maintenancephase - Welcome, maintainers!

I've loved listening to maintenance phase, thank you. You're both hilarious, thoughtful and so thorough with your research. I'm grateful to my friend who recommended this and have now gone on a summer long binge of 'If books could kill' and 'you're wrong about' too. As for topics, I'm intrigued by the rise of the food supplement drink, Huel, here in the UK, if that's a topic worth exploring.

Ms S

2024-08-26 21:10:25 +0000 UTC

I’m listening to an episode where you mention optifast. I once got optifast as a Christmas present from a friend. Without asking for it.

Joanne Griffin

2024-08-08 20:45:51 +0000 UTC

I’m new here. I am obsessed. I am listening to them all. And it is glorious! Was introduced to the show when Aubrey did A bit fruity. You two are fabulous!

Joanne Griffin

2024-08-08 19:31:53 +0000 UTC

RIP to Richard Simmons. Maybe I have missed it in my podcast feed but I am shocked there hasn’t been at least one Maintenance Phase about him.

Scott Patrick Davarn

2024-07-13 23:14:55 +0000 UTC

Just found out about your pod and have binge-listened to every episode (some of them twice). Aubrey has the best laugh on the planet and I love her reactions (woof, what?! Oh sure, yeah, THAT makes sense lol). Please make a T-shirt "I'm having a punch, cry, vomit reaction". Every episode makes me lol. Literally. Please make more episodes about anticonvulsive and everything.

Bridget McBride

2024-05-07 23:27:12 +0000 UTC

I finally caught up to all the available episodes and can't wait to dive into the bonus episode 😁 🙌🏻

plutastar

2024-04-22 14:56:38 +0000 UTC

I love the podcast! Thank you for all of the work that you’re doing. Forgive me if this is on another thread but I’d love to hear you review Ruth Field aka The Grit Doctor (book titles ‘Run Fat B***h Run!’ and ‘Cut the Crap!’ Wishing you both all the best xxx

Angela H

2024-02-25 11:37:13 +0000 UTC

Absolutely love the podcast! I just read an article in the Lifestyle section of the newspaper (procrastinating at work!) on The Human Being Diet where the woman lost 19kg (“and kept it off”!)… it sounds like she starved herself to me, but I’d love to hear your review.

Ella Langdon

2024-01-22 00:43:30 +0000 UTC

I want a Discord to connect with other snarky MP methodology queens!

Molly Colleen

2023-10-25 17:15:28 +0000 UTC

Thank you for doing what you do!! I’d like to hear thoughts/dialogue on the new trend happening in Weight Watchers / Noom / Others to prescribe meds (often diabetic meds) for weight loss. Access to these meds seems near impossible, otherwise, and insurance certainly does not cover weight loss (another huge issue). What are the pros and cons? Interested in knowing more and your take on it!

Cassandra Volbrecht

2023-08-04 19:18:52 +0000 UTC

I've been listening to the main episodes since the beginning and I'm so excited for all the bonus episodes!

Emmaline Conover

2023-04-11 16:31:20 +0000 UTC

Can’t wait to get started on every bonus episode from the be beginning!

Amanda Van Wyk

2023-04-09 18:26:53 +0000 UTC

JuicePlus

Reverend Kirsten Hancock

2023-04-02 23:52:29 +0000 UTC

Noom

Reverend Kirsten Hancock

2023-04-02 23:52:20 +0000 UTC

Hilaria Baldwin

Reverend Kirsten Hancock

2023-04-02 23:52:08 +0000 UTC

Yolanda Hadid and her daughters relationship with food

Heidi Hughes

2023-03-15 14:42:47 +0000 UTC

My love for this podcast compels me to post. Please do the potato diet.

Ericka MacLeod-Parson

2022-10-27 19:23:05 +0000 UTC

I 2nd this one - sounds really interesting!

Kristina Skeels

2022-10-12 19:30:21 +0000 UTC

Just saw a story about Linda Hazzard for the first time and would be interested to hear more through you two! She was a physician in Washington who killed multiple patients through fasting in her sanitarium and was convicted as a serial killer, later dying of her own methods

Lenni

2022-10-08 03:17:12 +0000 UTC

Super late to the Patreon party, but love you guys so much! I am an avid podcast listener and this is the first patreon I've subscribed to since I love what you do so much! <3 <3

Olga

2022-09-14 17:08:58 +0000 UTC

Yes, the blood type diet is utter nonsense but I know licensed providers that pitch it!

Lisa Manske

2022-09-11 20:34:31 +0000 UTC

Hi I’m REALLY late to this conversation! I’m in the health food (I know… that term is even fraught with nonsense) industry and have been for 14 years. So oh man… I’ve seen and HEARD a lot!! I’d love your take on the blood type diet. People SWEAR by it and it seems so ridiculous!!! Thank you for all of the valuable insight you give on an industry that gets a lot right and gets SO MUCH wrong

Lauren Sofia

2022-09-01 21:31:36 +0000 UTC

Forgive me if this has already been suggested, hard to search mentions on the app (or I’m dumb!) but I’d love your take on the documentary ‘Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead’ (2010). After watching in 2011, I embarked on a 45 day “juice cleanse” wherein I ONLY DRANK FRESH JUICE and around day 40 I was so desperate to chew something again that I found myself thinking about crashing my literal car out of sheer frustration. Sadly I can’t say it was the last diet I ever went on, but it remains the diet I look back on to highlight the depth of my fatphobia at that time and general capacity for disordered eating.

Jessica Charlton

2022-07-26 23:05:40 +0000 UTC

I discovered you with our shared hatred of Rachel hollis. I joined for the Oprah episode on the prince Harry interview. Thank you for an entertaining AND evidence based show. It's not easy to combine the two. I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on the "naturally thin" diet program. The name has recently been changed to "wondr health"

Monica Dawkins

2022-07-19 17:52:33 +0000 UTC

Random bonus episode topic suggestion! I think it would be fun for Mike and Aubrey to read excerpts from those ubiquitous "What this celebrity eats in a day" articles and make each other guess who the celebrity is. I listen to the Amanda Chantal Bacon one whenever I'm sad and need cheering up, and every other diet roundup I encounter is generally less funny but equally untethered from reality.

Allie L.

2022-06-02 16:51:35 +0000 UTC

I would love to hear the real story about Blue Zones, the nutritional perspective of evolutionary biology. One bit of research on The Biggest loser. There is research showing that former contestants have permanently reduced their metabolisms as a result of the extreme methods on the show. Loved the Goop episode, though! I’d love to hear you dissect more Netflix episodes, if Michael can stand it!

Kerry Bowers

2022-05-24 03:54:54 +0000 UTC

Oh boy :D I love this content, so so so much... content content content, juicy delicious f*cking content. I just joined Patreon for the first time to be able to listen to more. You guys rock. Thank you for all you do.

Daniel Prill

2022-05-18 22:04:17 +0000 UTC

Guys I’m watching Super Nanny and I need you to watch at least one episode. You’ll know why 😭🤣

Eloise Walsh

2022-05-15 11:53:04 +0000 UTC

Hi Guys, I love you, pure and simple 🙂 You've helped me see myself for the person I am inside. You've also opened my eyes (and mind) to actually feel sorry for that gorgeous Barbie blonde friend (?) who needs to constantly compare herself to everyone around to convince herself that she is somehow better, more beautiful, healthier...blah blah blah... I have come to understand that I, in all my glory, am in a much better place than her. It allows me to tolerate the false "I'm fat, but oh! You look great!" bullshit I wouldn't trade places with her for all the tea in China. 🙂 Thanks for your podcast. I'm just sad that I have caught up. xoxo

Madeleine Reber

2022-05-14 11:47:45 +0000 UTC

Hiya- I’m a new patreon, and I’m not sure if this has been suggested yet but I think a look at the body image issues in the queer community would be really interesting! Like the body expectations for queer men and women, also as a non binary person there’s always an expectation to be very skinny. Keep up the great work!!

Boony Boon

2022-05-13 07:28:28 +0000 UTC

Hi team ! Not even sure if you see these but I would love a bonus pod about HAES - I understand the person behind the book was recently canceled? Not super sure what the deal is. I love what you do and value your work so much! Keep up the great work

Cordelia Reagan

2022-05-03 19:49:42 +0000 UTC

Episode suggestion: OPTAVIA A friend of a friend recently got sucked into this MLM-dieting mess. A brief perusal of their website revealed that they are selling boxes of granola bars with seven bars for over $20! Yikes. Would love a deep dive on this shit show.

Emeshea Petty

2022-05-02 06:32:32 +0000 UTC

Me too! She was like the revolution that opened my mind to counter culture…I still remember her on stage saying “no white flour, white rice or white men”

Natasha Wainwright

2022-04-28 16:39:07 +0000 UTC

I would love an episode on actually medically necessary diets that have been co-opted by diet culture. You did an episode on Keto, which is an example, but unfortunately there are so many more. In my own life, gluten free is an example. I have celiac disease so avoiding gluten is absolutely necessary for my health. However a gluten free diet has now been marketed for weight loss for people who don’t have celiac disease or non-celiac gluten sensitivity. (And FWIW, I didn’t lose weight after getting diagnosed and cutting out gluten.) Medical bias is a nuance here too - historically doctors often had a perception that people with untreated celiac are always thin because they are malnourished. This leads to fat people experiencing delays in getting properly diagnosed. It took me a long time to get diagnosed despite presenting typical celiac symptoms and part of that might be because I am fat.

Rose Hart

2022-04-27 20:17:44 +0000 UTC

Would love to hear an episode about personal trainers and their brand of wellness; the never-ending before+after shots, pushing of calorie counting etc. Many of them here in the UK seem to follow the same mantra and it's almost always 'you're overweight because you're not prioritising your health' bla bla bla - they're everywhere!!

Carly Halliday

2022-04-20 19:14:33 +0000 UTC

I knew some old-school vegans from when I volunteered in a vegan café (in a quite deprived area interestingly enough - it was cool to be able to feed a bunch of people well without animal products and with hearty vegan food, not half a carrot or something!). They were doing it for animal rights reasons, not for the "body beautiful" or whatever. This was mid-00s, before it all got co-opted by the clean eaters, wellness.

Cara Leopold

2022-04-12 10:24:01 +0000 UTC

Would love to hear about the bread hating, “wheat belly” phenomenon. Also a holiday episode on how to respond to ignorant family members offensive comments with evidence based zingers by you two would be amazing!

Molly

2022-04-09 00:28:21 +0000 UTC

Hi! New patron here. You're my new favorite podcast. I'm sure it has been requested already but please do a Herbalife episode! I would also like to request the AspireAssist device or K-E feeding tube diet which are both pretty disgusting and thankfully seem to have disappeared. I would also be so interested in your take on "Fat is a Feminist Issue" by Susie Orbach.

Rebecca Koch

2022-04-06 03:14:15 +0000 UTC

Y2k Ana- pro ana phenomenon and thinspiration Pinterest pages !

Whiskers

2022-03-30 21:17:42 +0000 UTC

I listen to you guys on my way to my boyfriend's house he's about 45 minutes away so I get through 1 and a half podcasts round trip on the weekends. I've come to expect the fade out music to be immediately followed by the next intro music. But last time I got...Radio Silence! Literally!! So here I am because I need more!!! You guys are awesome! xo

Madeleine Reber

2022-03-30 00:22:39 +0000 UTC

I second the ask for a Goop episode! New patreon here, thank you for all you do!

Megan Moroff

2022-03-29 17:14:42 +0000 UTC

Just finished ALL the regular podcast episodes and had to break my Lenten resolution (spoiler: I’m not a “good” Catholic girl… party since I’m 46) not to spend any unnecessary money. Although Mike and Aubrey seem necessary, so I absolve myself. Thanks for all you do!

Kate Spencer

2022-03-29 13:32:35 +0000 UTC

Hi, long-time fan of Maintenance Phase (and You’re Wrong About!) and new Patron! I would love to hear a bonus episode about Goop now that the person who used to be CCO has come out about how toxic Goop is. I honestly just really enjoying hearing you two yell about Gwyneth and Goop tbh. Thank you both so much for your work!!!

Courtney Schwalbach

2022-03-24 16:31:13 +0000 UTC

Please do a podcast on the Fuck It Diet book

Kathleen Federico

2022-03-19 00:39:01 +0000 UTC

I’d love an episode on Michael Mosley!

Maddie Hanover

2022-03-12 08:53:37 +0000 UTC

This link should help! https://www.patreon.com/posts/63524845

Shaunna Cullen

2022-03-10 22:03:02 +0000 UTC

I'm seeing some buzz on Twitter about pushback to Lindo Bacon and HAES. I'm not sure I totally understand the debate. Not trying to throw shade, just wanting to better understand what's going down.

Jayme Taylor

2022-03-10 06:26:52 +0000 UTC

IMHO, I think it's gonna be so dependent on individual bodies at this point in our nutritional research. Indigenous arctic communities eat diets full of mostly animal fats and live long healthy lives. Japanese diets are a lot of fish and white rice and noodles and have long healthy lives. We just don't know yet and also there's a pretty compelling case that everyone is different. There's also a pretty compelling case that psychosomatic effects are real, so if massive amounts of media says gluten makes you feel tired, you might get actually tired after gluten. There's also a pretty good study I read about where Thai women absorbed more nutrients than American women when eating the same food, because it was non-americanized Thai food and they felt more comfortable with it. So in my humble opinion, it's a crapshoot right now, and the best option is to remove yourself from all of the narratives and just enjoy food, note how you feel after, and move your body when you can, and note how you feel after, and trust over time that you are smart and you know you and you obviously wanna feel good so you'll make the food decisions that make you feel good.

Nancy N Boucher

2022-03-06 13:40:20 +0000 UTC

So the debunking is great, but what actually is a healthy diet? I know for sure that I enjoy my pleasant, easy poops after eating high fiber foods, and I can feel inflammation after eating lots of sugar for a few days in a row. But, like, I wish there was a good book to turn to that told me what was actually helpful. Is there such a book? It could be called “Pretty Good Nutrition and Important Stuff You Should Know.”

Elin Lennox

2022-03-05 22:49:29 +0000 UTC

NEED this esp with all the truly deranged stuff Kristina has said/done/sold

ava koerner

2022-03-04 19:12:37 +0000 UTC

This may have already been mentioned throughout the comments but I’m super keen to hear thoughts on brightline eating or noom as I feel like there has been a reactivation of these diets! Ty for all you do I’m obsessed with the podcast!

Mer Tran

2022-03-04 03:42:38 +0000 UTC

If you consider having guests at any point, having people who can speak more to the intersections of anti-fat bias with racism, transphobia, etc. could be a rly helpful development. I love what y’all have done so far!

Lauren Alexander

2022-03-03 00:00:46 +0000 UTC

Would love an episode on Calories In / Calories Out. I’m on Reddit, for music and cats mostly, but I do sometimes run into posts and comments that are overwhelmingly like “CICO, it’s super simple bro”. I don’t like seeing it but I also do not know how to respond besides ‘it’s not that simple’

Sam

2022-03-02 10:37:32 +0000 UTC

I’m in public health and y’all are my favorite podcast of all time. I listen on my way to work every day that I’m able. I don’t know if anyone has suggested doing an episode on Brittany Dawn but I’d love to hear your take on her. She’s a fitness-turned-Christian influencer; she had to rebrand when she scammed a ton of people out of money (including people with EDs) and got caught. She’s been in the news a bit recently because the Texas attorney general contacted her and she’s being sued. Anyway love the show and you’re both great, thanks for keeping us knowledgeable!

Kayla Stangis

2022-03-02 06:17:35 +0000 UTC

I keep thinking of more I’d like to hear your take on: Mark Sisson and the Primal Blueprint

Nina Squillante

2022-03-01 20:51:03 +0000 UTC

I saw someone mention Susan Powter which gave me flashbacks, and I would love to hear your thoughts on her. Also Richard Simmons, and the Scarsdale Medical Diet. Thank you both for your great work!

