[Repost] #210: Finding Comfort in a Larger Body with J Aprileo, Fat Activist and Founder of Comfy Fat

Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison

Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS

Health, Food, Bodypositive, Antidiet, Recovery, Fat, Dietculture, Weight, Eating, Positivity, Intuitive, Diet, Nutrition, Psychology, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Body

4.7 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2022

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Fat activist and Comfy Fat founder J Aprileo joins us to discuss how to find comfort in a larger body without weight loss; how improving accessibility for fat people can benefit people of all sizes; how fatphobia shows up in progressive spaces and in healthcare; the intersections of gender identity, body size, and body acceptance; learning to embrace their nonbinary identity without shrinking their body; and so much more! Plus, Christy answers a listener question about how to deal with plantar fasciitis (and why weight loss is NOT the answer). (This episode originally aired on October 21, 2019.)

J is a nonbinary freelance writer and the founder of Comfy Fat, a site dedicated to sharing resources for plus-size people, trans advocacy, and the intersections of size and gender. J creates content not only to help make the world a little more accessible for fat folks, but also to try and just be the representation they wish they'd had growing up. They live in the midwest with their partner Corissa of Fat Girl Flow, two lovely pups, and one very independent calico cat. Find them online at ComfyFat.com.

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0:00.0	Hey there.
0:01.4	So the podcast is currently on an extended hiatus so that I can write my next book and work
0:06.9	on some other exciting projects.
0:09.0	But while we're away, I hope you'll enjoy this fan favorite episode from the archives.
0:13.9	If you want brand new content to help you make peace with food and heal from diet culture,
0:19.4	come sign up for my free weekly newsletter at christieherrisand.com slash newsletter, where
0:24.8	I answer a weekly listener question.
0:27.7	And as always, if you join my intuitive eating fundamentals course at christieherrisand.com slash
0:32.9	course, you get access to our exclusive monthly Q&A podcast where I answer all your new questions.
0:40.2	Just go to christieherrisand.com slash newsletter and christieherrisand.com slash course to sign
0:45.8	up or click the links in the episode description.
0:49.7	Welcome to food psych, a podcast about intuitive eating, health at every size, body liberation
0:56.1	and taking down diet culture.
0:58.8	I'm your host christieherrisand and I'm an anti diet registered dietitian, certified intuitive
1:04.1	eating counselor and author of the book anti diet, reclaim your time, money, well being
1:09.9	and happiness through intuitive eating, which is available wherever books are sold.
1:15.5	Join me here every week as I interview interesting people from all different backgrounds about
1:20.2	their paths toward peace with food and their bodies.
1:23.8	And by the way, on this show we bleep out diet culture stuff like weight and calorie numbers,
1:29.2	but we don't censor swear words or other adult language, so listener discretion is advised.
1:59.8	Hey there, welcome to episode two 10 of food psych.
2:03.0	I'm your host christieherrisand and today I'm talking with j apprelayow, a fat activist
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