Wait for It is a show about the way we feel about our bodies.

Consequently, each episode may include references to gaining and losing weight,

eating disorders, weight loss surgery, and weight stigma.

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Wait for it. for anyone who may need them in our show notes. I can't remember a time when I wasn't thinking about my weight.

I was a kid with a huge appetite, and I remember the other kids and some adults would always say,

you keep eating like that, you're going to get fat.

I remember in middle school PE whenever we had to play basketball and the coach would yell

out, Shirts for our skins. I immediately hoped to be on the shirt team.

Even in college, I remember my friends used to pinch my nipples and then laugh when I would get upset.

And at any of these individual times, I was objectively not fat.

But with every incident that occurred with my body, it firmly put weight in the forefront of my mind.

I wasn't always certain what it was to have a good body or even an okay body, or most of all how to be okay with my body.

I dreamed of having the ideal physical qualities.

Muscular arms.

I wanted to be tall.

I wanted a beard.

I wanted abs.

I didn't want to be afraid of taking my shirt off.

I wanted to be attractive.

But I knew that being fat wasn't attractive, so I didn't want to be fat.

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