storytelling show at Venture Way Collaborative in Hadley Massachusetts, as well as a monthly storytelling open mic at called Just One More Thing Storytelling Show, on the last Wednesday of the month at Pine Box Rock Shop in Brooklyn.

WARNING: THIS EPISODE CONTAINS MENTION OF SEXUAL, EMOTIONAL & PHYSICAL ABUSE

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