Nina Squillante

2022-03-01 20:28:55 +0000 UTC

Would love to hear about Calories In Calories Out, and so many of these other comments!

Jessica Spencer

2022-02-24 05:02:36 +0000 UTC

Oh, yes PLEASE. I was under the Mark Hyman/Andrew Weil spell for a good many years.

Amy Frost

2022-02-24 02:07:19 +0000 UTC

Ok to be fair I do not know if this guy is actually sketch but my sister-in-law has recently become obsessed and I'm getting some quackery vibes. Dr. Mark Hyman - he talks about things like "age reversal" and eating a "pegan (paleo vegan) diet." I just would really love to hear you two dive into this.

Anna Hegedus

2022-02-23 14:37:38 +0000 UTC

I would love to hear you guys take on Whole30!

Rebekah

2022-02-22 23:48:05 +0000 UTC

I would love to hear a dive into the Raw Vegan YouTubers, 80/10/10 diet, of the mid 2000's. Freelee the banana girl, Durian rider, Kristina (I think) who claimed her EYE COLOR changed from a raw vegan diet. These people are absolutely still around, but holy shit I was cult-level obsessed.

reyna cohan

2022-02-17 20:58:56 +0000 UTC

I listened to your Super Size Me episode (never had to watch it, never will, thank you for your service), and it reminds of all the McDonald's ads in the 80s and 90s that amounted to "McDonald's is just good, wholesome food; our buns provide 10% of your DV of calcium". I would be surprised to see them in Sports Illustrated for Kids, but it makes sense now: it wasn't a magazine for kids who wanted to be Junior World Champion anything, it was for kids who could probably never afford to be. (And yes, Youth sports would probably be a great future topic.)

Rebecca

2022-02-17 11:23:29 +0000 UTC

Please do an episode on Beachbody’s 2B Mindset. I think most people know that beachbody is a notorious fitness MLM but a few years ago they added a course you could take called the 2B Mindset where registered dietician Ilana Mulstein teaches you how to lose weight “without dieting.” It’s very much a diet but packaged as a mindshift change. You follow her 2 bunnies principle which is 1. Water First which is basically drinking half your body weight in water a day, 2. Veggies Most where as long as 50% of your plate is always veggies you’ll lose weight, 3. Weigh yourself every day, and 4. Track everything you eat. There’s a ton of sad recipes where you eat zucchini or cauliflower instead of pasta, pancakes make with egg whites and bananas, that sort of stuff. You’re also pressured into buying Shakeology and entirely different BB scam. I wasted money. I was hungry and sad.

Alison Alampi

2022-02-15 22:56:55 +0000 UTC

LOVE you two!! I would love if you did an episode on The Losada Ratio! Seems super up your alley. Bunk science, new info, weird ideas about mental health- all the things! <3

K

2022-02-15 22:30:16 +0000 UTC

I am listening to the supersize episode and I have so many feelings! It reminded me of when comedian Bill Maher went off on a rant on his late night show about it being time to shame fat people more (‘cause that never happens 🙄) and James Corden responded to it on his late now show. And, now, James Cordon is advertising for Weight Watchers 🤦‍♀️. Oh! Oh! And cities (New York?) passing laws to reduce the sizes of soft drinks that you can buy to reduce obesity rates. There’s so much of this crap out there. I’m sure you two amazing people will find ways to work these things into upcoming episodes. (Edit to add: you just worked in the cheeseburger bills! Thank you!)

Jennifer Chaput

2022-02-15 11:56:38 +0000 UTC

I am loving this podcast! I note this post is from last year, so I really hope you're still reading through these comments for possible ideas. I spent many years going through various eating disorder treatments. I was diagnosed at 15, so for some time I had little say over my treatment process, and my mom really didn't grasp what I needed in my recovery process. At one point, she sent me to a retreat treated sugar (and other 'trigger foods') similar to how alcohol/dugs may be treated in AA. The retreat leaders didn't eat ANY added sugar and some hadn't for years. Their idea of ED recovery was to forever abstain from these trigger foods. I have thought so much about this experience, and I'm wondering if there's any research out there on this type of 'treatment' (please note that I don't consider this a treatment AT ALL, and I think it was actually very detrimental to my recovery). Thank you so much!

Madalyn Nones

2022-02-13 20:47:50 +0000 UTC

Would love to hear a show about inflammation. It seems to exist in both a grifty and medical space. Like woowoo people are desperately trying to prevent it, but like my doctor has also told me to take tumeric and avoid foods that cause inflammation. I don't know what it is or what it means and would love/trust your take!

Shalee CM

2022-02-11 20:12:35 +0000 UTC

Oh my gosh, I think I was probably 8 or 9 when my little sister cut the hair off of my favorite troll doll and I have a VERY distinct memory of tattling that she'd turned my troll into Susan Powder. What a cultural moment.

Lauren Hauser

2022-02-10 15:27:01 +0000 UTC

I have very strong memories of Susan Powder's extreme popularity and what I perceive as insanity. Would be interested to hear more.

Morgen Rose

2022-02-06 02:20:24 +0000 UTC

i know you’ve already done weight watchers, but i’d love an episode on slimming world! not sure how popular it is in the us, but in the uk it’s literally a cult — more so than weight watchers i’d say. thank you for all that you do!

Alice Dunbar

2022-02-03 07:31:30 +0000 UTC

Hi guys! Love the podcast! I would love for you guys to do an episode about “Sugar Addiction” (I’m new to the podcast so I’m sorry if I missed anything!) I was watching the new Getting Curious show on Netflix and I was so sad to see the snacks episode and all of the discussion of sugar addiction and the ob*sity epidemic.

Maura McDonald

2022-02-02 20:09:27 +0000 UTC

You mentioned one time on Instagram that you might do an episode on Michelle Obama and the nutrition policy? I would love to hear that!!

Navi Kumar

2022-01-31 14:18:41 +0000 UTC

Hello Ruth, I just coincidentally saw your comment and I agree with you. An episode about fat-bias in gynecology and obstetrics would be extremely interesting to me. I've been trying to have a baby in over two years and it isn't working. I'm not interested in hearing "lose some weight" anymore!

Freddie Diallo

2022-01-30 19:14:56 +0000 UTC

Hi guys, just listening to your mailbox episode and i think you 100% need to make this one public - it's not because it's awesome, because it is. It's because you're speaking to clueless people who email you and they will never hear this if it's on Patreon. If it's free and out there, so an average person should really just find it as the first thing they see. Love you, and keep on doing this.

Kasia

2022-01-29 02:43:26 +0000 UTC

I have a few I would want you guys to go over: fat-bias in gynecology and obstetrics (I was told I my BMI was too high to have a baby, and if I did they wouldn't take my insurance) supplement stores (are they even really going to do anything for you?) And are clothes getting smaller? Because I've been wearing and XL for years, and now all of a sudden they don't go up past my thighs, sometimes not even XXL fit. I've been at 260lbs practically the whole time too, so it ain't me changing. Lastly, I'd love to hear your thoughts on intuitive eating, because that's actually what got me started on all of the anti-diet information and has helped me immensely

Ruth D

2022-01-24 14:42:47 +0000 UTC

I guess this post isn’t monitored anymore, but I’d really love and episode on veganism. It’s so difficult to find balanced info that isn’t saying either veganism or animal products will kill you. It’s links to clean eating / wellness worries me, but ethically and environmentally I’m sold

Louise

2022-01-23 02:52:46 +0000 UTC

Omg yes!

Rachel Fox

2022-01-20 16:45:37 +0000 UTC

oops- hit post before saying- I don’t know how lucrative this pod cast is but next year maybe have a contest to invite a fan to host the Grifties with you!? Or do something with you. I want a chance to hang out with you both.

Rachel Fox

2022-01-20 16:39:41 +0000 UTC

Hello from Montana! I am a brand new supporter. I wanted to support you and finally did it because I can’t get enough and I was out of episodes! Goes without saying but I love you guys- I love the show. Stumbled upon you and the Rachel Hollis sodes (when only one was out) and barely got by for a week waiting for part two. I would love for you to do a deep dive on glennon Doyle. And not find anything bad. But really- I had a brief period in my life where I was attending and “interesting” church and there is so much there (Rachel Hollis adjacent) with these Christian women mommy bloggers/writers. Interesting stuff. I like Glennon and obviously she changed. But what do you think now?

Rachel Fox

2022-01-20 16:38:11 +0000 UTC

I watched it on YouTube as a younger teenager. Definitely some trauma related to what was going on in my head and what I was wanting for my body related to that show. It was so awful. The worst part is that they would make them sit across from each other as they ate their meals. So the larger participant would generally have like a piece of toast or a cup of coffee and be forced to sit, usually hungry because they are used to much larger portions, just watching as someone, who has been subsiding on a significantly lower calorie diet, make them selves physically sick trying to scarf down food. It was terrible.

Fernanda

2022-01-18 21:07:23 +0000 UTC

First of all. Thank you so much. Absolutely love the podcast. Secondly I want a BeachBody episode so bad. The fact that it’s an MLM. The wackadoodle workouts shilled out by anyone who claims to be a fitness professional because they bought a starter pack. The meal plans designed to induce eating disorders (just the color-coded Tupperware in general). The supplements. Freaking Shakeology. I just want a deep dive.

Fernanda

2022-01-18 21:03:16 +0000 UTC

Really love what you guys do and can’t get enough! I’m a personal trainer and love my job but have always been skeptical about the overwhelming amount of information we have especially regarding weight and diets. Your podcast is really helping me learn how to talk to my clients in a better way and shift their mindsets away from diet culture and weight loss to health done their own way! Thank you thank you!

Molly Brown

2022-01-18 18:45:57 +0000 UTC

You guys are my favorite podcast hands down! I think it would be fun to have a bonus episode about badass fat people from history, either important or interesting figures that people don't talk about as much or figures that not many people know were fat or ones who have been "thin-washed" in media representations. This suggestion is inspired by Kate Manne's opinion piece in the NYT about diet culture where she mentions the difficulties of being fat in academia and people digging at Desmond Hume for his weight.

Allie L.

2022-01-10 18:53:04 +0000 UTC

Just wanted to share how much I absolutely LOVE this show! I just recently discovered this after it was mentioned on another podcast. I loved it so much that I went back and listened to all the episodes. I want to thank you so much for doing this. You both blow my mind every week and you’re doing a public service! First podcast I’ve ever contributed to. Forever thankful.

Sarissa

2022-01-09 21:56:51 +0000 UTC

I love this comment

Kitty Kat Kitty Kat

2022-01-09 03:02:31 +0000 UTC

Big fan of the show! How about the 10K steps a day as marketing to get us all buying FitBit/Garmin/tracker of choice? Or the wellness data industry in general? Another one is Gillian McKeith in the UK. Had a crazy TV show ostensibly about helping people with their diet but really was an exercise in shaming families and poking people’s poop (yes, that really happened ‘for science’). No longer on tv, she seems to have slid into anti-vax territory.

Jen Lucy

2022-01-07 20:02:04 +0000 UTC

Okay I would love to hear if Aubrey has this particularly toxic diet book and if so I’d love to here her thoughts on it. It’s, Reshaping It All: Motivation for Physical and Spiritual Fitness by Candace Cameron Bure, you heard that right, Candace Cameron Bure. It is so bad in so so many ways.

Angela Webster

2022-01-07 19:16:47 +0000 UTC

I would love to hear an episode on David Goggins - he’s somehow all over my social media all of a sudden (damn you algorithms!!), and a quick Google made me so upset so I can only imagine what kind of rage your in depth research would provoke!

Claire Tassin

2022-01-06 21:50:18 +0000 UTC

Would love to hear y'all take on Susan Powter and Stop the Insanity. (Also kinda dread it because I did love her back in the day.)

Kelly Dalton

2022-01-06 19:46:39 +0000 UTC

I would love this! It makes me so mad--all the celebrities who spend $$$ on non-invasive procedures at the derm (laser, Morpheus 8, Ultherapy etc) and then have the temerity to say it is all WATER. Um, no. It's not water. You spent $$$$$$$ on your fucking face. Also, please go look at Dr. Jacono's IG feed. He's a plastic surgeon. He starts at about $125K. Yes you read that right. Not $60K like some of the commenters on his feed say--they are just guessing and they are guessing wrong. People can do what they want with their faces and I'm not here to tell anyone what to spend on, but I also don't think that lying and saying it is water consumption is ethical. How about say nothing instead????

Jen Marshall

2022-01-06 15:39:44 +0000 UTC

I second weight loss surgeries. I have heard so many horror stories about them.

Laura Kelley

2022-01-06 07:10:38 +0000 UTC

I would love to address weight loss surgeries. I got the Lap Band back in 06. Many many awkward vomit moments later, surprise! They don't perform that operation anymore. Now it's too expensive for insurance to get it removed.

Angie Livesay

2022-01-05 15:40:27 +0000 UTC

In the UK we had an awful show called 'supersize vs superskinny' that was on for years and really warped my understanding of bodies and weight. All of the food they each ate in a week was poured into clear tubes for some reason and then they were made to stand in ill fitting nude underwear with cameras spinning around taking zoomed in video and photos. They moved into a house together and then swapped diets for the week with no information or advice? The more I remember the worse it gets..

ARay

2022-01-03 18:31:06 +0000 UTC

My favorite part of every episode is Aubrey yelling “MIKE NO you’re fired!” 😄

Jonas Hemgren

2022-01-03 16:11:40 +0000 UTC

What I wouldn’t give to hear a deep dive on the toe shoe craze of the early 2010s.

Lindsay V

2022-01-03 04:54:47 +0000 UTC

Your recommendations of books that challenge the diet & wellness industry (I read Aubrey's this year!)

Adelia Humme

2022-01-01 01:46:25 +0000 UTC

I actually went looking for Jamie Lee Curtis and Activia! 🤣🤣🤣 How about that and the other cleverly named levels of your Patreon? They are good ideas.

Sarah Hembree Ramos

2021-12-31 05:13:37 +0000 UTC

Aubrey and Mike, you are brilliant and wonderful! In the last two weeks I’ve binged about half of the episodes so far, and am super excited to listen to the rest, and to all the bonus content. You both mention Intermittent Fasting in several episodes but I’d love to hear more about IF. Thanks so much for this hugely important, valuable, and entertaining work that you are doing.

Kelly Koffman

2021-12-29 01:00:14 +0000 UTC

How about store sizing? For the amount of women ( and men) that are above a size 10 the selection is abysmal. It’s sending a very specific message about who stores want wearing their clothing. I’m a millennial, and some of my worst teen body image memories involved going into Abercrombie and Victoria’s Secret. Both stores publicly made statements about only selling to an “attractive customer.” I have to say, I’ve seen some very recent inclusive sizing and diversity in models at stores.

Elizabeth Mercante

2021-12-25 18:33:01 +0000 UTC

Can you do an episode about how much water one is supposed to drink and if/how that actually affects you….. so many celebrities swear by drinking water for skin care etc….. plz and thanks!

Audrey

2021-12-21 00:25:30 +0000 UTC

Related subjects that would make good episodes: the cookbooks that showed up several years ago that centered around sneaking pureed vegetables into kids' food and the campaign to put cauliflower in everything.

Rebecca

2021-12-20 15:29:27 +0000 UTC

Literally begging for a Jordan Peterson's Carnivore Diet episode please.

Jon Crowder

2021-12-16 16:59:16 +0000 UTC

Yes! Just heard about it from a friend who struggles with autoimmune issues. It seems to really help her feel more comfortable and less inflamed but there seem to be gaps that make me skeptical. I don't understand why she can't have frozen fruits that were picked at peak freshness? And any time a diet recommends eliminating global staples like legumes and grains, I am wary. Oh and of course because Gundry also sells supplements to help with all those pesky lectins...

Rachel

2021-12-12 18:34:14 +0000 UTC

Not necessarily bonus content, but I'd love to hear your take on Dr. Gundry and his lectin-free diet.

Ren Roche

2021-12-11 17:11:24 +0000 UTC

Yes!! I totally need a sugar episode.

