Fantastical Fatty Podcast

Body Liberation through Fitness with Damali FraiserMany people are moving to position body neutrality over body positivity and Damali believes it's both/and. As Damali says, "We are never just one thing and just as I am a fat black woman that may not always like every aspect of my "both", I wants to seek anything but neutrality when comes to my body!" In this episode we dive into:Defining body neutrality, body positivity and how in the end it's more so about body liberationHow we can ach...

REWRITING THE BOOK ON PLUS-SIZE RUNNING!MARTINUS EVANS | @300POUNDSANDRUNNINGIn a world where fat athletes are excluded from races, training, clothing, and all other forms of representation ... it just takes one crappy comment from a troll to piss someone like Martinus off enough to create his own size-inclusive world for plus-size runners!Martinus Says..."You need to have delusional self-belief. You have to believe in yourself so much, so hard that anybody else around you thinks you're crazy...

FORGET SOCIETY'S BODY STANDARDS AND FIND BODY JOY!FIERCE AND CURVY EMPIRE | @fierceandcurvyempireAt a certain point, we just have to stop giving a crap about other people's opinions (seriously, who cares?) and forget about trying to fit into society's beauty standards for the sake of finding our own body joy! Only then can we start to confidently take up space and be the best version of ourselves...the version that's changing the freaking world!Queen K Says..."Taking up space is not giving a ...

IT'S OK TO BE FAT AND JOYFUL!SOPHIA APOSTOL | @FATJOY.LIFEYour body isn't broken and your fatness doesn't need fixing. It's the systems that need to change! It's ok to be fat and you don't need to change your body to be able to create fat joy in your life.Sophia Says..."Our bodies are not the problem. The systems need to be fixed." It's taken Sophia a lifetime to release her ties to toxic weight-loss culture, embrace her fat body, and dare to take up space in the body she has now. The bo...

HOW BODY CONFIDENCE HELPS YOU TAKE UP SPACEKELSEY JONES | @KBTHEWANNABKelsey Jones, alt fat baddie with a passion for makeup and helping others love the skin they're in by showing off her own with no apologies, tells us how to have body confidence so we can take up space and love ourselves no matter what we look like!Kelsey Says..."In the self-love journey, no step is too small, as long as it's going in the right direction."Before Kelsey was an alt fat baddie sharing drool-worthy makeup and f...

WHY FAT RUNNERS NEED TO STOP DIETINGMIA BRAITHWAITE | @THE_FAT_ATHLETEPlus Size Running Coach, Mia Braithwaite, brings the heat as she challenges common myths around being a fat runner, plus size athlete, running for weight loss (hint: it's not gonna work), joyful movement, anti-fat bias in medicine, what a runner's body looks like and how to get started running in a fat body. Whew!Mia Says..."Weight cycling causes harm to your body and to your fitness goals. You cannot maintain a caloric def...

WHY FAT JOY MATTERS IN PLUS SIZE ROMANCE NOVELSALEXIS MANESS | @AUTHORALEXISCMANESSFat people are so much more than their bodies and they deserve to see themselves experiencing joy, romance, adventures, and success no matter the size of their bodies!Alexis Says..."You deserve to be seen in a positive way in media. You have every right to be there and seek that out and advocate for yourself to have that."Plus-size romance novels are missing the mark with it comes to writing fat characters with...

Welcome to the Fantastical Fatty Podcast, where we celebrate fat baddies challenging fat phobic stereotypes, smashing anti-fat narratives, and changing the freaking world for fatties like you and me. I'm your host, Lindsay Johnson, aka @fantasticalfatty. I'm a fat joy activist, fat liberationist, and fat fitness lover.I'm here to remind you that you're allowed to love every inch of your fat body, take up space and live your best fat baddie life.What that means is I will not sleep, I wil...