The Fat Doctor Podcast

Destroying 10 Lies That Are Used to Justify Weight Based Discrimination

Send us a text [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/1743876/open_sms] After a year of exploring wellness culture and its discriminatory foundations, I've identified 10 arguments people use to justify discrimination against fat people—and I'm dismantling every single one. From the "health concern" disguise to the false claim that being fat is a choice, from economic justifications to the burden of proof fallacy, these arguments collapse under scrutiny.  The truth is simpler and darker: discrimination against fat people isn't justified by evidence or ethics—it's justified because it makes people feel morally superior, saves institutions money, and allows society to continue a comfortable prejudice. When people are dying in real-time because doctors deny them care, calling it "medical reality" doesn't make it less harmful—it makes it systemic violence dressed up as medicine. Download your copy of Fat, Festive and Fierce here [https://checkout.mailerlite.com/checkout/8700] Got a question for the next podcast? Let me know [contact@fatdoctor.co.uk]! Connect With Me * WEEKLY NEWSLETTER [https://dashboard.mailerlite.com/forms/302291/82456463212020836/share]: Get a free script when you sign up * THE WEIGHTING ROOM [https://www.fatdoctor.co.uk/the-weighting-room/]: A community where authenticity thrives and every voice matters * The CONSULTING ROOM [https://www.fatdoctor.co.uk/the-consulting-room/]: Get answers to all your medical questions via DM or Voice Note PLUS access to my entire library of paid resources * CONSULTATION [https://www.fatdoctor.co.uk/consultations/]: For the ultimate transformation in your healthcare journe * THE WEIGH FORWARD [https://www.fatdoctor.co.uk/accessing-surgery/]: For people who are being denied surgery because of their weight * FREE GUIDES [https://www.noweigh.org/free-resources/]:Evidence-based, not diet nonsense Find me on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/thefatdoctor/], YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyRJX02ILxbqSqXee4QGGAQ], and LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/thefatdoctor/].

The Logical Fallacies That Season Your Holiday Fatphobia

Send us a text [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/1743876/open_sms] This holiday season, you'll hear countless claims about weight and health dressed up as concern or common sense. But beneath every "everybody knows" and "the experts say" lies a logical fallacy waiting to be dismantled. In this episode, I arm you with the tools to recognize and challenge the flawed reasoning behind anti-fat rhetoric from ad hominem attacks to deliberately vague language designed to make illogical arguments sound scientific." Whether you're facing concern trolling from relatives or rage-watching haters online, understanding these patterns of illogic reveals what's really happening: weak arguments from people who have nothing substantive to offer, desperately trying to justify discrimination while you're armed with evidence, reason, and the power to walk away. Download your copy of Fat, Festive and Fierce here [https://checkout.mailerlite.com/checkout/8700]. Got a question for the next podcast? Let me know [contact@fatdoctor.co.uk]! Connect With Me * WEEKLY NEWSLETTER [https://dashboard.mailerlite.com/forms/302291/82456463212020836/share]: Get a free script when you sign up * THE WEIGHTING ROOM [https://www.fatdoctor.co.uk/the-weighting-room/]: A community where authenticity thrives and every voice matters * The CONSULTING ROOM [https://www.fatdoctor.co.uk/the-consulting-room/]: Get answers to all your medical questions via DM or Voice Note PLUS access to my entire library of paid resources * CONSULTATION [https://www.fatdoctor.co.uk/consultations/]: For the ultimate transformation in your healthcare journe * THE WEIGH FORWARD [https://www.fatdoctor.co.uk/accessing-surgery/]: For people who are being denied surgery because of their weight * FREE GUIDES [https://www.noweigh.org/free-resources/]:Evidence-based, not diet nonsense Find me on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/thefatdoctor/], YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyRJX02ILxbqSqXee4QGGAQ], and LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/thefatdoctor/].