Hannah Lipskey

2021-12-10 18:16:23 +0000 UTC

New Patron here and Anti-Diet dietitian! I’d love to hear your take on High Fructose Corn Syrup and sugar in general!!

Erin Kelly

2021-12-09 01:58:35 +0000 UTC

I would love to hear some research on what the war on opiates is doing to pain patients who really have no other options. the opiate crisis has some real similar notes to the war on drugs and the war on obesity to me and I would love to hear some other takes on it.

Becky Dion Johnson

2021-12-08 20:10:32 +0000 UTC

I would love to hear all about this too!!!

Amanda Wright

2021-12-06 15:18:51 +0000 UTC

You mentioned lipidema in one of your episodes— I’d love to hear you interview Sarah Bramblette on her activism on this. https://twitter.com/born2lbfat?s=21

Jennifer Sader

2021-12-05 14:25:59 +0000 UTC

I’d like to see a methodology queeny episode on the real long-term outcomes for these surgeries.

Jennifer Sader

2021-12-05 14:18:32 +0000 UTC

I'd love to see something on Noom, since so many people swear by it but it just seems to me to be another calorie-counting/food restriction plan?

Alcor Drew Hilliard

2021-12-03 16:27:53 +0000 UTC

Hey! I'm new to patreon. I love your podcast a lot. Is there a place to chat about the regular episodes and general content related stuff? I'm currently also listening to Aubrey's book on Audible. I'm bummed she didn't narrate it cos I love her voice, but the content is super. It's stretching my brain in good ways and also making me angry as fuck. <3 both your work. ~Emily

Emily Emily

2021-12-02 18:32:22 +0000 UTC

I recently moved to a new city with a lot of rain and it has been impossible to find a regular waterproof jacket my size. I wear size 18 pants and have very wide hips so male jackets won't fit either. I'm tired of using huge plastic ponchos. Pleaaaase industry, clothe us.

Maca Silva

2021-12-01 13:23:12 +0000 UTC

Topic for future episode: interview Jamie Loftus from aack cast about Cathy comics dieting and food relationship. It’s truly a reactionary comic of it’s time. It’s crazy just looking at the commercials she did. One commercial for Betty Crocker where she is binge eating cake in the middle of the night. The next is a McDonald’s salad commercial with low fat dressing. But I say this with love for Cathy Guisewite. And yes she did an ad with weight watchers

Cassandra Huete

2021-11-28 04:54:17 +0000 UTC

Topic for future episode: Project Runway. Season 14 - designer Ashley Nell Tipton who designed a collection for “plus” size women. I really liked Ashley during the shows. This may have been the first season to incorporate “plus” size clothing in the competition.

Julie Anthony

2021-11-24 23:23:22 +0000 UTC

Hello fellow methodology queens! New patreon, I've been binging old episodes of the show and loving it! I would love an episode on Nutrisystem. I went on it when I was about 25, and $300 monthly was a lot of money to spend. I justified it by saying that it was all my food for the month, and if I added up groceries and dining out, that was about the same! The bait and switch of Nutrisystem is that it ISN'T all the food you need in a month. When you eat one of their breakfast foods, you're supposed to pair it with a serving of a fruit and a dairy. Lunches are paired with fruit and salad, and then dinners are supposed to be paired with a dairy and two vegetables. So you still need to buy milk/cheese and fresh fruit and veg regularly. Also when it first arrived, I remember thinking the food wasn't THAT bad, but by the end of the month, I hated all of it. When you cancel, you HAD TO CALL and talk to a person, who has a whole script to convince you to stay. "But haven't you been happy with your weight loss? If you didn't have any weight loss, did you REALLY stick to the Nutrisystem method? What if you tried it for one more month to make sure you know all your results?"

Casey Connor

2021-11-23 20:40:56 +0000 UTC

I also want an episode on Wii Fit! I haven't stepped on the "balance board" in at least 5 years, but I can still perfectly hear "that's obese!" in my head.

Casey Connor

2021-11-23 20:37:05 +0000 UTC

Wii fit....so I could workout inside without anyone seeing me or judging me. So I weigh myself on the board and my little cartoon character gets all sad and slouches down and cries as the system announces "that's obese!" I want to hear Aubrey say oh fuck all the way off!

Mary Brower

2021-11-19 20:02:37 +0000 UTC

Yes! I looked it up on you tube and couldn't stop watching, it was so relaxing and I ended up doing the whole workout on my rug. I felt great. Spoiler though, many of the moves are sort of like beginner yoga, or how yoga used to be back in 1988 when I first learned it...just stretching and relaxing, awesomeness.

Mary Brower

2021-11-19 19:56:41 +0000 UTC

plant-based diets

Destiny Best

2021-11-19 01:04:41 +0000 UTC

vegan

Destiny Best

2021-11-19 01:04:33 +0000 UTC

paleo

Destiny Best

2021-11-19 01:04:22 +0000 UTC

Vyvanse and Bamu 🤣

Mary McBride

2021-11-18 06:50:50 +0000 UTC

Intermittent Fasting!

Erin Margaret

2021-11-18 03:58:41 +0000 UTC

Pete Evans! Get Australia involved and meet one of the most BONKERS dudes in existence. His Covid stuff will blow your minds and you may need to sit down for a few years. ADORE your work more than I can say. xoxoxox

BinsQ

2021-11-17 01:56:57 +0000 UTC

A episode on a diabetes and misconceptions with type one diabetes. There this huge stigma with weight loss in type one diabetic community. Diabulimia is a real eating disorder and it's not talked about enough.

Amy Langsam

2021-11-17 00:59:46 +0000 UTC

I would love a gluten free episode! I have celiac and I'm sick of fad dieters. They make me look like I'm crazy when I'm just trying to protect my intestinal vile !

Amy Langsam

2021-11-17 00:57:12 +0000 UTC

I'd love to see a hot take on the weirdness around clothing and sizes. In what other market are all the retailers struggling to serve a tiny slice of paying customers while ignoring or at least stigmatizing everyone else?

Jennifer Sader

2021-11-15 14:52:57 +0000 UTC

i just have to say i would genuinely pay more than i am now for a jane fonda episode. she has so many things to talk about, like her early life and the hanoi jane situation (which i would kill for y’all’s opinion on) but i HAVE to hear y’all talk about her workout tapes. it’s all i can think abt since the angela lansbury episode lmao

Kenzie Owens

2021-11-14 18:04:52 +0000 UTC

Yes, to an episode on Bikram and Bikram’s Hot Yoga series.

Julie Anthony

2021-11-12 22:26:45 +0000 UTC

Am i the only person who immediately went to eBay to find a used DVD by Angela Lansbury?? how about a yoga schmoga episode?

headphone_friendz

2021-11-12 09:27:34 +0000 UTC

an episode on bikram!

anna

2021-11-09 07:07:57 +0000 UTC

The dream episode would be a chat with Lindo Bacon about HAES.

claudia supplee

2021-11-08 23:46:13 +0000 UTC

Would absolutely love you hear you guys unpack the YouTube beauty community and Jaclyn Hills current wellness series

Kate Shapcott

2021-11-08 22:24:08 +0000 UTC

Love the show! It’s hilarious and insightful! Would be interested in hearing your thoughts on Whole30 and the docuseries LuLaRich.

Julie Anthony

2021-11-06 22:25:14 +0000 UTC

Hi! New listener but big fan! Sending in a request for a prominent and super problematic figure during my childhood, Dr. Laura. She gives a lot of abhorrent advice to parents to basically abuse their children into losing weight, and equally abhorrent “advice” to women about losing weight to save their marriage (or blames their divorce on their weight). Really horrible stuff, would obviously love to hear about it in greater detail!

Katie Veit

2021-11-05 20:43:43 +0000 UTC

Hi! I’m new here so sorry if this has already been mentioned but I would love to see something on that horrible reality show “the swan” I have memories of my childhood self watching that and wishing I could be so lucky to get on that show and how much better my life would be.. bleh!

Kelly Taylor

2021-11-03 17:27:45 +0000 UTC

Seconding the request for Dr. Now and/or My 600# Life. I keep looking for deep dives and critique of this show, and if it's out there, I haven't found it. What I find instead are weird TMZ-style OMG SO OUTRAGEOUSLY FAT gossip bloggers. It's...not great!

Jen McAllister

2021-11-02 20:10:23 +0000 UTC

Can you do one on Dr. Now/My 600lb Life?

Sarah

2021-11-02 14:28:46 +0000 UTC

Suggestion: Fashion industry’s resistance to size inclusivity.

Laura Hetzel

2021-11-01 22:11:56 +0000 UTC

Hi! I have an episode suggestion: “The Devil Wears Prada”

Laura Evans

2021-10-28 21:46:17 +0000 UTC

New Maintainer and I cannot wait to drown my ears in content for the day! In listening to Mike’s reaction to the Bachelor, I really hope you dive into ‘F Boy Island’ which I could not tear myself away from because it was just so terrible. Schadenfreude at its finest.

Kristen Mancini

2021-10-28 15:29:55 +0000 UTC

Hi random internet person, I love your comment because: I have been reading his books my whole life like since 5th or 6th grade - I just read his brand new book and had the same revelation because the main character has to be in disguise and wears a fake pregnancy belly to disguise himself as a fat nerd, and there are... problems. Whoa.

Jessica Langlois

2021-10-28 14:33:19 +0000 UTC

I would love them to talk about Gillian McKeith - I'm sure she's already been requested!

Cara Leopold

2021-10-28 11:40:42 +0000 UTC

I've always been a reader and love grabbing popular titles. Which is why I've always felt a bit left out having not read a Stephen King novel. Deciding to remedy that I picked up my first King novel during this October season with Mr. Mercedes. I have been absolutely shocked at King's constant body commentary and fat shaming. It is honestly featured on nearly every page (maybe this is why his books are so insanely long?!). I have no idea if this is present in all of his novels, but would love your take on this and other instances within fiction.

Kate Carter-Brown

2021-10-26 16:57:22 +0000 UTC

The Weigh Down Diet book was really the first diet book I read and it is what started my journey to disordered eating and many yo-yos. I was 20. 23 years later I’m now not religious and have no desire to be ever again and trying to let go of diet culture.

Katharine Macy

2021-10-26 02:09:23 +0000 UTC

I had previously sent an email about this but I would love to see a regular show or a bonus episode about the lack of inclusivity in the outdoor sports industry. I work in a ski retail shop, I’m a size 16 and I literally can only fit in one jacket and one pair of pants in the entire store (which aren’t my style because they assume if you are “bigger” you are older and want old lady outfits. Not only do most brands not make sizes above XL or even in some case large!! But the sizes they do make almost always run small, so people have to size up and even people who usually wear a size large sometimes are left with very little options. We are always told it’s because they brands are designing for the tall, skinny, European/Nordic women. I know this is not just an issue in the ski world, it’s an issue kind of across the board when it comes to athletic wear, especially for women. We don’t get clothes made for our true sizes and we sure as heck don’t get models or even mannequins in our sizes. Yes some brands are starting to do better with the help of several plus sized athletes like Mirna Valerio (you could do an episode on her and other athletes like her!!) but it’s still pretty few and far between and it definitely has not cracked into the hiking/skiing world.

Shannon Minghella

2021-10-25 03:39:33 +0000 UTC

My suggestion is the Remnant "Church of weight loss" and Gwen Shamblin.

Kristina

2021-10-24 22:56:25 +0000 UTC

Hi fam!❤️ I'm obsessed with the show and have listened to every episode which has only left me jonesing for more! My absolutely favorite is Aubrey's "oh buddy!" I would love an episode on marijuana: the legalization, the stigma, the public opinion etc and how it has changed in recent years. I'm always so frustrated that it gets lumped in with hard drugs when it can be so beneficial for people with chronic pain and is SO much less harmful than alcohol, which is ubiquitous in society. Thanks!

Nicole Pearce

2021-10-23 23:31:04 +0000 UTC

Ooh, zero waste culture - because your body never changes, you can afford high quality garments, and you never need medications that come in plastic. And you have time to use your own glass jars at the natural grocery store bulk bins :/

Jayme Taylor

2021-10-23 21:03:45 +0000 UTC

So I just learned about Queen Latifah teaming up with Novo Nordisk to talk about how “Obesity is a health condition.” Pluueeze. Aubrey and Michael can you do a podcast or a Patreon Cast on this one? Their website is itsbiggerthan.com It’s so offensive. I used to like the Queen. Now I’m not so sure.

Rachel Becker

2021-10-23 19:48:50 +0000 UTC

Aubrey - you didn’t like when Rachel Hollis talked about Pam not being someone you can trust because she couldn’t stay on a diet and your mom’s name is Pam. Well I don’t like that Rachel Hollis’ name is Rachel!

Rachel Becker

2021-10-23 19:46:06 +0000 UTC

More Rachel Hollis? It is truly never enough. And YouTube beauty drama!

barb

2021-10-23 18:56:39 +0000 UTC

A general history of beauty standards in the U.S.

Andina Aste-Nieto

2021-10-22 21:06:42 +0000 UTC

My fitness pal, America’s next top model, plus size fashion, orthorexia

Michelle Underwood

2021-10-22 18:56:12 +0000 UTC

Omggg this Patreon subscription was worth every cent. These bonus episodes are LIFE. One idea: an episode about Reformation?? in particular its very distinctive and pernicious “we are clearly a skinny girl brand but here are some fat people because society told us to” ??

Valentina

2021-10-21 19:33:59 +0000 UTC

9 perfect strangers and the ‘mystique’ of the thin white woman guru!!

Li Fryling

2021-10-21 15:08:55 +0000 UTC

Omg have you all seen “The Way Down” doc on HBO? This intersection of diet culture and cultish religions in this story is wild. Definitely should do a watch episode 😵‍💫

Shannon Healy

2021-10-21 03:58:10 +0000 UTC

Emily Mariko and the “that girl” aesthetic on Instagram/TikTok that attempts to hide diet culture to keep consumers at it (yes I am gen z if you couldn’t tell)

Allison Whitaker

2021-10-20 22:36:02 +0000 UTC

I have a friend who recently had weight loss surgery and i...don't know how to feel about it. is that something that y'all would be interested in talking about?

Ox

2021-10-20 18:58:33 +0000 UTC

I honestly really like listening to the two of you talk about stuff, so even if you do bonus episodes not really at all related to the main pod's content, I'd be happy to listen!

Erin Prizant

2021-10-19 15:35:13 +0000 UTC

Agree

Lara Wilson

2021-10-17 12:05:58 +0000 UTC

Can I get a rant about shapewear ads with 'body positive' messages? :/

Jayme Taylor

2021-10-16 04:09:07 +0000 UTC

Thank you Aubrey and Mike for this podcast! You have helped me take an in-depth look at the messaging I've received on weight loss. I'm an older Gen Xer (refuse to accept "Boomer") and have been on and off diets my entire adult life. Two things that keep coming up for me is the whole "you need to drink water" messaging and how we got into bottled water being a thing. The other is the awful phrase "nothing tastes as good as being thin feels". I remember that being said over and over in WW and other diet advice. I love listening and learning from you both.

Karen Torrisi

2021-10-15 16:28:05 +0000 UTC

Seconding the recommendation about weight loss surgeries. As a fat person, I've had multiple primary care doctors at Kaiser bring this up with me. I always shut it down hard. I've known several people who'd had stomach surgery. All of them were miserable because of the food restrictions. All of them gained most of the weight back over time. Most of them experienced additional health complications, and one died, yet doctors keep pushing this on people. It's horrible.

illuminancer

2021-10-13 21:44:58 +0000 UTC

I want to learn about stomach stapling/weight loss surgeries from you both. The super literal “medicalization of weight loss” kind of thing. Also, I love you both. This podcast has meant a lot to me. I hope one day while I’m walking my dog in Portland I see Aubrey walking HER dog in Portland and both of our dogs are happy to see each other 😭

Biff Loman

2021-10-13 06:53:17 +0000 UTC

I only recently found your podcast and legit binged all the episodes in a few days (data entry work has its benefits). So appreciative of these extra episodes and thanks for all you do ❤️

Marybeth McAndrews

2021-10-12 17:51:15 +0000 UTC

I am not sure how to even state this as a topic… but the presentation of “bigger/curvy” women as representative who are not fat! I’m thinking about plus size models, Christina Hendricks, etc. I think many of these women are FABULOUS, but it’s really disingenuous that they are sometimes presented in a “see, we are inclusive!” manner.

