#133: Healing from Weight Stigma and Diet Culture with Kai Hibbard, "Biggest Loser" Contestant Turned Anti-Diet Activist
Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison
Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2017
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Past Biggest Loser contestant and current anti-diet trailblazer Kai Hibbard joins us this week to talk about the negative effect of weight bias and stigma on larger-bodied folks, her journey from disordered eating to Health at Every Size activist, the social determinants of health and her desire to change the face of public health, the power of anger in our anti-diet journeys, and so much more! PLUS, Christy answers a listener question about how ethical food choices and rejecting diet culture can coexist.
Kai was first cast into the spotlight through her participation in, and subsequent denunciation of the weight loss game show The Biggest Loser. Going through the program, she realized the negative impact the show had, not only on her own life, but on society in general. Vowing to be part of the solution rather than part of the problem. Kai has fought, often as the lone voice, against unrealistic and damaging message in the media regarding our bodies in general. Over time that struggle has been featured in countless magazines and newscasts, both domestically and internationally, ranging from The Huffington Post, Time Magazine, Good Morning America, ABC News, CBS News, E!, Star Magazine, US Weekly, People, TMZ, The NY Times, The NY Post, Inside Edition, Redbook, Access Hollywood, FoxNews,The Globe, Jezebel, Huffington Post Live and Upworthy, where Kai's honest, straight forward approach to her own story never fails to shine through. Find her online at KaiHibbard.com.
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| 0:44.8 | Welcome to Food Psych, a podcast about intuitive eating, health at every size, and body liberation. |
| 0:50.8 | I'm your host, Kristi Harrison, and I'm an anti-diad registered dietitian and certified intuitive eating counselor, |
| 0:56.8 | offering online courses and programs to help people all over the world make peace with food. |
| 1:01.8 | Join me here every week as I talk with interesting people from all walks of life about their relationships with food and their bodies. |
| 1:21.8 | Hey there, welcome to episode 133 of Food Psych. |
| 1:26.8 | I'm your host, Kristi Harrison, and today I'm talking with Kai Hibberd, a former biggest loser contestant and current anti-diad activist. |
| 1:33.8 | We talked about the negative effects of weight bias and stigma on larger body people. |
| 1:38.8 | Kai's journey from disordered eater to health at every size and anti-diad activist, the social determinants of health, |
| 1:45.8 | and how they affect people's well-being, and so much more, so I can't wait to share our conversation with you in just a moment. |
| 1:50.8 | But first I'll answer this week's listener question, which is from a listener named Emily, who writes, |
| 1:55.8 | Hi Kristi, I love your show and appreciate the work you do. Here's my question. |
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