Help! My Partner Keeps Commenting on My Weight
Diabetes Digital Podcast by Food Heaven
Wendy Lopez, Jessica Jones
4.9 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
What should you do when your partner makes negative comments about your weight or food choices? Some people might say “dump them” but this may not be helpful for someone who wants to find ways to make the relationship work. Today we’re talking through this with Ragen Chastain, a speaker, writer, trained researcher, Certified Health Coach, and thought leader in Weight Science, Weight Stigma, and the Health at Every Size paradigm.
In This Episode We’ll Cover:
- Red flags that your partner is fatphobic
- How online dating photos can tell a lot about a partner’s view on body image
- Ways to constructively bring up body conversations with your partner
- Setting boundaries for weight and body talk
- When it’s time to leave the relationship + MORE!
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Transcript
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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 | Welcome back everyone. |
| 0:23.2 | I am over the moon about today's episode because I feel like we've all |
| 0:29.9 | been there, especially like with dating. |
| 0:34.3 | Jess and I have spoken about this so much where a lot of people have a lot of |
| 0:39.2 | issues and internalize issues about their weight, their eating habits, and they |
| 0:44.0 | tend to project that onto their partner or the person that they're dating. |
| 0:48.5 | And so I was really interested in covering this topic today. |
| 0:52.2 | We're going to be talking about how to navigate when the person you're |
| 0:56.4 | dating or your intimate partner or even your friend is fat phobic or they're |
| 1:02.0 | just immersed in siding, weight loss. |
| 1:06.4 | So kind of like how you navigate that because I feel like, I don't know, |
| 1:11.7 | I feel like our go-to response is like just leave that person but |
| 1:15.1 | it's not as straightforward as it sounds. |
| 1:19.1 | Like it could get really complicated and tricky. |
| 1:21.6 | So we're going to be talking to Reagan Chastain about this who's been on our |
| 1:25.4 | podcast before. |
| 1:26.9 | Yes, this is something that we have all been through and sometimes you don't |
| 1:30.8 | even realize you're in a relationship where either you or the person has |
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