Amelia Canavan

2021-10-11 03:40:09 +0000 UTC

Australian here. That guy can fuck off to the sun

matthew oakley

2021-10-09 11:42:51 +0000 UTC

Bridget Jones. She starts every entry with her diet-obsessed stats (albeit with her cigarette intake) … is there a link between how toxic cigarettes are vs her obsession with diet culture? Eh? Eh?!

Susan Batten

2021-10-08 23:08:20 +0000 UTC

Would LOVE an episode on Soylent. Thanks for all that you do!

Jane Weber

2021-10-08 21:03:09 +0000 UTC

Cross Fit ( would love a deep dive on its origin, how It got so popular so fast, and whether the criticisms are true about the methodology being potentially harmful/dangerous to the human body).

A.K.

2021-10-08 16:44:15 +0000 UTC

An episode on the carnivore diet would be fantastic, and I’d also love to hear Michael and Aubrey talk about Mikhaila Peterson’s absolutely (and I cannot emphasize this enough) BONKERS “Lion Diet”

lilian raus

2021-10-08 00:12:09 +0000 UTC

Richard Simmons please!

Charlene Lewis-Sutherland

2021-10-06 04:00:57 +0000 UTC

✌️Clean eating✌️ may warrant its own episode….

Jennifer Boeder

2021-10-06 00:06:39 +0000 UTC

MLM weight loss products & social media. So many friends from high school pushing things like Thrive

Jayme Taylor

2021-10-05 01:00:09 +0000 UTC

1. Became a patron for the first time to support y’all (sorry Amanda Palmer I do also think you’re great - Aubrey & Michael are just a smidge greater). 2. Suggested guest: Dr Sabrina Strings (or just a deep dive any of the chapters in Fearing the Black Body: the Racial Origins of fat phobia- like, there is a chapter on thinness as American exceptionalism!). 3. The macrobiotic diet 4. John Harvey Kellogg! What a wacko! Love your work so much. 💜 (I’m trying to be more funny and less angry after bingeing all your episodes. Y’all are great).

Christy McGillivray

2021-10-03 18:06:20 +0000 UTC

Fucking Sakara.

Susan Andrews

2021-10-02 21:04:01 +0000 UTC

Skinny white women appropriating the body positive movement which was startet for and by fat marginalized people. Skinny people have issues too, I know! But centering themselves in a movement that's fighting anti-fat bias, massive stigma, health issues and so on is SO annoying to me.

Johanne Nygaard

2021-10-01 15:08:54 +0000 UTC

Omg the French Women Don’t Get Fat - yes pleaaaase do an episode on this!

Michelle Keller

2021-10-01 14:38:42 +0000 UTC

Yeah, I saw that post but am skeptical, I feel like it’s not nuanced and there’s a ton of conflicting literature on alcohol.

Michelle Keller

2021-10-01 14:37:53 +0000 UTC

Lululemon and the whole scandal about their leggings pilling and now how they have finally embraced more sizes

Michelle Keller

2021-10-01 14:36:03 +0000 UTC

Ornish/ McDougall low fat diet in the idea of WFPB culture

Ashley Morel

2021-10-01 12:46:51 +0000 UTC

Gluten and why so many think they are now sensitive to it

Tara Robson

2021-10-01 08:12:25 +0000 UTC

The fun topic of jaw wiring and a new iteration - Otago University's weightloss devic. Not a joke, look it up. Ugh

Kasia

2021-10-01 00:06:11 +0000 UTC

Hope this hasn't been suggested already, but I'd love to hear an episode on Isagenix. When I was a kid, our whole family was briefly on Isagenix detox protocols (I can still taste the weirdly thick-tasting berry collagen water to this day). My mom transitioned pretty easily from the Isagenix regimen into full blown anorexia, which ended up being a years long recovery process. I thought that was the last I'd see of Isagenix, but recently I learned that it's still alive and well, and several people in my circle of friends are actually active participants shock horror dismay. Poking around their website, it looks like they've changed their messaging and marketing to be a "lifestyle" brand, not a diet brand. I'd love to get a deep dive on this particular corner of the cult-y diet world.

Brenda Taulbee

2021-09-30 16:08:30 +0000 UTC

Another idea! Would love a historical deep dive on moral panics around certain foods! Thinking of Samira Kawash's book on the history of Candy 🍬

Sarah Layzell

2021-09-29 13:29:32 +0000 UTC

I loved the wellness to qanon pipeline episode and am really interested to know if there is a similar gut health to covid denier pipeline? I'm thinking specifically of Gillian McKeith who was a big part of my mum's yoyo dieting years, but maybe also Andrew Wakefield (and other terrible people)?

Sarah Layzell

2021-09-29 13:15:50 +0000 UTC

I wanna hear Aubrey tell mike about Caroline Calloway!!!

Kate Bratskeir

2021-09-29 11:59:49 +0000 UTC

Aubrey your various groans during the Rachel Hollis episode spoke volumes! You had me cracking up!

Susan Moore

2021-09-29 02:54:38 +0000 UTC

Could you do one on meals that heal inflammation by Julie Daniluk?

Laura

2021-09-28 23:53:04 +0000 UTC

Ideas for topics: Collagen protein, alkaline water and diets, organic vs non-organic produce, food forests, "grass-fed" and "pasture-raised meat" vs "natural" "no hormones" etc. , more on sugar substitutes : sugar alcohols, etc.

EAH

2021-09-27 03:57:23 +0000 UTC

Thank you for your in-depth reporting, good humor and joy.

EAH

2021-09-27 03:47:47 +0000 UTC

Tagging onto the above I would love an episode on 600 pound life.

Nicole Von Germeten

2021-09-25 18:31:25 +0000 UTC

First-time Patreon member here as well. The work that y'all are doing is so important! I wanted to suggest an episode on weight loss surgery. I have recently entered that world (through my job) and listening to your podcast has really helped me understand and approach my work.

Rebeca Castellanos

2021-09-21 13:48:24 +0000 UTC

I'm gonna beg you to do a episode on Nutrisystem, please?! I send episodes to friends as a way to nudge them to become aware of their own anti fat bias. One of my friends is currently doing this diet. She comes from a family with both male and female members who struggle with disordered eating in a context of fatphobia. Your concise analysis is better than any research I could do. Best of all your humor is the gateway to see how ridiculous these diets are! Keep up the amazing work!

Emma Zurer

2021-09-20 16:52:22 +0000 UTC

First time I've been compelled to become Patreon member for a podcast. I love your humor, foul language, and dedication to the subject. I learned a LOT from the eating disorder one and it completely changed the way I think about fat people. About time, right?!

Natalie Day

2021-09-17 23:55:53 +0000 UTC

I’m sooo excited to be here. I’m thrilled I found your podcast and Altho I’m only 2 episodes in (starting from the beginning) I immediately needed to find a way to support your message. I am a fit pro turned Diet Recovery Coach after 20 years of this bullshit! So now I help women heal in mind body & spirit from the damage of dieting and diet culture. I love my work and I cannot begin to express my gratitude to the 2 of you for having such meaningful conversations about this entire topic!!! I barely know you guys but I already love you. Thanks & I look forward to listening to more!!

Dana Lee

2021-09-10 14:04:48 +0000 UTC

My coworker decided to do the carnivore diet to piss off his vegan neighbors and in the process lost a bunch of weight. He’s very smug, and along with his anti vaxxer spiel, loves to brag how this diet is superior. I’d love a major maintenance phase debunking.

Juney.Pur

2021-09-04 04:38:58 +0000 UTC

I agree about the outdoor industry, I put extraordinary effort into just getting a bike.

Paul Sorensen

2021-09-03 03:50:41 +0000 UTC

Love this! Would also love to see one about clothing, gear, and representation in the outdoor industry. So many people make insulting comments on how there isn't gear because there isn't a market... like fat people don't like to be outdoors!

Micheleen Pennington

2021-09-02 20:09:01 +0000 UTC

Episode Request: a deviation from diets, Any interest in tacking the fashion industry.... there is a lack of quality places to buy clothes in sizes 14 + (unless you order online) but also discrimination of some stores hiring individuals who do not look a certain way.

Alicia Flannery

2021-09-01 22:38:04 +0000 UTC

Yes!! I dropped SO much weight right after having my daughter then gained all the ‘baby weight’ plus some within a year after she was born. Worst part? Everyone congratulated me for ‘kicking that baby weight so quickly’ after I gave birth.

Nicole Roach

2021-09-01 02:14:40 +0000 UTC

I’d love a deep dive into the hCG diet, a deeply restrictive diet (500 calories for up to 8 weeks at a time) that requires prescription injections of a hormone associated with pregnancy and fertility treatments. Since you get the prescription and are supervised at MedSpa type facilities—as opposed to, you know, by clinicians who care about health—I also have a wild theory that some women are using the injections as cheaper alternative to actual fertility treatments.

Elizabeth Ryan

2021-08-31 23:36:20 +0000 UTC

Episode Request: the obsession with bouncing back after pregnancy and weight in general during pregnancy.

Hannah Gruenberg

2021-08-31 14:18:34 +0000 UTC

I would love a bonus ep on how to talk to friends and family about this stuff. Also LOVE the random off topic content (bachelor die hard here in Australia too!)

Naomi

2021-08-30 21:47:21 +0000 UTC

Ahhh I would love Sarah Marshall as a guest on this!!!

Holly Freundlich

2021-08-30 15:59:40 +0000 UTC

Episode requests : Nutri system and the invention of “emotional eating”.

Sarah Cowles

2021-08-28 21:13:05 +0000 UTC

Agree! I had a therapist push OA on me and I didn't know anything about it other than my reaction of "oh F no" then I stared reading up on it...it would have sent me straight back to the ED clinic!

Sarah Cowles

2021-08-28 21:11:59 +0000 UTC

Oh! I paid actual money to a dietitian whose methodology was the Candida Diet. I didn't know this going in, and I was disappointed to learn that, though not before dutifully submitting a poop sample, among other indignities.

Kelly Peeples

2021-08-27 21:28:18 +0000 UTC

Ooh an episode on "The Daniel Fast" would be super interesting and everything on religious fasting!

Kate Naomi Aldridge

2021-08-26 17:46:19 +0000 UTC

Oooh a Sarah Wilson episode would be super good!

Kate Naomi Aldridge

2021-08-26 17:45:47 +0000 UTC

Some show requests: 1. Food Writing Memoirs 2. Alicia Silverstone 3. I was prescribed the LOW FODMAP diet by a dietician 7 years ago and it messed up by body so much over the past 6 years. I'd love to hear an episode on this diet that's supposed to help people with IBS and is being prescribed by doctors and dietitians, yet is also used by some people as a weightless regimen.

Kate Naomi Aldridge

2021-08-26 17:41:20 +0000 UTC

I practice Ayurveda and would love for them to do an episode on it, since it includes diet + lifestyle + spirituality. It would be super interesting!!

Kate Naomi Aldridge

2021-08-26 17:39:39 +0000 UTC

Hi! I’m curious if you guys have ever researched Ayurvedic practices? They’re supposed to be “ancient” and cover a lot of eating regimen that I would label as diet. Yet I find it really interesting that diet practices existed so early in our timeline.

Rachel Becker

2021-08-25 15:24:08 +0000 UTC

Would literally listen to you both review Danielle Steel novels. Thanks for making such a great podcast!!!

John Cummins

2021-08-22 21:46:04 +0000 UTC

This would be a fascinating (and dark) episode. Last I heard, he’s claiming to be a sovereign citizen.

Magda F.

2021-08-19 13:26:39 +0000 UTC

Sugar Bear Hair and all those diet teas! 💀

Magda F.

2021-08-19 13:24:01 +0000 UTC

While eagerly awaiting Tuesday's episode, I was wondering if you'd heard about something called the "Hair metabolic system", and if it's worth an episode or a bonus ep. I was sorting through my paperwork and came across my "results and recommendations". It wasn't sold to me as a diet for weight loss, just as eating the "recommended" foods and avoiding the "non recommended" ones, in recommended proportions for my metabolic type. Today me sees the restriction red flags, and also questions the scientific validity of the mineralogical analysis of my hair. 🤔

Cristina

2021-08-16 13:55:13 +0000 UTC

I'm listening to the Wansink episode and getting sad because I loved Mindless Eating and thus clearly have no idea of how to evaluate information. But I also just joined the Patreon so clearly I'm not holding it against you.

Kristen North

2021-08-13 19:50:47 +0000 UTC

Yes, I tried fit for life the title sold me. It worked while I could do the diet. It was hard to maintain. I don’t think the combining was as important as the author made it seem. Basically your eating fruits, vegetables, protein and some carbs. So yeah, if you eat healthy you’ll be fit for life, but eat a sandwich or a panini and you’ll be fat.

Alicia Flannery

2021-08-12 19:50:50 +0000 UTC

I didn’t remember this one in time for the Fad Diets episode: Fit for Life. Does anyone know about that one? The central idea is that the combination of food is important: never mix carbs and meat, and only eat fruit on its own, for various “scientific” reasons. It was big in the 80’s, I think, and then Suzanne Somers came along in the early 2000’s and repackaged it in her own diet book. Would love to hear more about it!

Phoebe Harris Millman

2021-08-12 14:41:57 +0000 UTC

Please do The Weigh Down Diet, with the lady and the church and her crrrraaazy hair.

Sarah Gardner

2021-08-10 17:40:33 +0000 UTC

I would love an episode on: The VEGAN/plant-based camp —is it just in my city or does it just seem to be an excuse to hide eating disorders under the guise of ethics? /sub-categories: Dr. Gregor, Dr. Fuhrman, Rich Roll et al The book French Women Don’t Get Fat. I read it…I’m still confused. Macrobiotic diets- I like tomatoes so that one didn’t work out for me. Religious diet restrictions. Yuppie coffee and class.

Natasha Wainwright

2021-08-10 15:10:31 +0000 UTC

I had a coworker several years ago tried to lend me a book called "Eating for Beauty" by that David Wolfe guy (he's also a flat Earther, among other wild ideas) and I would LOVE to hear you two go off on this guy's shit!!!

Melissa Pettit

2021-08-09 10:05:38 +0000 UTC

I loved the last episode about the body mass idex. Aubrey mentioned that there was a doctor who insisted that belly fat in particular was a source for poor health and disease. I believe that doctor was the great Sir Dr. Mixalot. I mean, he wouldn't get "Sprung" from an unhealthy body

Jimmy McMillan

2021-08-07 03:52:20 +0000 UTC

A post from the fatdoctoruk on Instagram made me think about this- alcohol is incredibly unhealthy yet socially so acceptable. Smoking is no longer in the same boat but was for a long time. How is the narrative around booze so nonchalant and the focus on health/ weight so strong. How did we get here and who has lobbied so hard for this.

Lana

2021-08-06 22:53:00 +0000 UTC

Would be curious to hear your thoughts on shows like 1000 lb sisters/my 600 lb life. Feels wrong for so many reasons but in 1000 lb sisters they really push the narrative of losing weight for “Heath reasons” — which you are lead to believe is justifiable as one sister can no longer walk and needs an oxygen tank. Maybe I’m approaching this wrong and the show is undeniably fucked up for explicit anti fat bias and making fat people seem categorically lazy, stupid, etc but curious about your thoughts on the show and the shows premise around health.

Sarah Lalevee

2021-08-06 13:49:50 +0000 UTC

I would love to hear y’all tackle all the fasting/supplement/diet apps I keep getting ads for whenever I’m on Instagram. I’m interested not just in the apps but the marketing, who they target, how successful it is, etc.

