🎉 Welcome back to Born This Weigh!

We’re Kari and Lisa, two moms who’ve lost a combined 150 pounds and are still unpacking the wiring that came with growing up as the fat kid. This is the podcast where we talk about body image, diet culture, identity shifts, and the stuff that sticks long after gym class ends.

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This week, we’re asking a question that might hit a little too close to home:

Were you the funny fat friend?

🎭 Built a Personality So No One Would Notice
 At some point, being “the funny one” stopped being random and started being strategy. We talk about using humor as camouflage, becoming the safe sidekick, and building charm so no one would look too closely at our bodies.

😂 Trauma-Based Humor & Survival Tactics
 Self-deprecating jokes. Emotional support energy. Being “one of the guys.” We unpack how humor becomes armor and what it feels like when you start outgrowing the version of you that was built for survival.

📺 Shame Is Not a Weight Loss Plan
 We also call out the rise of shame-based messaging in weight loss spaces. If hating yourself actually worked, most of us would have been healed decades ago. Acceptance might not be flashy, but it is a lot hotter than self-loathing.

If you’ve ever been cast as the comic relief before you understood your own body, this episode will feel uncomfortably familiar.

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