From Taking Ozempic for Weight Loss to Practicing Weight-Inclusive Medicine with Dr. Mara Gordon
Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison
Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Physician and writer Mara Gordon joins us to discuss diet and wellness culture among medical doctors, why she took Ozempic for weight loss (and what made her quit), how she came to practice weight-inclusive care, and lots more. Behind the paywall, we get into why she was initially reluctant to write about weight inclusivity, her perspective on Ozempic and other GLP-1s now (and whether she prescribes them to patients), her upcoming book, and more. This episode is cross-posted from our other podcast, Rethinking Wellness.
Dr. Mara Gordon is a family physician and writer based in Philadelphia. She is a frequent contributor to NPR and often writes about size-inclusive medicine, fatphobia in health care, and is at work on a book about body justice. She also writes the Substack newsletter "Chief Complaint" at maragordonmd.substack.com.
Check out Christy’s three books, Anti-Diet, The Wellness Trap, and The Emotional Eating, Chronic Dieting, Binge Eating & Body Image Workbook for a deeper dive into the topics covered on the pod.
If you’re ready to break free from diet culture and make peace with food, come check out Christy's Intuitive Eating Fundamentals online course.
For more critical thinking and compassionate skepticism about wellness and diet culture, check out Christy’s Rethinking Wellness podcast! You can also sign up to get it in your inbox every week at rethinkingwellness.substack.com.
Ask a question about diet and wellness culture, disordered-eating recovery, and the anti-diet approach for a chance to have it answered on Rethinking Wellness. You can also subscribe to the Food Psych Weekly newsletter to check out previous answers!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Food Psych, a podcast dedicated to critiquing diet and wellness culture and answering your |
| 0:05.0 | questions about intuitive eating and the anti-diet approach. I'm your host Christy Harrison, |
| 0:09.4 | and I'm a registered dietitian, certified intuitive eating counselor, journalist and author of the book's |
| 0:14.6 | anti-diet, the wellness trap, and the new emotional eating, chronic dieting, binge eating, and body |
| 0:20.0 | image workbook, |
| 0:25.4 | which are all available wherever you get your books or at Christy Harrison.com slash books. |
| 0:28.1 | That's Christyharrison.com slash books. |
| 0:32.8 | And by the way, on this show, we avoid diet culture details like weight and calorie numbers, but we don't censor swear words or other adult language, so listener discretion is advised. to my food site. |
| 1:01.0 | Hey there, welcome back to food psych. Today I'm talking with physician and writer Mara Gordon, |
| 1:08.3 | who joins me to discuss diet and wellness culture among medical doctors, |
| 1:12.3 | why she took OZempic for weight loss and what made her quit, how she came to practice weight |
| 1:17.0 | inclusive care, and lots more. Behind the paywall we get into why she was initially reluctant to |
| 1:22.2 | write about weight inclusivity, her perspective on OZempe and other GLP1s now and whether she prescribes them to patients, |
| 1:29.3 | her upcoming book, and more. |
| 1:31.8 | This episode is cross-posted for my other podcast, Rethinking Wellness, |
| 1:35.3 | and I thought it would make a perfect conversation for food psych as well. |
| 1:38.7 | I can't wait to share it with you after these messages. |
| 1:42.3 | Intuitive Eating Fundamentals, the online course I created to help you make peace with food, |
| 1:46.6 | is still open for enrollment for the fall cohort, but only for a limited time. |
| 1:50.7 | The course teaches you how to recognize and reject diet culture, take pleasure in food |
| 1:54.9 | and stop fighting your desires, tune back into your body's signals of hunger and fullness, |
| 2:00.3 | end the restrict rebound cycle, |
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