Kathleen Burke-smith

2021-08-05 12:42:19 +0000 UTC

I would love to hear you explore the many, many adverts for weird food / health things on Crooked Media podcasts. I used to listen to a few of them but became so uncomfortable hearing those endless ads that I'm giving them a wide berth. I dont know which is worse - them promoting that stuff cos they believe it, or simply for the cold hard cash

Emily in Yorkshire

2021-08-04 20:05:15 +0000 UTC

I could listen to y'all talk about anything all day long. I binged all the past episodes too quickly! Please please do an episode about margarine! My father 100% thinks margarine is incredibly healthy for you because it's not butter. When he said that, I heard Aubrey's laugh in my head!

Marisa Sheppard

2021-08-02 15:53:05 +0000 UTC

Yikes. Just keep doing what you're doing and Thank you!

Lisa Featherstone

2021-07-29 05:23:51 +0000 UTC

What I was trying to say is I just joined your patreon because I will listen to you two talk about anything you want to talk about so enjoy your science research based fact finding ding collaboration

Lisa Featherstone

2021-07-29 05:22:33 +0000 UTC

Oh my, sorry about that I'm the worst texter in the universe.

Lisa Featherstone

2021-07-29 05:21:09 +0000 UTC

Just Join your Patriot

Lisa Featherstone

2021-07-29 05:20:38 +0000 UTC

I would LOVE episodes on noom and/or Michael Pollan!!

Mary

2021-07-29 00:11:54 +0000 UTC

Would love to hear about noom/my fitness pal

Amanda Cox

2021-07-28 20:31:32 +0000 UTC

Yes to this!!!

Sarah

2021-07-27 19:56:12 +0000 UTC

Jared Fogle and the "Subway diet". Subway's weight-loss marketing was truly absurd yet was everywhere with Jared until his fall from grace related to child predation and child pornography crimes.

Jackie Bannon

2021-07-27 15:44:22 +0000 UTC

Dr Michael Mosley, the man who made intermittent fasting (via a documentary on the BBC no less!) first into the 5:2 diet, then the 800 kcal a day diet, making it a huge thing in the UK. He wrote the method books; made his wife (co)author of all the branded 5:2/800kcal cookbooks (not that you’d notice, because the other author only gets a credit inside). Despite the fact he constantly gets credited as a GP, he hasn’t actually practiced medicine for decades.

Kore_R

2021-07-27 15:29:28 +0000 UTC

Bone broth diet?! "Doctor" Kellyann?? My sister is on this diet right now, and after I googled this woman, I am getting spammed with Instagram ads for her 🤣 Obviously very legit.

Steffi Langston

2021-07-24 16:48:05 +0000 UTC

Maintenance Phase Drinking Game: Take a shot every time Michael or Aubrey say "AND" with emphasis. Thanks for all your amazing content. I'm so happy to offer a little support (and hopefully help keep more episodes coming)!

Ashley Lindsay Smith

2021-07-22 19:40:29 +0000 UTC

Paleo pete, celebrity chef in Australia - you will love (welll) everything about him...

V T

2021-07-22 12:12:25 +0000 UTC

"Help Lord, the Devil Wants Me Fat!" is, as you might guess, a christian diet book with such gems as the concept of "satan's food stronghold", I have not read it in it's entirety but seems like it might be fun to do a mini ep on. Perhaps a certain satanic panic studying cohost could be a guest :)

Prism

2021-07-22 00:02:45 +0000 UTC

I love the podcast! Not sure if it's been suggested before, but I'd love to hear a deep dive on "Hungry Girl" aka Lisa Lillien. Thank you for all that you do! ❤

Yael Niccum

2021-07-21 19:08:02 +0000 UTC

Thank you so much for making this podcast! I just started listening and I have been binging all of your episodes! I have SO many ideas that would make for good episodes, which include: (1) protein-dense products and products marketed for building muscle mass (think: bro-centric products that are hyper-masculine), (2) cross-fit, orange theory, peloton and other culty exercise groups, (3) Dr. Phil (I'm LOVING all of your Oprah deep dives!), and (4) organic and "all-natural" food products and the nutrition/environmental science implications,. I could go on and on with ideas, but no matter what, I am thankful for all of your work and happy to keep listening!

Jackie Bannon

2021-07-21 16:27:22 +0000 UTC

As someone struggling for literal decades with an eating disorder I find your podcast extremely helpful in finding a recovery mindset (from anorexia) and Ive suggested it to my whole treatment team. I’d love to hear more about ED in males, maybe Queer communities as well.

MelissaEmily

2021-07-17 16:29:58 +0000 UTC

RESEARCH AND METHODOLOGY!!!! I would be interested in hearing you talk about your methods for validating research, your relationship to data, identifying misinformation, etc. Basically a behind-the-scenes of researching an episode. I've been having a lot of medical journalism/misinformation related conversations with my mom and people her age, but I'm finding it difficult to identify what is and isn't real based on anything other than "this guy looks like a hack", and citing papers from 2006 that can just be readily accessed by PDF feels... bad. At the same time, the idea that, for example, Verizon would NOT be perpetuating active harm seems.... well, naiive. And willfully ignorant. Would love to hear about note-taking, verifying good data and science, deciding what is in a "middling" area of fact (Like when y'all say something like, "There seems to be SOME evidence...."), and how y'all come to conclusions based on all that.

Aya Kaufmann

2021-07-14 14:58:15 +0000 UTC

Hi co-hosts! For bonus episodes, I'd love to hear more about your areas of knowledge and expertise outside of the health / wellness / anti-fat bias realms. I'd especially love to hear about Aubrey's community organizing work, and both of your thoughts on queer rights/justice! (Would also love to hear more from Michael about his thoughts on the international development industrial complex - though I've still got his old blog posts to work through for now.) Thanks both for being informative, conscientious, and engaging hosts!

Jenny

2021-07-13 01:34:17 +0000 UTC

Maybe this will be covered in the “fad diet” catchall episode, but I would love to hear one about intermittent fasting and/or genetic specific diets (I’ve seen a lot of intermittent fasting where the amount of fasting time is supposedly optimized by knowing your finger type or genetics).

Eileen Flynn

2021-07-12 15:13:41 +0000 UTC

How “diet” became “clean eating” and “wellness.” It’s BULLSHIT and calling it goji berries doesn’t change that!

Lisa Healy

2021-07-12 12:27:16 +0000 UTC

'Mindfulness' and 'Meditation' being thrown into every staff meeting and work training I encountered in the last few years. I usually spend that time freaking out about all the other things I have to do instead of sitting in this room with 150 other people 'having mindfulness time'.

Amy Price

2021-07-09 17:15:44 +0000 UTC

IG and the impact of it on diet culture, namely celebrity endorsements of garbage products they don’t even use. Thanks, love the show and share it with everyone I know!!

Brooke Goodman

2021-07-09 13:16:18 +0000 UTC

Fertility and BMI- lots of IVF clinics have BMI cut offs but clinics are just protecting their success rates- so women with high BMIs dont have access to services!

Rebecca Dutton

2021-07-08 20:38:46 +0000 UTC

I’m not sure if this was specific to the ED world or if this trend became a “regular” fad diet at any point but I remember like maybe 5 years ago so called mono diets were a big deal in online ED communities, where you would only eat one specific food and I think somehow this was supposed to make your body get used to processing that food more easily and therefor, weight loss? I believe there was some pseudo science explanation to it but the reality was that eating only one type of food (usually a low cal item) was already going to limit the number of calories one could possibly consume in a day without eating an absolutely absurd number of something. The most popular one was bananas, mostly made famous by Frelee the banana girl on YouTube but eggs were also pretty common. I tried my hand at this fad diet first with bananas but became nauseated by the taste after maybe one day. Tried again with eggs and the constipation after like three days was so incredibly painful lol

Alexis

2021-07-08 15:13:05 +0000 UTC

Also comp prep diets - damn - that’s an interesting wellness culture fad 😫

Alisa Marie

2021-07-08 03:24:28 +0000 UTC

So excited for the next bonus on diets!

Alisa Marie

2021-07-08 03:23:53 +0000 UTC

Can y’all do something about the Mastering Diabetes method?

Elaine Lander

2021-07-07 18:37:19 +0000 UTC

I did this diet purportedly from the Mayo clinic which was basically 3 days of grapefruit, beetroot and some bits of meat. I’ve always wondered where it came from. It was about 800 ish calories per day if you count it up.

Alison Lau

2021-07-07 17:59:43 +0000 UTC

My suggestion, after personal experience, is Noom. And also Jenny Craig.

Kristina

2021-07-07 01:26:35 +0000 UTC

I am sure this has been requested before, but I'd love an episode on Jack LaLanne - old school! Charles Atlas too.

Julia Talbot

2021-07-06 16:55:26 +0000 UTC

The keto episode (awesome) got me thinking -- it would be cool to have an episode that explores the physical health cost of all these diets, with a focus on inter-generational dieting and dieting often beginning in childhood or adolescence. Part of my ED recovery was making peace with the fact that my recovered weight is probably higher than it would've been if I hadn't restricted for so long. Now I wonder... is the "o* epidemic" an own-goal, where by dieting to avoid being fat we're making our bodies fatter? Not that there's anything wrong with fatter bodies 😁 (side note: I really want an emoji for "happy fat woman is happy")

Casi N

2021-07-06 15:58:44 +0000 UTC

This is one of those things that sounds too horrible to be true so you know it must be true.

Emily Adams

2021-07-01 17:57:38 +0000 UTC

I would love to hear more of your thoughts on thin people entering “fat” spaces. An IG comment about reflecting on this topic caught my eye.

Danielle Lapare

2021-06-30 17:25:31 +0000 UTC

The recent magnetic tooth clamp horror story led me stories about people having their jaws wired shut for weight loss in the 80s. Its sounds horrific and short-lived but it would be interesting to hear the gory details

Bastilledeb

2021-06-29 23:30:54 +0000 UTC

I have to assume you’ll be covering Goop at some point! I just love takedowns of celebrity lifestyle brands. Just so entertaining.

Parul

2021-06-29 22:40:40 +0000 UTC

Would love an episode on Christian diet culture! Also would love an episode about my fitness pal (dangerously low calorie recommendations and such) and about the myth of calories in/calories out weight loss.

Sloane

2021-06-29 20:29:00 +0000 UTC

I love the podcast! I’d be really curious to hear an episode on Overeaters Anonymous and/or the idea of “food addiction.” I know people in recovery from drug or alcohol addiction who’ve been sober for decades and credit Alcoholics Anonymous with helping them turn their lives around. I don’t know how the “don’t drink/use” tenet gets translated to food, but I’m guessing it’s not good! In my experience, trying to restrict or abstain from particular foods only makes binge eating worse, plus the potential for fatphobia seems off the charts.

Bailey

2021-06-29 15:04:35 +0000 UTC

Please talk about fish oil supplements. Are they actually good or like a failed health culture things for gen x?

Ruth

2021-06-28 19:40:33 +0000 UTC

I love you guys. I don’t agree with everything you say but you never fail to make me laugh. I found this podcast because I love the master cleanse and was looking for a podcast on it. And from there I was hooked. Always waiting for the next installment. I hope you guys do more than twice a month! Love, Alix

Alix

2021-06-28 18:55:13 +0000 UTC

i second this!!!

tjp

2021-06-28 15:40:11 +0000 UTC

I am getting really hopeful that Aubrey and Mike will do an episode on Deepak Chopra as part of their series on Oprah's "wellness" gurus!

Liz Winston

2021-06-26 16:16:19 +0000 UTC

Did the ‘poo doctor’ Gillian McKeith ever make it to the US? She was a top of the class charlatan here in the UK for a disturbing number of years, even having a successful tv show.

Caroline Gerrard

2021-06-26 07:07:45 +0000 UTC

What chiropractors in the US get up to amazed me. Here in the UK they’re really heavily regulated and can’t make any of the health claims or perform alternative treatments that aren’t licensed by their board.

Caroline Gerrard

2021-06-26 07:05:10 +0000 UTC

I just want to hear you talk smack about the bogus research regarding inflammation and chronic illness and d**t culture BS :)

Elisabeth Swim

2021-06-24 20:05:40 +0000 UTC

Veganism for the health of the planet is hard to argue, but I think one of the main issues is asking people on a fixed income that already have chronic health issues that have been exacerbated by being food insecure to spend more of their money on alternative proteins that are not widely available at a realistic cost. And can we please get some better options for vegan cheese!

Meagan Scherzinger

2021-06-23 18:03:10 +0000 UTC

I know it’s a bit further from your general weight and wellness discussions, but I’d love to hear you guys discuss alcohol. The times you’ve mentioned how conflicting advice gets presented in the media about diet always makes me think about alcohol studies too. Not sure if that would be more of a bonus topic or topic topic!

G Young

2021-06-23 07:54:08 +0000 UTC

Hi, and thank you for your work. I wanted to suggest Chiropractic as an episode topic. I recently learned it was created by a magnetic healer who claimed he reinstated the ability to hear to a deaf janitor. I think there may be a twist in the end that it actually works in some. Though as we know, there’s a power in the placebo effect and you may spend upwards of thousands of dollars to be healed by your own innate power. Side effects may include stroke and death.

Jennifer Kern

2021-06-23 03:04:45 +0000 UTC

just got hooked on your podcast, absolutely love love love it. had a close friend who was a case and point of the wellness to q anon pipeline, and it was really validating listening to that episode. would love an episode debunking narratives around 'toxins' because its such a broad word that i think it draws a lot of people into scams and random fads who don't really understand the connotations of that word. would love to hear your takes on the use of that word!

Alexa Ringer

2021-06-22 19:38:41 +0000 UTC

I would love an episode about 'sugar free' diets. I picked up an I quit Sugar book & it was full of recipes with honey, agave nectar etc. What the?!

Sophie Milne

2021-06-22 07:54:49 +0000 UTC

No suggestions, but I love this podcast. As a fat person still struggling to unlearn behaviors/thoughts from a very long lasting ED, I've found this to be one of the most helpful tools in rethinking a lot of the toxic stuff I was taught.

Stephanie Gomez

2021-06-21 12:15:28 +0000 UTC

I loved hearing Aubrey's conversation with Julia Turshen on her podcast, and her raving about Turshen's cookbooks got me curious about what other food or nutrition resources you both DO recommend. Either about cooking, or healthy balanced approaches to eating that aren't tied to toxic diet culture.

Sarah Nowak

2021-06-19 14:02:01 +0000 UTC

Honestly it's not as relevant to your "brand" but I loooved the kinda queer history vibe of the Twinkie defense episode and would love more of that

Ariella Newman

2021-06-17 16:09:24 +0000 UTC

Just leaving this here for Michael https://ideas.ted.com/we-need-to-talk-about-the-orgasm-gap-and-how-to-fix-it/

Kobayashimaru

2021-06-17 04:58:38 +0000 UTC

Love you guys so much! Had a dream that you were the voice over in a prank against me 😂 would love a regular ep on keto/Atkins. And honestly would prob listen to you guys making fart sounds but would particularly love bonus Eps about anything feminism, or keep up with analysis of trash reality tv.

Paige

2021-06-15 23:36:06 +0000 UTC

Hi, first up I love this podcast - you guys have such fun witty chemistry, and the content is really interesting (and heartbreaking and enraging). It’s really having an impact on my very complicated feelings about my father and his weight; and my mum and her life long obsession with weight loss (as Virginia Sole Smith says, the boomers are not ok). Anyway I’m sure these have been recc’d, but I’m super interested in your thoughts on Noom, and intermittent fasting. Also you’ve mentioned that the link between being overweight and various health risks is over simplified; but I still struggle with sorting out complicated feelings about health and weight. Bleurghh god I don’t know what even to think anymore - I still have a lot of years of guilt and weirdness about weight to work through.

Meera Creagh

2021-06-15 23:11:54 +0000 UTC

Super interested in this too!!

Michelle FW

2021-06-14 15:29:36 +0000 UTC

wondering if you might do an episode or bonus content on the new miracle-weight-loss-drug Wagovy?

