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Welcome to Food Psych, a podcast about intuitive eating, health at every size,

body liberation, and taking down diet culture. I'm your host christiharrison and I'm an

anti-diet, registered dietitian, certified intuitive eating counselor, and author of the forthcoming

book Anti-Diet, reclaim your time, money, well-being, and happiness through intuitive eating,

which is available for pre-order now. Join me here every week as I talk with interesting people

from all walks of life about their relationships with food and their bodies. And by the way,

on this show we bleep out diet culture stuff like weight and calorie numbers, but we don't censor

swear words or other adult language, so listener discretion is advised.

Hey there, welcome to episode 2 10 of Food Psych. I'm your host christiharrison.com.

And today I'm talking with Jay Apreleo, a fat activist and founder of the website,

Comfy Fat. We discuss how to find comfort in a larger body without weight loss,

super important topic, right? How improving accessibility for fat people can benefit people

of all sizes? How fat phobia shows up in progressive spaces and in healthcare? How Jay learned

to embrace their non-binary identity without shrinking their body? And so much more, it's a great

conversation. I can't wait to share it with you in just a moment. But first I'll answer this

week's listener question, which is from a listener named Marie, who writes,

I recently have found out that I have plantar fasciitis. When I've looked up the causes and

treatments, weight gain slash weight loss is something that I consistently see coming up.

I've been recovering over the last few years from several years of eating disorders and

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