When Healthcare Becomes Compliance Theater

Send us a text [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/1743876/open_sms] Healthcare's approach to diabetes has become less about treating a disease and more about fixing the person. In this episode, I walk through Cosmo's fictional-but-familiar journey from diagnosis through multiple medications to a specialist referral that came with a homework assignment. When we receive forms asking us to set goals, rate our confidence, and think about what our blood sugar levels "mean to us" before we've even met a clinician, we're being set up to fail. I examine how medical professionals have shifted responsibility for treatment outcomes onto patients, turning a manageable chronic condition into a moral failure requiring correction—and why this approach drives people away from the care they desperately need.  If you're dreading your next diabetic review, my online course [https://learn.fatdoctor.co.uk/courses/T2D] gives you everything the diabetes clinic should have given you: understanding, empowerment, and practical tools—without the shame.  Got a question for the next podcast? Let me know [contact@fatdoctor.co.uk]! Connect With Me * WEEKLY NEWSLETTER [https://dashboard.mailerlite.com/forms/302291/82456463212020836/share]: Get a free script when you sign up * THE WEIGHTING ROOM [https://www.fatdoctor.co.uk/the-weighting-room/]: A community where authenticity thrives and every voice matters * The CONSULTING ROOM [https://www.fatdoctor.co.uk/the-consulting-room/]: Get answers to all your medical questions via DM or Voice Note PLUS access to my entire library of paid resources * CONSULTATION [https://www.fatdoctor.co.uk/consultations/]: For the ultimate transformation in your healthcare journe * THE WEIGH FORWARD [https://www.fatdoctor.co.uk/accessing-surgery/]: For people who are being denied surgery because of their weight * FREE GUIDES [https://www.noweigh.org/free-resources/]:Evidence-based, not diet nonsense Find me on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/thefatdoctor/], YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyRJX02ILxbqSqXee4QGGAQ], and LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/thefatdoctor/].

Ignoring the Harm: Why We Justify Suffering for Weight Loss

Send us a text [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/1743876/open_sms]  When doctors recommend weight loss, they describe the supposed benefits but remain silent about the harms—reduced metabolism, increased appetite, hormonal disruption, eating disorders, and profound mental health impacts. This ethical failure extends beyond outdated diet advice to newer interventions like GLP-1 medications, where we celebrate short-term metabolic improvements while ignoring gastrointestinal distress, financial burden, social isolation, and unknown long-term consequences.  In this episode, Asher challenges the dangerous assumption that fat people should suffer to become thinner, exposing how this narrative serves the weight loss industry's profits while treating fat bodies as unworthy of basic ethical consideration in healthcare.  Got a question for the next podcast? Let me know [contact@fatdoctor.co.uk]! Connect With Me * WEEKLY NEWSLETTER [https://dashboard.mailerlite.com/forms/302291/82456463212020836/share]: Get a free script when you sign up * THE WEIGHTING ROOM [https://www.fatdoctor.co.uk/the-weighting-room/]: A community where authenticity thrives and every voice matters * The CONSULTING ROOM [https://www.fatdoctor.co.uk/the-consulting-room/]: Get answers to all your medical questions via DM or Voice Note PLUS access to my entire library of paid resources * CONSULTATION [https://www.fatdoctor.co.uk/consultations/]: For the ultimate transformation in your healthcare journe * THE WEIGH FORWARD [https://www.fatdoctor.co.uk/accessing-surgery/]: For people who are being denied surgery because of their weight * FREE GUIDES [https://www.noweigh.org/free-resources/]:Evidence-based, not diet nonsense Find me on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/thefatdoctor/], YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyRJX02ILxbqSqXee4QGGAQ], and LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/thefatdoctor/].

Why It's So Hard To Just BE Fat

Send us a text [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/1743876/open_sms]  We've been taught to hate and fear fat bodies in equal measure—for social reasons, moral reasons, and medicalized health reasons that justify the first two. Society tells us fat people don't belong, that we're unacceptable, abnormal, and undesirable. We're judged as lazy, undisciplined moral failures who are stealing resources from those who deserve them. And when these prejudices become too uncomfortable to defend, health concern provides the perfect cover. In this episode, I break down exactly why it's so hard to accept that it's okay to be fat, even for rational, critical-thinking people who should know better. Because when you understand why society has framed fat bodies as a problem, you can begin to resist internalizing that message.  Got a question for the next podcast? Let me know [contact@fatdoctor.co.uk]! Connect With Me * WEEKLY NEWSLETTER [https://dashboard.mailerlite.com/forms/302291/82456463212020836/share]: Get a free script when you sign up * THE WEIGHTING ROOM [https://www.fatdoctor.co.uk/the-weighting-room/]: A community where authenticity thrives and every voice matters * The CONSULTING ROOM [https://www.fatdoctor.co.uk/the-consulting-room/]: Get answers to all your medical questions via DM or Voice Note PLUS access to my entire library of paid resources * CONSULTATION [https://www.fatdoctor.co.uk/consultations/]: For the ultimate transformation in your healthcare journe * THE WEIGH FORWARD [https://www.fatdoctor.co.uk/accessing-surgery/]: For people who are being denied surgery because of their weight * FREE GUIDES [https://www.noweigh.org/free-resources/]:Evidence-based, not diet nonsense Find me on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/thefatdoctor/], YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyRJX02ILxbqSqXee4QGGAQ], and LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/thefatdoctor/].