Susie Steinbach

2021-06-12 15:49:14 +0000 UTC

Also, body dysmorphia would be really interesting to dive into as a topic as well.

Carrie J Sullivan

2021-06-11 18:57:29 +0000 UTC

Just wanna make sure you’re gonna do many, many episodes on Goop!!

Caroline Ferguson

2021-06-10 10:22:57 +0000 UTC

I would love an off-topic Patreon episode about Michael's dislike of Jonathan Franzen! As always, thank you so much Michael and Aubrey for your amazing work. <3

Liz Winston

2021-06-10 01:06:05 +0000 UTC

Noom! I really want to know what y'all think about Noom.

Elizabeth Stern

2021-06-09 15:27:37 +0000 UTC

I would love an episode on Celiac Disease!

Eve

2021-06-09 10:51:19 +0000 UTC

Patrick Holford, please. He's a leading alternative healthcare practitioner in the UK & has written 36 books, among which is "Mental Illness & Schizophrenia: The Nutrition Connection". A colleague became entrenched in his theories & determined that her fatigue was as a result of gluten intolerance & heavy metals in her liver. She found a dentist who agreed to drill out her mercury fillings & replace them with amalgam fillings so that they wouldn't continue to leach into her system. https://www.patrickholford.com

Niamh Kelly

2021-06-09 08:34:13 +0000 UTC

Herbalife and the ridiculously enthusiastic following!

Heather Kevnick

2021-06-09 01:52:35 +0000 UTC

I know it’s months old but could we get an episode on the ridiculously made-up “2000 daily calorie requirement”

Elvaphant

2021-06-09 00:51:37 +0000 UTC

Wii Fit!

Jenna Zimmer

2021-06-09 00:24:20 +0000 UTC

omg I just Googled this and down the rabbit hole byeeeeeeee!

Carrie J Sullivan

2021-06-08 21:50:06 +0000 UTC

I LOVED his show as a kid. I genuinely didn’t understand why people made fun of him. Please do an ep on him, he’s still an idol of mine!

Elvaphant

2021-06-08 20:42:15 +0000 UTC

Mercola The Maker's Diet

Jill Christianson

2021-06-08 18:49:21 +0000 UTC

After the celery juice episode, I would love some bonus content of taste testing weird recipes from old cookbooks.

Jackie Dineen

2021-06-08 01:23:09 +0000 UTC

Yeast/candida being the root of all maladies. I have a friend stuck deep in this rabbit hole...but this is more for a legitimate episode topic. In regards to bonus content...release the uncut Dr. Oz, and I would absolutely listen an angry Mr. Hobbes go off on Elon Musk...or carob. I love you guys!

Skwirrel76

2021-06-08 01:05:27 +0000 UTC

Also, Optifast as an episode idea- I did it a few years ago (before I knew better) on the advice of my doctor and it fucked me up.

Maegan Blackwell

2021-06-07 18:13:58 +0000 UTC

How about a seattle meet up?

Maegan Blackwell

2021-06-07 18:13:00 +0000 UTC

So many great ideas on here! I'd love to hear episodes about keto, paleo, and intermittent fasting. There's a truly wacky diet that just came out called The Celestial Diet (TM) (no joke), would love to hear your take on that too.

Mary Blendermann

2021-06-05 23:52:33 +0000 UTC

Would love to hear an episode on veganism! No hate to the vegans out there at all, I’ve just found veganism to be conflated with health in ways that def seem problematic. Thanks so much for a truly eye opening podcast, you guys are great!!!

Kristin

2021-06-04 22:00:32 +0000 UTC

You might already be aware of it, but I just read this article in The Conversation about an international study on weight stigma. https://theconversation.com/weight-stigma-is-a-burden-around-the-world-and-has-negative-consequences-everywhere-155215

ABay

2021-06-04 13:24:23 +0000 UTC

Noom is terrible. Don't do it. They actually use the metaphor of not listening to the elephant inside of you. They use cutesy and very stupid games and cartoons and phrases to mask the fatphobia.

Lindsay

2021-06-02 17:41:12 +0000 UTC

Thank you both for all your work on this wonderful show! What about Noom? Is it good? Is it bad? Is the same shit in different package?

Jessie Farewell

2021-06-01 22:38:45 +0000 UTC

Intuitive Fasting by Dr. Will Cole with a forward by Gwyneth! wtf. Please break it down for us <3 Love you both - thanks for the work you do. I need constant redirection away from diet culture (because my brain is broken? and gets bamboozled so easily!) your podcasts helps me stay on the road of ED recovery (don't worry, I also work with a skilled ED specialist in therapy - I told her about you two lol)

Rebecca

2021-06-01 22:27:01 +0000 UTC

I would love an episode looking at the food/health/diet culture for Seventh Day Adventists -- I'll admit I'm not too knowledgeable on it myself, but my dad is ex-SDA and my mom has always ranted about the weird SDA food culture she saw in his family. There's even an Oprah tie-in -- I believe she did on episode about them at one point, and when I googled it, I found an article mentioning them on Oprah's website written by Dr. Oz! https://www.oprah.com/health/the-secrets-of-the-blue-zones/9 If it's not enough for its own episode, it could be interesting to include in a broader religion and food episode too, which I've seen a few other comments suggest!

melissa m

2021-06-01 20:56:06 +0000 UTC

Eat right for your blood type and the Suzanne Sommers diet. My mom was reading a different diet book and imposing it regularly on our family

Jennifer Robbins

2021-06-01 18:52:36 +0000 UTC

Goop!

V T

2021-06-01 18:24:03 +0000 UTC

All the Oprah-verse horrible diet books. Peter Walsh's Does this Clutter Make My Butt Look Fat (ugh).

Steph

2021-06-01 14:59:15 +0000 UTC

PLEASE tell us about the remnant fellowship church! This weight loss cult leader just died in a plane crash and the whole saga is absolutely bonkers.

Jody Lipkin

2021-06-01 00:44:20 +0000 UTC

An episode on PCOS!!

Charlotte Monaghan

2021-06-01 00:04:41 +0000 UTC

Would love you opinion if all this gut/micro biome buzz is legitimate or a bunch of hoo hah

Eleanor Sheers

2021-05-31 12:49:20 +0000 UTC

Honestly the Ed McMahon episode still makes me chuckle randomly. I keep thinking of someone just living on steak and shrimp cocktail and well...it’s kind of darkly hilarious to me

Alexa

2021-05-31 07:01:39 +0000 UTC

Oof okay this might be more like an episode idea and I’m almost horrified to suggest it but do you think you’ll do an episode on Richard Simmons?

Delaney French

2021-05-30 23:24:59 +0000 UTC

I’d love another podcast on vintage diet books! One of my favorites is the 1955 Better Homes & Gardens Diet Book, in which they recommend asking your doctor for the “quite popular drug” amphetamine. It also has a lot of horrible alliterative chapter sub headers, such as “the high cost of corpulence” and “it hurts to be hefty.”

Holland Dauterive

2021-05-29 18:35:46 +0000 UTC

I loved that episode. Hahahahah. Anal leakage.

Samantha Jean Sumampong

2021-05-29 17:02:50 +0000 UTC

There is a popular dancer dietician who emphasis the importance of intuitive eating.

Samantha Jean Sumampong

2021-05-29 16:59:41 +0000 UTC

A companion episode to Celery Juice about how Dr. Brown's Cel Ray Tonic (carbonated water, sugar, corn syrup, and celery seed flavor) was...the celery juice of its day!

Anna B

2021-05-29 03:09:01 +0000 UTC

Have you ever heard of “intuitive eating”? It seems to me that it’s, fascinatingly, an anti-diet that uses the fad diet playbook.

Rebecca Skeldon

2021-05-29 00:38:34 +0000 UTC

i would LOVE a bonus ep about the "calories in calories out" myth!

Sarah Brunet

2021-05-28 19:29:29 +0000 UTC

Heyyy, love the show (obviously)! I would love for you to talk about feeding as a fetish thing. I think there are a lot of myths and misconceptions about this - I myself don't know a whole lot about it, so I'd be curious what you find

Kobayashimaru

2021-05-28 18:00:25 +0000 UTC

I love your podcast soooo much, it engages me like no other podcast has! For bonus content, maybe an episode about toxic TikTok beauty trends (like self-comparison challenges, or challenges designed to make users feel bad about their appearances, like the face flipping camera trick) and/or how misinformation is spread on TikTok? I’ve heard multiple people cite a TikTok video on how the COVID vaccine apparently makes people magnetic if they get it, and that’s why they refuse to get it 🙄 anyway, whatever y’all do, I’m here for it! 😊💞

Noelle Bishop

2021-05-28 13:10:20 +0000 UTC

I listen to your podcasts on repeat over and over, i absolutely love your dynamic and content. Would love to hear an episode about microwaves- do they actually distort the food what was that about?!, Khloe Kardashians "revenge body" show, the bmi ofc, Atkins, keto, when eggs were called "natures cyanide pill", heart foundation tick of approval, would love some mum debunking too like expensive "breastfeeding biscuits" lol... Feels like the list is endless.

V T

2021-05-28 10:30:36 +0000 UTC

I would love to see you guys do an episode on the scam of Belle Gibson and The Whole Pantry!

Stevie Sheer

2021-05-28 02:26:42 +0000 UTC

Would LOVE an episode on gastric bypass/weight loss surgery!! Success rate, long term effects, etc. Thanks for making the show, my girlfriends and I have binged on them all and discuss together!

Amy Stapleton

2021-05-27 22:22:38 +0000 UTC

Would love a collab with the ladies at Yoga is Dead podcast !!

Eleanor Sheers

2021-05-27 22:12:25 +0000 UTC

I'm sure it's been mentioned already but one of my biggest diet/wellness pet peeves is our obsession with designer water! We've gone from Evian to alkaline water to electrolyte water and a bottle costs a fortune! I'd love to hear a deep dive on that.

Mallory S

2021-05-27 17:36:03 +0000 UTC

You could do a lot with an episode on the politics of food allergies. I have none myself, but I probably learned "do not read the comments" from articles like "Ball Park Hosts Peanut-free Night".

Rebecca

2021-05-27 11:50:53 +0000 UTC

Yes to Keto episode!

Jyothi Ramamurthy

2021-05-27 03:47:38 +0000 UTC

Please, please, please do an episode on all these “nutrition shops” that are popping up EVERYWHERE that are really just a front for Huns shilling Herbalife. (My proudest moment this week was making some girl do a dirty delete on our town FB page after she was promoting her mom’s new “Nutrition Shop” that was just Herbalife. An episode on Intermittent Fasting- my work bestie has jumped on the trend and swears that it has changed his life. He started listening to this YouTube “doctor” who also insists that fat people don’t live as long because their bodies have to work harder to digest their food than thin people. It’s such a struggle because he’s not a moron, despite how much he sounds like one sometimes. Keto and Arbonne’s “Thirty Days to Healthy, anytime I can listen to someone trash Oprah or Jillian Michaels is a great day in my book, and the essential oils industry (which is downright dangerous)are all episodes that I would love to repeatedly share on social media.

Erin Fitzpatrick

2021-05-27 01:46:32 +0000 UTC

yes!

Alicia Penney

2021-05-27 00:34:58 +0000 UTC

we're all waiting for the fat stigma in medicine episode but it's gonna be a tough one. so many of us are mildly to severely traumatized

Alicia Penney

2021-05-27 00:32:54 +0000 UTC

omg essential oils, ugggghhhh

Subscribenstein's Monster

2021-05-27 00:29:29 +0000 UTC

Also probably more “regular episode” content but dying to hear you all talk about Keto diet, essential oils and milk/the dairy industry! Love the show!

Erin hocking

2021-05-27 00:22:55 +0000 UTC

ooooh yes this

Alicia Penney

2021-05-27 00:21:53 +0000 UTC

Yes, or how something can be labeled “natural” or “organic!”

Erin hocking

2021-05-27 00:21:01 +0000 UTC

I LOVE your podcast and my pet peeve is actually a perfect fit for an episode. my super duper pet peeve is what I call the "hydration cult" - the super ubiquitous idea that you need to drink x amount of water per day, and it will help you with any number of ailments (if one more person tells me to drink water when i have a headache so help me), and help you lose weight etc. The idea that if your pee isn't clear you are going to die of dehydration etc. turns out you have a handy dandy set of hydration sensors called "kidneys" and "brain" and they let you know when you need a drink by making you thirsty. even the "you need 8 cups a day" thing came from a single study that of course didn't explicitly say that at all. it's just so frustrating to me that this is such an embedded idea that people think if they don't need to pee every 20 mins they are being unhealthy. and people think I'm crazy when i talk about it, haha.

Alicia Penney

2021-05-27 00:15:43 +0000 UTC

i recently looked up information on how to get my cat to a healthy weight and it was so gross the way it is written about! definitely reeked of human anti-fat bias.

Alicia Penney

2021-05-27 00:08:13 +0000 UTC

Dammit, I hit the wrong button. Anyway, I frequently hear a lot of pet owners and vets talk about the dangers of being overweight re an animal’s health, which sounds pretty similar to people sharing their “concern” about my health with me due to my being fat. Not sure if there’s anything there, but figured it mention it nonetheless. Thanks so much for your hard and amazing work. Love you guys!

Amanda Starr

2021-05-26 20:44:01 +0000 UTC

I love love love your show and have been listening since the beginning, as I’ve followed Aubrey’s writing for several. This may sound kinda weird as a topic, but I’m wondering about anti fat bias being directed at pets. As a dog and horse owner, I hear a lot from vets and other pet w

Amanda Starr

2021-05-26 20:41:00 +0000 UTC

Taste test more shitty diet foods, please. Your reactions to the celery juice were delightful.

Erica M

2021-05-26 20:12:09 +0000 UTC

I’ve recently been “influenced” to try sea moss. Have you heard anything about this stuff? The influencer is my neighbor, and he reminded me of the master cleanse guy so much I recommended he listen to that podcast.

Kvaz

2021-05-26 17:18:39 +0000 UTC

I absolutely love the podcast and burned through the current episodes in just a few days! I would love to hear an episode on intermittent fasting.

Anna

2021-05-26 16:04:33 +0000 UTC

How about a live pizza slumber party on zoom!

Kassandra Rae

2021-05-26 15:39:26 +0000 UTC

I would love just reaction videos of you all exposing the other host to some ridiculous health trend. Like watching Michael navigate through the Goop website with commentary.

Shawna Taets

2021-05-26 15:24:25 +0000 UTC

First of all, best podcast. You guys are great. Would love an episode on Dr. Bernstein!

Jennifer Bush

2021-05-26 14:11:08 +0000 UTC

Another vote for an episode/bonus on weight and pregnancy- it’s deeply fucked up how scared we make women of gaining too much weight when not gaining ENOUGH is actually associated with vastly worse outcomes for both mom and baby. Personal experience- I had serious complications that prevented me from gaining enough weight during my first pregnancy, my son was born early and dangerously small, and anxiety destroyed my appetite such that by the time he got home from NICU I was below pre-pregnancy weight and my body felt completely out of control, and I STILL had people who KNEW about the health problems congratulate me on “getting my body back so quickly.” So. Fucked. Up.

Ariel Schieler

2021-05-26 13:43:43 +0000 UTC

an episode on how Jenny Craig diets came around and work would be fascinating too! I have a cousin who actually put herself in thousands of dollars of debt to do that diet TWICE and yet now she’s heavier than ever going into her 40s. But when she was on it it got to the point where she got skinny enough that she was happy yet JC told her if she lost 20 more pounds they’d offer her advertisement opportunities (she didn’t take it, but that always blew my mind considering how good she looked for her size at the time of the offer). That company is so shady there’s gotta be some documentation on how the food works and the cooperate dark side

Sarah McLean

2021-05-26 05:35:07 +0000 UTC

I don’t think this has much to do with body size or weight loss, but it’s definitely out there on the fringes of the wellness world— how about an episode on urine therapy? You know, since Mike hates talking about poo so much, maybe this’ll be easier for him. But since your pee is free, maybe no one is making money off of this... yet...

anna chang

2021-05-26 02:32:15 +0000 UTC

You guys rock! While I was already and continue to be a fan of You're Wrong About, Maintenance Phase quickly became one of my favorite podcasts as soon as I found out about it. As for episode ideas, how about that destroyer of friendships the 'Raw Foods' diet?

