Ep 51: FAT
Run, Selfie, Repeat
Kelly Roberts
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2017
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
On a car ride back from a family reunion, we listened to episode 589 of This American Life titled "Tell Me I'm Fat". The episode started off with this eye opening statistic-- ⅓ of Americans are classified as overweight and another ⅓ are obese. And then, the four acts went on to pose the idea that maybe it’s time to rethink the way we see being fat.
YES. OF COURSE IT'S TIME TO RETHINK THE WORD FAT. The fact most people who are struggling with their weight, fat or not, struggle with such intense feelings of shame, self loathing, and disgust is unacceptable.
I’ve lost so many years of my life consumed with how much I weighed, convinced that I needed to lose X amount of weight in order to be beautiful or happy. I don't care how many times I have to say it, strength doesn't look a certain way, it feels a certain way.
We don't just need to change the way we feel about the word fat, but we need to change the way we (specifically women) see themselves. Today's episode is a tough one but it's an important one.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, can you hear that sound. |
| 0:05.9 | That's the sound of my heartbreaking. |
| 0:08.3 | Yes, it is. |
| 0:11.6 | Okay, here we go. |
| 0:12.8 | Hey, everybody. |
| 0:14.3 | Welcome to episode 51 of the Run, Selfie Repeat podcast, |
| 0:17.7 | where we talk about life with the side of running. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Kelly Roberts. And today I need |
| 0:23.2 | everyone to take a deep breath because it's going to be one hell of an episode. But before I even |
| 0:32.7 | talk about that, let's just thank the sponsor of the Run, selfie, repeat podcast, Squarespace, because without |
| 0:38.7 | Squarespace, there'd be no run selfie repeat, and I would never, ever, ever have found my voice |
| 0:43.9 | in the running world. |
| 0:46.6 | You know, so much of my story in what I've been through, I tied shame to. |
| 0:50.9 | I hid it all from my struggles with my weight to how often I fall apart still because |
| 0:56.9 | of my grief. I hit it all behind a giant wall and I tried to control what people knew about me |
| 1:03.0 | because I was terrified that I'd be judged or laughed at. I mean, my life was hard enough without |
| 1:09.6 | having people judge me for things that I couldn't control. |
| 1:13.4 | But that all started to change when I started run, selfie, repeat, my blog, because slowly, very slowly, |
| 1:20.3 | I started breaking through the wall and finding strength in places that I once thought made me weak, |
| 1:26.1 | if I'm being honest. And the more I shared, the more I |
| 1:29.7 | realized that I wasn't alone. And today I'm a full-time blogger and podcast host. And had I not |
| 1:36.8 | have launched my blog on Squarespace, I am 100% sure that I would have given up. Making a website |
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