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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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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 healing, food, family, and the chaos of a real-life wellness journey, you’re in the right place.

🌪️ In this episode:
we talk about tornadoes, storm anxiety, and the weird beauty of severe weather. One of us found awe in the sky. The other found fresh reasons to spiral.

✈️ Also in this episode:
Southwest’s Customer of Size policy, flying while fat, plus-size travel stress, and why air travel still feels so humiliating and hostile for bigger bodies. We get into the rage, the logistics, and the emotional whiplash of trying to exist in systems that were clearly not built for you.

😵‍💫 We also get into:
travel anxiety, body image triggers, public discomfort, and the very specific exhaustion of having to think ten steps ahead just to get on a plane.

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🎉 Welcome back to Born This Weigh!

We’re Kari and Lisa, two moms who’ve lost a combined 150 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 diving into a topic that is suddenly everywhere:

What is it actually like trying to access GLP-1 medications right now?

💊 The GLP-1 Access Maze
Lisa reveals where she gets her GLP-1 medications, and let’s just say the process had more twists than basic medical care should require. We talk about navigating prescriptions, telehealth, insurance hurdles, and the confusing reality of compounding pharmacies.

Along the way, we get into the medications everyone keeps hearing about — semaglutide and tirzepatide, plus the brand names flooding the news cycle like Ozempic, Wegovy, Zepbound, and Mounjaro — and why actually getting access to them can feel way more complicated than it should be.

From shortages to price tags to the rise of compounded semaglutide and compounded tirzepatide, the whole system is… kind of a maze.

📉 Apparently GLP-1s Are Taking Down Entire Industries
Airlines are thrilled, snack companies are panicking, and liquor brands might want to sit down for this one. We talk about the bizarre cultural moment where medications like Ozempic, Wegovy, Zepbound, and Mounjaro are changing not just individual bodies, but entire industries.

If you’ve been curious about GLP-1 medications, semaglutide, tirzepatide, compounding pharmacies, or what the process of actually getting these medications looks like in real life, this episode will probably feel very familiar.

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We’re Kari and Lisa, two moms who’ve lost a combined 150 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 asking a question that might hit a little too close to home:

Were you the funny fat friend?

🎭 Built a Personality So No One Would Notice
At some point, being “the funny one” stopped being random and started being strategy. We talk about using humor as camouflage, becoming the safe sidekick, and building charm so no one would look too closely at our bodies.

😂 Trauma-Based Humor & Survival Tactics
Self-deprecating jokes. Emotional support energy. Being “one of the guys.” We unpack how humor becomes armor and what it feels like when you start outgrowing the version of you that was built for survival.

📺 Shame Is Not a Weight Loss Plan
We also call out the rise of shame-based messaging in weight loss spaces. If hating yourself actually worked, most of us would have been healed decades ago. Acceptance might not be flashy, but it is a lot hotter than self-loathing.

If you’ve ever been cast as the comic relief before you understood your own body, this episode will feel uncomfortably familiar.

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🎉 Welcome back to Born This Weigh!

We’re Kari and Lisa, two moms, 160+ pounds lighter, still untangling what it means to live fully in bodies that are changing after a lifetime of diet culture, public commentary, and learning to scan every room for proof we don’t belong.

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This week’s episode dives into Netflix’s #1 documentary and involves a full conversation about fashion, identity, and shopping trauma.

📺 America’s Next Top Model & Reality TV Cruelty
We watched Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model and had a lot to say. From fat shaming and public weigh-ins to “it was the times” defenses, we unpack what it was like to rewatch a cultural phenomenon that shaped body image for an entire generation.

🛍️ Plus-Size Fashion & Shopping Trauma
Kari is down 90 pounds and walked into a store to try straight sizes for the first time, and her nervous system said absolutely not. We talk fitting room panic, avoiding entire sections of stores, and how decades of exclusion do not disappear just because the number on the tag changes.

🧠 New Body, Old Brain
Why weight loss does not automatically delete the old wiring. We get into proof-seeking, spiral texts, and how hard it is to believe you belong even when you technically fit.

If you have ever stood in a dressing room questioning your identity or watched early 2000s reality TV and thought, how did we normalize this, this one is for you.

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🎉 Welcome back to Born This Weigh!

We’re Kari and Lisa, two moms who’ve lost a combined 150 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 with you long after gym class ends.

In this episode, we’re talking about fat-shaming and how it starts way earlier than most people think.

🏀 “Use Your Size” at 12 Years Old
Kari was at a kids' basketball game when a coach yelled “use your size” at a bigger kid. If you were ever the fat kid, you know how jarring that was. We break down how comments like that shape identity before puberty even finishes.

🎒 Growing Up Fat-Shamed
From gym class roles to being labeled “the big one,” we talk about how fat-shaming rarely says the word “fat” out loud. It sounds like strategy. It sounds like compliments. It sounds like “strong.” And it sticks.

🏈 That Halftime Mike Tyson Ad
We also get into the halftime Super Bowl ad featuring Mike Tyson and why the tough-love messaging around “getting strong” felt very familiar. Is it motivation? Is it shame? When does health messaging cross into humiliation?

If your body got labeled before you even hit puberty, this one’s for you.

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🎉 Welcome back to Born This Weigh!

We’re Kari and Lisa — two moms, 150+ pounds lighter, still untangling what it means to live fully in bodies that are changing after a lifetime of diet culture, food noise and learning not to trust ourselves.

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This week’s episode starts with a confession: Lisa has never seen The Goonies. Kari, aggressively disappointed in her co‑host’s childhood, insists on a watch — and what follows is a candid conversation about fat jokes, pool avoidance and the media we grew up with.

• 🎬 Fat Shaming in The Goonies – We celebrate the film’s iconic adventure while cringing at how the “fat kid” is the punchline, especially the infamous truffle shuffle scene.
• 🌊 Hating Water – Why do so many of us avoid water? We unpack water aversion, from childhood insecurities to how body image and weight influence our comfort (or discomfort) with swimming and getting in the pool.
• 📺 Media We Loved That Stings Now – Beyond The Goonies, we ask: What other shows and movies we adored growing up make us wince today? How do we reconcile nostalgia with our growth and new awareness?

If you’ve ever rewatched a childhood favorite and felt conflicted, or you’ve struggled with water and body image, this episode is for you.

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🎉 Welcome back to Born This Weigh!

We’re Kari and Lisa, two moms, 150+ pounds lighter, still untangling what it means to live fully in bodies that are changing — after a lifetime of diet culture, food noise, and learning not to trust ourselves.

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This week’s episode tackles one of the loudest diet culture lies of all....

that restriction = success.

🥩 Keto in Public & Diet Absurdity
Keto is cute until you try to exist in public and order food like a normal person. From restaurant panic to butter math, we unpack why ultra-restrictive diets collapsed for us the second real life showed up.

🍟 Fast Food Guilt & Food Morality
Why eating fast food is not a moral failing and sometimes dinner is just Tuesday night. We talk about how food gets moralized, why that shame sticks, and how it quietly sabotages long-term weight loss.

🥔 Restriction vs Restraint & Deprogramming Carb Fear
We break down the difference between restriction and restraint, why “I could have it” is a secret weapon, and why we are officially deprogramming fear of carbs — starting with potatoes, our beloved.

We also talk real-life weight loss, GLP-1s, plus-size fitness, identity shifts, and what it looks like to build trust with yourself instead of fighting your body forever.

If you’re navigating weight loss while still living a real life, this episode is for you.

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