r/MaintenancePhase

I’m not even sure how to start here other than the fact that my kid went to a school event today for Earth Day and one of the educational things being presented was how individual people need to eat less food so there will be less food waste because food waste goes into the landfill and causes greenhouse gases.

First of all, it is patently untrue that individual people’s eating habits are the cause of the majority of food waste. Most is due to the food industry and the restaurant industry and the amount of edible food destroyed by supermarkets because they don’t sell it by the sell by date.

Secondly, it is not cool to guilt trip children by telling them to stop eating or they are killing the planet. No matter what, this is an adult problem and kids should not feel bad about eating food.

We talked a bit about it, but it still sucks that this is the kind of message being communicated.

Has anyone else seen this kind of “educational” outreach?

I would really love an episode about the science behind being able to accept other people’s fat bodies and not your own. Surely this can be explained by some psychology expert.

Here's some background:

Two of my friends are going on weight loss journeys. They’re both doing restrictive diets. It’s been mentioned many times on the pod before, but these diets often don't work, and you can end up weighing more because your metabolism changes. I’ve recommended the pod to both of them several times, but they’re not interested.

I just feel sad that my friends don’t like their bodies as they are. I weigh significantly more than both of them, and I know they both have zero issues with my body. Their fatphobia is completely aimed at themselves, and it’s just really frustrating. It’s like a type of cognitive dissonance that makes them accepting of every fat body except their own.

Someone here recommended Diabolical Lies Skinny Apocalypse here and all I can say is thank you.

It's a whole new way to look at the growing trend of very thin women that I really needed to hear.

Body shaming is body shaming no matter what the body looks like. I stand corrected.

If you've tried it before and weren't quite hooked, I encourage you to give it another run. They are REALLY finding their groove. Matt Priven is genuinely hilarious. They even put out a near-full-length April Fools' Day episode.

When the subject of this podcast comes up (usually in the backdrop to a lament about the current geologic pace the MP publication schedule) inevitably someone mentions that they gave it a shot and it didn't snag them. That's okay! It didn't snag me at first either, why I felt the need to post this. In the beginning a lot of their topics seemed to be snoozes to me, and the main reason I kept them on my podcast roll was because they are ad-free.

But lately they have just gotten so good. I'm sure part of it is the the US has gotten so stupid that the corpus of potential subjects has grown immeasurably, but part of it is definitely finding their voices edutainers.

Anyway, that's all. I just wanted to praise Jen and Matt and maybe give anyone who isn't listening to them something to consider.

Peter from IBCK is on today’s episod!

Anyone else want Aubrey to put out a bean cookbook?

I'm manifesting this hard (crossover reference in honor of today's episode 😁).

I was cleaning out books yesterday and came across “French Women Don’t Get Fat” and “French Women for All Seasons” (yes, there was a sequel!). I devoured them both amid a long line of diet and nutrition books across 20 years. I have never been at all overweight, but between the skinny trend of the 2000s + dancer brain, I never had a chance. I started to throw them into the Goodwill box, and realized I could help stop the cycle. They went in recycling instead.

I got the Patreon membership at the beginning of the year and have been snacking on all the bonus eps in the last few months. Today, during the 2023 Grifties, I heard Michael say: “But like, there’s no rectum in your blood”; and it felt very important to me to post about it in the internet.

Novympia is giving us the scoop!

Welcome to the weekly wins/victories Sunday thread!

Thanks to u/martysgroovylady, we've decided to make a weekly thread specifically so that folks can share and discuss their wins and victories that they've had regarding fatphobia this past week. Did your doctor listen to you? Did you get someone new to listen to the podcast? Were you able to have a good conversation with a friend or acquaintance about fatphobia? Did you make some good progress in therapy? Feel free to share your feel-good stories to mark a strong start to the new week :).

Feel free to also share news you've found on the internet that feels like a victory against fatphobia! Maybe your state just made discrimination against fat people illegal, or there's a fat activist activity going on in your area (e.g. Fat Beach Day in NY).

Please remember: Do not vote or comment in cross-posted linked threads, keep the discussion here. Thanks all! Have a wonderful week.

Welcome to the weekly "Michael, fuck all the way off!" Friday thread!

We've decided to make a weekly thread specifically so that folks can share and discuss fatphobia and/or rage-inducing comments seen in other subreddits. Feel free to use this thread to cross-post and vent about/discuss the things you've seen online this week that ruffled your feathers. We label this weekly thread as NSFW so that folks who don't want to see rage-bait, fatphobic content can pass on by.

Please remember: Do not vote or comment in cross-posted linked threads, keep the discussion here. Thanks all! Have a wonderful weekend.