Help! My Doctor Keeps Telling Me to Lose Weight w/ Ragen Chastain
Diabetes Digital Podcast by Food Heaven
Wendy Lopez, Jessica Jones
4.9 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Fatphobia is rampant in the medical community. Doctors and providers are notorious for prescribing weight loss for everything from acid reflux to joint pain. The problem is, this weight loss advice is not only misguided... it's outright harmful. Today on the podcast, we are joined by Ragen Chastain, a speaker, Certified Health Coach, and thought leader in Weight Science, Weight Stigma, and the Health at Every Size paradigm. Ragen sheds light on her experience in fat activism and gives us pointers on how to go into a doctor’s office prepared with a litany of clap backs to help decenter weight from your treatment plan.
In This Episode We’ll Cover:
- How to find a medical provider that is aligned with your weight inclusive values
- What to do when you feel like your doctor is discriminating based on your weight
- Harm Reduction Techniques in the doctor’s office
- Ragen’s super helpful HAES Health Sheets
- & MORE!
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a deer media production. |
| 0:03.0 | Hi, I'm Wendy. |
| 0:04.1 | And I'm Jess and you're listening to the Food Heaven Podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | Your online resource for inclusive and accessible wellness. |
| 0:21.2 | Do we have an episode for y'all today? |
| 0:25.0 | This is something that we created out of popular demand. |
| 0:29.6 | And we are going to be talking with Reagan Chastain, |
| 0:33.8 | who is a speaker, a writer, a trained researcher, a certified health coach, |
| 0:38.6 | and a thought leader in weight science, weight stigma, |
| 0:41.2 | and the health that every size paradigm. |
| 0:44.1 | Reagan is a wealth of information. |
| 0:46.6 | I am always using her resources with my clients. |
| 0:49.1 | And there's so much we can talk about with her. |
| 0:51.2 | But in today's episode, we are going to focus specifically on medical fat |
| 0:56.4 | phobia, medical weight stigma, and how to advocate for yourself in the doctor's office. |
| 1:02.8 | Yeah, we covered a lot in this episode. |
| 1:05.4 | We're going to talk about how you can feel out of provider |
| 1:08.2 | to make sure that they align with your needs. |
| 1:10.9 | Also, what to say when your doctor comes at you with fat phobic comments |
| 1:15.8 | or when they're centering your weight, |
| 1:18.0 | when you go in for doctor's visits. |
| 1:20.3 | Reagan has so many resources available. |
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