🎉 Welcome back to Born This Weigh!

We’re Kari and Lisa, two moms, 150+ pounds lighter, still untangling what it means to live fully in bodies that are changing — in a culture that makes January feel like an open season on fat bodies.

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This week’s episode centers around three very real January conversations:

📅 January Diet Culture
Why January is the loudest, most exhausting month to exist in a bigger body. From targeted ads and gym chaos to “new year, new me” small talk, we unpack why wellness season always turns into weight surveillance — and why it hits harder than people admit.

💉 Starting GLP-1s
Lisa shares why she decided to start GLP-1s as a tool for food noise and binging, the complicated feelings that come with it, and why other people’s opinions about bodies (especially fat bodies) are never actually about health. We talk sovereignty, stigma, and what people get wrong about willpower.

🌀 A Wild Plot Twist
Just when the episode feels gets in the groove… things escalate. One of us makes a decision that absolutely no one saw coming — including us — and it changes how we’re thinking about training, nourishment, and what our bodies are capable of next.

We also talk gym anxiety, TikTok cringe, food noise as a mental battle, January bingo-card moments, and what freedom actually feels like when you stop fighting yourself all day.

If January makes you feel exposed, judged, or like your body suddenly became public property, this episode is for you.

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🎉 Welcome back to Born This Weigh!

We’re Kari and Lisa, two moms, 150+ pounds lighter, still untangling what it means to live fully in bodies that are changing, in a culture that taught us to wait until we were “fixed.”

🚨 We’re officially on Patreon. Join The Club:
https://patreon.com/bornthisweighpod

This week’s episode focuses on three very real conversations:

📺 Stranger Things’ Derek
What Derek’s character brings up about fear, survival, and being the one who cannot keep up, how fat bodies are portrayed in high stakes stories, and why those moments still hit so close to home.

✨ 2026 Intentions Without the New Year BS
Why we’re done with punishment goals, how we’re approaching 2026 with intention instead of control, and what it looks like to stop waiting for a “better” version of yourself to begin living.

🎭 Aidy Bryant
Why Aidy Bryant remains our blueprint for living now. From Shrill to SNL, we talk representation, visibility, and what changes when fat women are allowed to be full, complex humans on screen.

We also talk concert crying as nervous system regulation, body image, identity shifts, and why joy does not require permission.

If you’ve ever felt like you were holding your breath until the scale changed, this episode is for you.

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💛 Your life doesn’t start later. Thanks for being here.

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Support the show

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🎙 Thanks for listening to Born This Weigh — new episodes every Tues!

🎉 Welcome back to Born This Weigh!

We’re Kari and Lisa, two moms, 150+ pounds lighter, still untangling what it means to love ourselves in a world that never missed a chance to body-shame us.

This week’s episode dives into:

💧 Hydration for Weight Loss
Why drinking water is somehow harder than it should be, how dehydration messes with hunger cues, cravings, energy, and workouts, and whether hydration actually helps with weight loss or just makes you pee more.

🧂 Electrolytes & What Actually Works
WaterTok rage, homemade electrolyte mixes, potassium and magnesium, carbonation cravings, and the debate over what counts as “real water” when you’re trying to feel better, run farther, and stop relying on soda for survival.

🎙 A Look Back on 2025
What it really took to launch this podcast, learn new tools on the fly, get over the fear of putting ourselves online, and why hearing “I thought I was the only one” from listeners changed everything. The wins, the hard parts, and what we’re taking with us into the new year.

If you’re trying to reset without doing a cliche New Year’s resolution, struggling with hydration, or wondering what actually helped us stay consistent this year, this one’s for you.

💛 Hydration habits, electrolyte chaos, and a real-life weight loss year in review. Let’s get into it.

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