Subscribenstein's Monster

2021-05-26 02:09:29 +0000 UTC

How about fat characters in kids' books? How often do they exist for comic relief or to teach a lesson? (I say kids' books mainly because those are more likely to be reread and intended to be instructive)

Rebecca

2021-05-26 00:28:18 +0000 UTC

Boggarts : Wizards / Diet Industrial Complex : You Guys Your podcast hit at just the right moment for me. Thank you for putting out such important stuff about these bullshit industries that prey upon the fears we have of our own bodies.

Jackson

2021-05-26 00:13:57 +0000 UTC

Protein shakes from muscle heads to main stream how did we get here?

Paula Stankevitz

2021-05-25 23:43:30 +0000 UTC

Seconded!

Jean

2021-05-25 23:31:05 +0000 UTC

Great idea! This could also include a historical angle - Spartans as a people considered diet, exercise, and strength to be indicative of quality of character (which is broadly true of Greek culture, but the Spartans to a neurotic extent)

Jean

2021-05-25 23:23:15 +0000 UTC

This is a great idea! Lindi West talks about intentionally looking at big bodies in sensual and sexy poses/clothes in her book Shrill. If im remembering correctly, she makes the same point about media presentation being largely responsible for our unreflective statements like "big bodies are objectively less attractive". There are also great IG accts sharing sexy fat folks being sexy - it's a glorious exercise in re-learning what's beautiful. Would love an episode on this topic!

Jean

2021-05-25 23:19:55 +0000 UTC

Seconding the request about legumes!

Jean

2021-05-25 23:12:37 +0000 UTC

This is THE BEST PODCAST EVER. I love you guys so much & really appreciate what you’re doing together! My suggestion would be intermittent fasting...I think it’s a possible path to anorexia?

Megan

2021-05-25 22:51:54 +0000 UTC

+1 on post-pregnancy "bouncing back." (Well, +1 to all of these really.)

Lauren D.

2021-05-25 21:14:11 +0000 UTC

Please, please, please take on Whole30 and/or paleo and/or keto! I would especially love to hear the Audrey & Michael take on how the first X number of days on the diet you feel like shit, experience malaise, feel irritable with everyone around you, etc. because it is "working." And all of the weird rules like no legumes! What does a diet have against beans, I ask you!? I'd love a bonus episode delving into the requirements that people lose weight before a surgery - like gender-affirming surgeries, hip replacements, etc. Is there any merit to this? I have such skepticism that encouraging people to crash diet before a major surgery is in any way a good idea that will support health and wellbeing and good surgical outcomes.

Lauren D.

2021-05-25 21:12:47 +0000 UTC

Hi and thank you for my absolute favorite podcast! A thing that probably isn’t specific enough for an episode theme but that has always fascinated me is the way certain foods get labeled as healthy or unhealthy based not-so-much on their actual nutritional value but on their exclusivity and potential for distinction (sorry, sociologist who read too much Bourdieu here). The best example of this that I personally encountered was in the forums of a fitness app, where people (mostly girls in high school/college) were discussing the evils of potatoes and sharing tips on how to avoid the potatoes their well-meaning parents and grandparents were trying to feed them. Potatoes are super nutritious and much lower in calories than, say, brown rice, quinoa or oatmeal, all of which were endorsed by the same crowd. I know you’ve touched on this in several episodes, especially when talking about the kinds of foods that get hyped (just started listening to the celery juice episode), so maybe all I really wanted to say is that I love your podcast (so much!) and I’m so happy I finally found two people who have the conversations about food and society out loud that I’ve been having in my head for these last ten years!

Kerstin H

2021-05-25 20:11:35 +0000 UTC

I really like your suggestion of a Q&A or advice bonus! While listening to the show I've thought of a few questions I wish I could ask you guys! Also, this may be more of a regular episode thing, but I was recently reminded of that time in the 2000s when there was that whole "Spartan" adjacent fitness craze. Remember when there were things labeled as "spartan workouts" and all the "spartan races' where people ran through a bunch of mud and stuff started? I feel like it was sort of a pre-cursor to cross-fit and throwing stuff around in a black room. It was all very weird and I wish I remembered how the heck it started.

Allie L.

2021-05-25 19:31:40 +0000 UTC

I would be really interested in an episode about the McDonalds obesity lawsuits from the early 2000's. I vaguely remember McDonalds being sued for contributing to obesity but I don't remember what ever happened in the end.

Susan Moore

2021-05-25 19:10:46 +0000 UTC

I feel like they should do a Maintenance Phase/You’re Wrong About crossover Oprah megasode

Jennifer Gutierrez

2021-05-25 18:56:56 +0000 UTC

I would love an episode (or a series! But I would settle for an episode ;) ) On the intersection between religion and wellness/eating. Not necessarily Christianity and wellness, could be any religion. I would love to hear about positive/negative effects, what are religious eating practices that have turn out to be really beneficial/not beneficial over time, what about cultural appropriation, how is all of this shifting... And why do people often fixate on food and weight in relation to spirituality? Some relation to self and control, a way to be holy/pure/good, something else? I'm deconstructing what I believe atm, questioning everything, and it's something that I've seen echo through my faith--how food, diet, and wellness were presented as yet another aspect that needed to be controlled and regulated rather than just... Food!

Maria

2021-05-25 18:54:59 +0000 UTC

Can't wait for the bonus podcasts, mentioned on today's episode, celery juice!

M Dunne

2021-05-25 17:12:44 +0000 UTC

This might be of interest. Cambridge Diet. People died. I was on this. I was 12 years old. https://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/16/garden/personal-health-044873.html#:~:text=Vigorous%20exercise%20while%20on%20such,six%20deaths%20among%20Cambridge%20dieters.

Kathryn

2021-05-25 16:39:08 +0000 UTC

Girl, SAME. It's so upsetting.

Denise Cormaney

2021-05-25 15:36:22 +0000 UTC

I love the episodes on individual diets or diet books. Some more ideas: Slim-Fast, Suzanne Somers "food combining" diet, Special K diet, Shangri-La diet (this one's a bizarro book!), and the alkalizing diet. (Sadly, after I began listening to your podcast, I started a list of the diets I've been on in my life--not number of the times I've been on a diet, just the number of different diets I've tried--and stopped at 20. For context, I consider myself an average American woman in her 40s who's never had a diagnosable eating disorder.)

Anne

2021-05-25 14:33:18 +0000 UTC

I love this idea!

Aino S

2021-05-25 10:58:36 +0000 UTC

GREAT idea! I have a dear friend who had this surgery and yeah, it was 100% ridiculous, the hoops she had to jump through to get to it.

Carrie J Sullivan

2021-05-24 17:23:18 +0000 UTC

Ok, so first real quick, I am so excited to be Patreon-ing for my first time! Yay! For episode ideas, I'd love a historical retrospective on body size and cultural attitudes and how they've evolved. From what I understand (and I could toooootally be wrong, hence the idea) it used to be that size at one point was synonymous with wealth so being bigger was a positive thing. And then there were periods where size was celebrated in art, like the Rubenesque era, but really how big of a thing was that for that time? And how have our ideas of what fat even IS - how it is measured and defined - changed and evolved? A sort-of fat historical retrospective, if you will. Thank you for doing the show, I love it!

Carrie J Sullivan

2021-05-24 17:21:38 +0000 UTC

OMG! You just reminded me of a podcast where they skimmed over this policy at Oral Roberts University and how they would "encourage" students to lose weight before they could graduate. I looked it up and it was a total thing. Yes to a deep dive on this topic! Thank you, Laura, for suggesting it!

Simka

2021-05-24 13:12:01 +0000 UTC

Outtakes/“deleted scenes” (assuming there are recorded conversations that didn’t make the final cut? 👀🤞) would be cool! And seeing “behind the scenes” pictures of filming areas or processes and stuff, like Michael’s face when he’s forced to talk about “ba-mus” (I had to pause and almost died laughing when he deadpanned “I fucking hate this” after he said “evacuatory diarrhea” in the Olestra episode)

Sarah McLean

2021-05-24 08:14:32 +0000 UTC

I can tell you from personal experience that high intensity workouts will fuck your hormones right up if you’re not careful! There are quite a few nutritionists who will tell you to dial back intensity and eat more for better health.

Laura Patterson

2021-05-20 16:54:54 +0000 UTC

I’d love a deep dive into some of the fitness/wellness trends that get tied to evangelical or conserving Christianity. Anything from idealized womanhood to programs like Run4God. I...might can recommend some materials you can start with, scholarly and otherwise.

Laura Patterson

2021-05-20 16:53:38 +0000 UTC

This would be interesting!!

Irram

2021-05-17 01:57:19 +0000 UTC

Hi! I LOVE your podcast, it is my favorite and I keep forcefully messaging my friends with episode links. I would really enjoy a dive into the wellness "trends" in the West that have been co-opted and commercialized from Eastern cultures. (Yoga, acupuncture, chi, etc.). And then also with the rumors surrounding the origins of Covid and the flip side of it resulting in stigma. Especially with all of the violence against AAPI folks in the U.S. Thank you for your consideration!

Selina

2021-05-13 04:03:58 +0000 UTC

I would love an episode on CrossFit and other intensity workouts! I’ve always wondered what the effects on the body would be!

Halle Kevern

2021-05-11 16:33:41 +0000 UTC

I would love to hear bonus episode about: 1- Noom (please, please!) 2- Post pregnancy weight loss/ bouncing back 3- Keto (and its impact on your metabolism long-term) 4- Intermittent fasting 5- Calories-in-calories-out 6- The (impossible) battle against cellulite Thanks!!

Erin

2021-05-11 08:15:33 +0000 UTC

I joined the Patreon specifically to ask if you plan to do an episode on bariatric surgery. I had a gastric bypass in 2007 and a) I'm still fat, b) an episode of Oprah I watched in like 1988 had a huge influence on me, and c) the ridiculous hurdles you have to jump just to get surgery are worth talking about. Just as an example, I was required to take phentermine (half of Fen-Phen) and engage in other shifty weight loss practices to prove they didn't work before I could be approved for surgery. Anyway, it's a rich topic.

Laura Giesecke

2021-05-11 02:29:38 +0000 UTC

Maybe some mini-episodes or "book club" style episodes? I would love to hear more from Aubrey's diet book collection. :P The Ed McMahon episode was fun!

Niki Roberts

2021-05-05 14:14:21 +0000 UTC

I'm 43 years old. Am I too young to be adopted by Mike & Aubrey?

Mike Lightman

2021-05-05 10:47:38 +0000 UTC

This one is a bit amorphous, but here’s what I’d love to hear: How to help kids in our orbit to develop body acceptance, critical thinking re: diet & exercise fads, and mindsets/movements toward fat justice. TL;DR Please re-parent us.

J M

2021-05-04 00:16:49 +0000 UTC

I’d love a chronology of weight loss/diet fads

Cipora Cohon

2021-05-03 20:55:34 +0000 UTC

How about Curves?

Hannah Foulger

2021-05-01 17:18:13 +0000 UTC

I would be very interested in hearing your takes on The Swan, What Not to Wear, and tv makeover shows in general. I remember the trend in the 90s and 2000s of makeover episodes on every daytime talk show, as well.

Heather Bethards

2021-04-30 17:27:12 +0000 UTC

I can't even express how much I love your podcast. It is changing my brain and my life - like Moon Juice! :D I would love to hear you guys talk about the "Trim/Healthy/Hot mom" phenomenon, like the books by Barrett and Allison. I love (Ie I do NOT love) how mothers are evidently responsible for EVERYTHING. And if you're a failure in your hotness, you're a failure to your family and your children will suffer the consequences for years. I'm assuming. You both bring me so much knowledge and joy - thank you!

Renee MeowMeow Beans

2021-04-29 19:09:18 +0000 UTC

I found this podcast from the Dr Oz one shared on "You're Wrong About" and even though it isn't a topic I would have neccessarily sought out I have found it so entertaining and informative! It has made me think a bit more about my own biases as well. Thank you! As far as thoughts for current episodes/ bonus content: Adkins would be an interesting one as would your thought on those TLC shows that focus on obesity like 600 lbs life etc (or that Ruby show from awhile back? I think I read an article somewhere about her and how she faired after the show)

Lauren

2021-04-29 03:05:50 +0000 UTC

Adding to the workplace discussion - would love to hear about companies that incentivise weight loss and is this actually legal? I’ve read about Bezos’ purchase of Whole Foods and offering staff higher discounts according to “healthy weights”. My anger over this is increasing as I write!

Jennifer Chaput

2021-04-28 02:47:03 +0000 UTC

This is likely a regular episode topic, but intermittent fasting is definitely one I'd love to hear about. Thanks for being amazing!

Tiff Reagan

2021-04-26 18:37:57 +0000 UTC

I’m loving your podcast! Thank you for calling out Oprah as a shareholder of WW - it’s disappointing that she makes money off of “failed” dieting attempts. Would love a show on weight stigma in medicine. As a person with multiple chronic illnesses, its so exhausting having to constantly fight this battle.

Jennifer Chaput

2021-04-26 13:29:22 +0000 UTC

I'm going to echo workplace wellness tracking incentives/10k steps/Fitbit etc. I've done a little bit of research into it but I know you two would dig up the goods.

Phoebe Keleman

2021-04-26 00:05:35 +0000 UTC

I would love a miniature series on the factors that upend Calories-In-Calories-Out. Like the role of the gut biome. I was fascinated by a story of a woman who people would say had a very "healthy" weight. She got sick and needed a fecal matter transplant and got it from a sample from her obese daughter. Within a year, the mom became obese herself without changing her diet and exercise habits. People hear "calories in, calories out" all of the time and I think it makes people think weight loss is that simple and anyone who gains and doesn't lose weight is just lazy or lacks will power. But hardly anyone ever hears specifically why it isn't as simple as CICO. There are other factors, and even I don't know them well. Hormones, insulin response, genetics, yada yada yada. I'd love to learn more.

Susan Mottet

2021-04-25 19:38:04 +0000 UTC

What would be interesting is discussion of doctors requiring weight loss before donor insemination. I’ve been a “choice mom” for 17 years, mid fat then and now, and I’m hearing more and more how doctors won’t do the “procedure” until weight loss because of the perceived risks during pregnancy. And in my experience many, but by no means all, choice moms are fat. So fat women who want kids are thwarted at every turn—picked last in the marriage/dating pool, and are blocked in choosing to become parents on their own.

April Lashbrook

2021-04-21 00:43:52 +0000 UTC

A friend of mine is trying to get pregnant via artificial insem. They couldn’t give her anasthesia when an embryo wasn’t viable and they had to remove it. I don’t understand that 🤔 so pregnancy and “obesity” or something related

Brooke Mancuso

2021-04-19 19:21:57 +0000 UTC

I would love to see an episode about obesity and joint replacement surgery and foot care (weird, I know). My mom needed knee replacement surgery on which I partially blame a lifetime of riding and training horses, but she was told she couldn't get it until she lost 50 lbs, a fifth of her bodyweight. You know what makes losing weight hard, having to steel yourself everytime you walk. I have plantar fasciitis, and constantly get told to just lose weight and it will go away. Again, it's really fucking hard to lose weight when you have to get you mind in the right place to walk.

Teach Peace

2021-04-18 15:46:42 +0000 UTC

Aubrey! I just bought your book! But I had to order it so I checked out a copy from my library to read in the meantime! I'm only 35 pages in so far but I love it! I can't wait to read more!

Susan Moore

2021-04-17 00:11:14 +0000 UTC

An episode on weight-loss surgeries like gastric bypass, lapbands, lyposuction etc. Im sure it was capitalism all along but still would be interesting!

