S3 E6: How to Stop Fighting Food
It can seem impossible to break out of the cycle of dieting and binging, but health coach Isabel Foxen Duke found the key at the end of what she calls her “final binge.” And the answer isn’t more dieting! Virgie and Isabel talk about “radical hopelessness,” why Nutella is the ultimate anti-diet food, and why dieting - not binging - is the real coping mechanism.
S3 E5: Horny For Healing: Body Positive Dating Advice
Virgie talks with disability justice advocate Alex Locust (aka Glamputee) about dating and intimacy.
S3 E4: Trails Not Scales with Fat Girls Hiking
Virgie and Summer Michaud-Skog talk about fat erasure from fitness spaces, the new (fat positive!) rules of hiking, and the simple joy of petting moss.
S3 E3: How to Raise Food-Positive Kids with Ginny Jones
Parenting coach Ginny Jones talks with Virgie about how parents can learn how to raise food-positive kids — and how we all can heal after growing up in a fatphobic or food-restrictive environment.
S3 E2: The Punk Art of Saying F-U to Diet Culture
Vishinna Turner tells Virgie about growing up fat, Black, and punk in Fresno, CA. Spoiler alert: it wasn’t easy! But Vishinna also shares how art and friendship saved her life and helped her on the path to self love.
S3 E1: Fat and Happy with Laurie Santos
Does Weight-Loss Lead to Happiness? Virgie talks to Happiness Lab host Laurie Santos about harmful happiness myths like "the perfect body" that contribute to diet culture, and Laurie tells Virgie how the science of happiness can be used to fight them.