Coming Out As Fat
Coming out as fat is similar to coming out as queer or transgender. Ross Anderson-Doherty’s journey through healthcare discrimination reveals how weight stigma intersects with transphobia and classism to create devastating medical trauma. Their story exposes the urgent need to recognize healthcare bias as the systematic abuse it truly is, while showing that healing and dignity are still possible.
Cameron’s story: Weight Loss Causes Gallstones
After being pressured into weight loss surgery, Cameron developed gallstones—a common complication of rapid weight loss—only to be denied treatment because they were “still too fat.” Learn how the medical system creates health complications through bariatric surgery, then abandons patients when they need follow-up care. It’s time we challenged a healthcare system that uses BMI to deny evidence-based treatment.
Medical Trauma in Our Bodies
Discover evidence-based approaches to heart health without weight loss requirements. Robin’s story reveals how weight stigma impacts cholesterol treatment and cardiovascular care while offering alternatives to the ‘lose weight or die’ narrative
Body Magic: Understanding Somatic Trauma Healing
When talk therapy isn’t enough, somatic trauma healing offers a path forward. In this conversation with Elle Johnston, a ‘body witch’ and trauma resolution practitioner, we explore how trauma lives in our bodies, why we can’t think our way through it, and how reconnecting with our physical selves—through breath, movement, and simply noticing the changing seasons—can lead to profound healing. Discover why your protective responses contain wisdom and how to honor them while finding genuine rest in a disconnected world.
Robin’s Story: Heart Health Without Weight Loss
Discover evidence-based approaches to heart health without weight loss requirements. Robin’s story reveals how weight stigma impacts cholesterol treatment and cardiovascular care while offering alternatives to the ‘lose weight or die’ narrative
Medical Moralism: The Lose Weight Or Die Narrative
Medical moralism transforms heart health from a medical issue into a moral judgment. When healthcare professionals label cholesterol as “good” or “bad” and patients as “compliant” or “non-compliant,” they’re not practicing evidence-based medicine—they’re passing moral judgment. In this post, I expose how the “lose weight or die” narrative serves financial interests while ignoring the real social determinants of health. Learn how metabolic markers have become moral measuring sticks rather than clinical data points, and discover why your cardiovascular risk isn’t a personal failing but the complex interplay of factors beyond individual control. Challenge the framework that positions health as a moral obligation and illness as a moral failure.
Neurodivergent Feeding Relationships And Weight Inclusivity
Dr. Molly Moffat’s approach challenges deeply ingrained norms about “proper” eating. “The goal is never for a child to eat more pieces of carrots,” she emphasized. “The goal is for the child to be as safe as they can around food.” Her work offers families an alternative to the shame-based, restriction-focused advice that dominates conventional healthcare, addressing the intersection of neurodivergence, food relationships, and weight inclusivity.
Charlie’s Story: Finding IIH Treatment Without Weight Loss
For months Charlie struggled with debilitating headaches and vision problems that were eventually diagnosed as Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension (IIH). And that’s when the real trouble started. Instead of receiving evidence-based medical treatment, Charlie was simply told to lose weight – a prescription that provided no relief and created new health problems. Charlie’s story reveals the harmful consequences of weight-centric healthcare and explores how effective IIH treatment without weight loss requirements is both possible and necessary.
World Obesity Day: Challenging the Narrative of a “Weight Crisis”
World Ob*sity Day frames fatness as a global health crisis, but I argue the opposite: the real health crisis is weight stigma and weight cycling. As a physician who has studied the evidence deeply, I can tell you that the continued medicalization of fat bodies directly contributes to harmful weight cycling, discrimination in healthcare, and internalized shame that genuinely damages health. Despite the World Ob*sity Federation’s attempt to shift blame to “systems,” they still fundamentally pathologize body diversity. It’s time to challenge this narrative with evidence-based approaches that address the true causes of health disparities.
Weight-Inclusive Diabetes Care
n this eye-opening conversation, Dra. Mónica Peralta shares powerful insights on weight-inclusive diabetes care across cultures. From exposing how medical professionals perpetuate harmful weight stigma to her fierce critique of World Ob*sity Day as “a day to eradicate a type of human being,” Dra. Peralta challenges healthcare’s status quo while offering hope through her work with AWSIM (Association for Weight and Size Inclusive Medicine).