Alisha Halgren

2021-04-16 02:49:07 +0000 UTC

yes! i know a few other folks who put their source lists as their patreon content

sunshine

2021-04-13 16:26:06 +0000 UTC

voting on potential episodes would be fun!

sunshine

2021-04-13 16:24:23 +0000 UTC

Mini episodes or bonus episodes on different diet products and how terrible they are

Sarah Hatten

2021-04-13 16:23:26 +0000 UTC

You don’t need to make any extra content, just post clips of you both laughing. It brings the joy!

Postapocjen

2021-04-13 03:59:40 +0000 UTC

CROSSOVER EPISODE!!!

Holly Freundlich

2021-04-12 20:08:12 +0000 UTC

I just joined this patreon, so I apologize if this has already been mentioned (there were too many comments to read through).... I would love an episode about racism and fat bias with Sabrina Strings as a guest. Also I would love to hear an episode about cultural appropriation in the wellness industry; I know you touched on it in the Moon Juice episode. I would LOVE a pelaton deep dive- so much room for humor. Any excuse to bring in Sonya Renee Taylor as a guest would be welcome!

Holly Freundlich

2021-04-12 19:50:36 +0000 UTC

I would love an ep on the effects of fad diets and diet tv on kids! I grew up w a mom on Jenny Craig or similar programs for years, we would watch biggest loser and this EVIL show called “Honey we’re killing the kids” during dinner, and it caused me to feel so much shame about my body. Obviously I need therapy more than an episode, but any of the above topics would be so exciting to hear more about!!

Anissa Riviere

2021-04-12 15:31:06 +0000 UTC

A crossover episode with Sawbones is my fondest wish

Ginger Nealon

2021-04-12 03:22:17 +0000 UTC

How did some foods become labeled as "bad" like corn syrup?

Lindsey Fowler

2021-04-09 05:53:45 +0000 UTC

Thanks so much for an amazing show! I've already listened to all the episodes more than once. Like a lot of people, I'd love to hear a main episode about Noom. Also, a main episode on Whole 30, which I have tried, and on which I was sooo hungry all the time. I'm very interested in fad diets in general. Thanks again for being so informative and entertaining!

Anja Wade

2021-04-08 00:48:42 +0000 UTC

Mega culpa if this has been suggested but maybe a care and keeping of fat bodies and how the personal hygiene industry is geared toward straight sized bodies? As someone who matured into a fat body with fewer fat people around me it’s not a discussion I see

Lauren Seals

2021-04-06 21:37:27 +0000 UTC

I'd love to hear more about body positivity...and the pitfalls. I love Lizzo and she does so much to share her body and her fitness and positivity, but people are such shits. Jameela Jamil and Celeste Barber keep it real and call it out, but it still seems like a minefield.

Allison Patterson

2021-04-05 23:47:06 +0000 UTC

Yes...would love hearing about Keto.

Allison Patterson

2021-04-05 23:44:23 +0000 UTC

I would love to hear your take on the keto diet! I actually did it for 3 weeks because it can have mood stabilizing benefits and while it did seem to “help,” I was...just so ill. And craving fruit like there was no tomorrow. I’d love to know more about how it went from “diet for kids with epilepsy” to mainstream.

anna b

2021-04-04 23:41:26 +0000 UTC

Richard Simmons could be a whole multi-part series, I feel like.

Melanie Cundiff

2021-04-04 21:33:14 +0000 UTC

I watched a YouTube video about Mikhaila Peterson and it would be a great basis for an episode.

Brian Walters

2021-04-03 23:22:23 +0000 UTC

Raw food fads are pretty ridiculous, and some of the pseduo-celebs/influencers are highly entertaining. There are many fun rabbit holes, like those who claim that this diet made their eyes change color!

Rachel Goodman

2021-04-02 18:49:35 +0000 UTC

I have a couple other thoughts/maybe suggestions? First is the fetishization of fat bodies and fat sex workers experiences. In my past experiences I feel like the major selling point was my "different" (than mainstream porn) body type. It can really get to a person. The other is maybe less viable and possibly just me needing to vent but I work in a salon now and I cannot go a single day without diet talk. Every single day I have to listen to people talk about how ashamed they are of their bodies and all the crazy things they're trying to change it. I just overheard a conversation about making a cheesecake that's little to no carbs or something? He used xylitol instead of sugar and claims it was delicious but all I could think was that sounds like a lot of diarrhea.

nina ♡

2021-04-02 16:16:03 +0000 UTC

This is likely not enough for a whole episode but I just need to tell someone this. One of the many diets I tried in my life was the Weigh Down Workshop, which was half diet and half bible study and we basically prayed to weigh less!!! Ahhhh!!! I was a teen. I just googled it and it still exists. Nooooo!

Ansley W

2021-04-01 11:18:41 +0000 UTC

Came here to say this!

Ansley W

2021-04-01 11:10:14 +0000 UTC

Love this podcast! It's been really helpful for my pandemic-coping and my eating disorder/fatphobia recovery (using "fatphobia" intentionally there). Topic suggestion: I think we don't talk enough about how our actual sexual attraction to different people is shaped by the media. We think of it as this inherent thing... "oh, it's not that I don't like fat people, I'm just not _sexually attracted to them_"... when really there are so many socialized aspects of attraction. E.g., I think there was a fun genital-electrode-based study (when are those not fun) that showed that people who are exposed to images of fat people for a period of time show more attraction to those people. Maybe. I dunno.

Casi N

2021-03-31 13:21:26 +0000 UTC

Pick any advertisement (just any old thing lying around!) and riff about the anti-fat bias it's using to sell it's product? Pick any old piece of media, or comment you received from childhood that taught you anti-fat bias, and riff about what your current selves could say to put that shit in the garbage where it belongs? Just a couple ideas for the bonus ep prompt. Love you both and your extended podcast family, you've really helped me learn (and unlearn) soooo much!

bre lopuch

2021-03-31 01:09:06 +0000 UTC

A focus on sports-related disordered eating would be interesting!

Margaret Ross

2021-03-31 00:27:31 +0000 UTC

Hearing your views on pre-partum and post-partum bodies would be fascinating. The pre-partum period is kind of the only societally sanctioned time a woman can gain weight, as long as they don't gain too much (see the media's treatment of Kim Kardashian and others, as well as the chapter on weight gain from Expecting Better). During the post-partum period we are told to "bounce back" and expect to shed pounds immediately to return to our original bodies (or better) despite the wierdness of recovering from childbirth, complications, abdominal separation, not sleeping, caring for a newborn, etc. One of the big inducements women are given to breastfeed is how much weight they will loose (not actually true.) It would be amazing to get your take!

Laura

2021-03-29 23:55:46 +0000 UTC

Id love to see some content about the gender bias and fertility myths with obesity.

Amie Karney

2021-03-29 13:19:10 +0000 UTC

I don’t know if this topic would fill a full episode, but I came across “fat freezing” recently (officially labelled “cool sculpting” but FF obviously seems to be a better marketing strategy..) but perhaps if not enough. an episode including several of these highly risky, not overly successful procedures..?

Sarah M

2021-03-28 01:12:12 +0000 UTC

Would love a community chat thread. I'm a fat person with a straight sized partner, family and friends. I'd love a space to chat to other fat folx about fat experiences xx

IncludeLydia

2021-03-27 23:08:42 +0000 UTC

Would love a bonus episode about strategies for talking about fatphobia and fat bias with friends! 🙏🏼❤️

Christie Thompson

2021-03-27 12:36:11 +0000 UTC

Letting us listen to you watch ads for wellness products and your reactions? Some q&as / ask me anything type posts? Cut for time content...

Jennifer Mateer

2021-03-27 03:46:52 +0000 UTC

An episode about waist trainers/corsets would be cool!

Deja Feria

2021-03-26 17:16:41 +0000 UTC

I don't know if this is more of a maintenance phase or you're wrong about sort of topic, but I would love if you guys did an episode about MSG!!!!

Deja Feria

2021-03-26 17:15:22 +0000 UTC

I would love a show about chronic illness and how that relates to doctors, dieting, unsolicited advice, etc.

Richelle Brunner

2021-03-26 16:36:35 +0000 UTC

A recommended reading list from your sources would be really cool!

Jourdan

2021-03-26 14:59:30 +0000 UTC

I could totally go for outtakes that didn’t make it in the episode! I know there’s a lot left on the cutting room floor and I’m here for it.

Heythere

2021-03-26 08:33:15 +0000 UTC

Aubrey has the best laugh!! It’s totally contagious.

Jackie Quinlan

2021-03-26 05:06:55 +0000 UTC

I agree with others that you both already do SO much work for the podcast, and it is AMAZING! I would totally listen to longer episodes though? Like post things you cut out if it’s not too much extra work. Also bloopers?? Your dynamic is what makes the show wonderful, so more laughing and joking around would be lovely. You guys are the best! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Stephanie Rip

2021-03-26 04:56:14 +0000 UTC

I've been learning so much from both of you on Twitter so long. I am so happy to support the podcast.

SROK

2021-03-25 22:09:54 +0000 UTC

I would like 20 minutes of just Aubrey laughing because it makes me happy ;)

Dibs

2021-03-24 21:29:53 +0000 UTC

Yes! All of this!

Jenn D

2021-03-24 15:15:27 +0000 UTC

I got “dumped” by noom because I disclosed that I was in recovery from an ED. Instead of helping me navigate my new relationship with food I was told they “couldn’t work with me”. My membership was refunded and they destroyed my account— it was not a great feeling.

Jenn D

2021-03-24 15:12:54 +0000 UTC

Agreed. Any time someone asks me if I’ve tried intermittent fasting I’m like “yeah, I intermittently didn’t eat for years— it was called an eating disorder”. The idea that starvation can “unlock” your metabolism is just bonkers to me

Jenn D

2021-03-24 15:05:24 +0000 UTC

I am a first time listener. I just listened to Anti-Fat Bias and the conversation about planes is the reason why I’ve never been on a plane and it gives me so much anxiety. I would love to travel, but I’m anxious to do so. Thank you for the conversation. I’d really love to hear an episode about weight loss surgery. I actually had gastric bypass in 2019 and no one ever discusses how you are treated after weight loss, especially with wls. Also, the side effects of wls are never discussed and the team at the hospital where I had the surgery said they don’t mention the side effects because it would deter people from getting the surgery.

Shelby Best

2021-03-23 14:56:54 +0000 UTC

I'm sure this has been suggested already but I'd love to hear an episode about the vitamin/supplement subscription fad that's been popping up the last few years (Care Of, Ritual, etc.) While some people, myself included, require vitamins to handle deficiencies (vitamin D, calcium, et al.) or supplements (probiotics when taking antibiotics) it's hard to know which brands to trust due to the lack of oversight/regulation in the industry. Do these new "wellness" brands actually offer a quality product and service, or are they just marking up mediocre products in cute packaging?

D

2021-03-22 19:05:39 +0000 UTC

Also is keto just the new Atkins? It seems… worse?

Amy Goldfine

2021-03-20 20:06:03 +0000 UTC

Same! This seems to be the big craze right now. Very curious if there’s any science behind it or if it just makes you eat less because you are eating fewer hours in the day.Very curious if there’s any science behind it or if it just makes you eat less because you are eating fewer hours in the day

Amy Goldfine

2021-03-20 20:04:46 +0000 UTC

Also are y’all gonna do an ep on Olestra/Olean? Miracle “fat replacement” except it might cause abdominal side effects such as “anal leakage” 😱

Amy Goldfine

2021-03-20 20:03:21 +0000 UTC

I would love to have a patron questions bonus ep!

Amy Goldfine

2021-03-20 20:01:42 +0000 UTC

Also Deal-a-Meal!

Melanie Cundiff

2021-03-19 17:09:13 +0000 UTC

PLEASE do an episode about Gwen Shamblin and the Weigh Down Diet. It's a fantastic mix of terrible diet plans AND brainwashing AND cults!!

Melanie Cundiff

2021-03-19 16:53:00 +0000 UTC

I'd love to hear extreme weight/body mod inventions like the waist trainer and the "vibrate/juggle your fat away" machines and the "science" of them

Kate Olsen

2021-03-19 14:48:39 +0000 UTC

I know there are lots of topics that are SO interesting and fun to discuss, but might not have enough content for a full episode, those 'mini-sodes' could be really fun bonus episodes too! That way time is protected, but also, Aubrey and Mike can do a deep dive on a topic that that have come across and love, but that may not be quite full ep length!

Jamie

2021-03-19 14:35:07 +0000 UTC

So I HEARTILY second the response from Jenna above! There's a solid through line of the MSE and the discussions about fasting that happen now!

Jamie

2021-03-19 14:33:17 +0000 UTC

I am just learning about the Minnesota Starvation Experiment and I would love to hear your thoughts on it!

Jenna Olsen

2021-03-18 23:55:15 +0000 UTC

I always love a mailbag/FAQ episode, if you wanted to do one of those! I'm also curious to know more about how you navigate fatphobic interactions with people you love (as opposed to strangers/random Internet assholes). Like, if your friends or family bring up your weight/diet/whatever because they're concerned for your health, or conversely, if a friend or loved one announces that they need to lose weight or makes fatphobic comments about themselves. I would love to hear any scripts, suggestions, tools, etc. for navigating these situations. Also just wanted to say that I really love the podcast (I started as a YWA listener, but I've also been following Aubrey on Twitter for a while) and I'm so happy you're doing it! (Also I just got Aubrey's book from the library, looking forward to getting started)! Keep up the great work!

some kind of gay cryptid

2021-03-18 17:17:12 +0000 UTC

I would love to hear an analysis of Noom! Thanks so much for the podcast. It has really helped me make sense of my experience and the world around me.

Carol M

2021-03-18 15:23:22 +0000 UTC

I have an episode suggestion that I would love to see you take on: why do fat women celebrities often lose weight once they're famous? Lizzo said on Instagram in November 2020 that she’d lost 50 pounds through working out and dieting. She looked like she had lost more weight at the Grammy’s on Monday. Virtually every time fat women get a role model in the form of an actress or a singer, the celebrity encounters fame and fortune and then magically drops the weight. Adele, Rebel Wilson, and Melissa McCarthy are a few recent options. Jennifer Hudson, America Ferrara, Missy Elliott, Monique, and Star Jones are more distant examples.

Liz Winston

2021-03-18 11:45:10 +0000 UTC

I would love to see Mike and Aubrey take on AA, and especially OA (Overeaters Anonymous-- so creepy). There's a great book called "Quit Like a Woman," written by Holly Whitaker, who also wrote a great New York Times piece about how problematic AA is.

Liz Winston

2021-03-18 11:42:52 +0000 UTC

I am loving the show and am just happy to support in a small way so you can keep it up! Keep the episodes coming! 👍

Leslie Holmes

2021-03-18 04:10:23 +0000 UTC

I agree, but also, check out The Dream. They did two seasons, one on MLMs and one on the supplement industry. Absolutely infuriating and frightening by turns. Made me vow to never give one red cent to any MLM no matter what.

Deborah Bell

2021-03-18 00:27:33 +0000 UTC

I know this might be too controversial, and it's maybe orthogonal to what you focus on, but I'd love to see you tackle the 12-step program. It's got all kinds of parallels to a lot of what you've talked about (weird Christian connections, hegemony rather than efficacy, no real science behind it, etc.). I did a Twitter thread on it a while back with a bunch of links to info on its origins, some studies about its efficacy, and so on, in case you're interested and might find the links useful: https://twitter.com/Delafina777/status/960706969894977537

Jessica Price

2021-03-17 19:22:29 +0000 UTC

I’d love to see an ep or mini bonus ep on the explosion of hair vitamins targeted at women. I’ve just discovered how many of these there are - and they are crazily expensive! - and am fated to learn more thanks to instagram’s ad algorithm.

anna b

2021-03-17 12:51:26 +0000 UTC

TW: Poop (Sorry Mike!) I'm here drinking my coffee with a bit of stevia in it and thinking about artificial sweeteners. The story I am most curious about is Lily's chocolate. If you google "Lily's chocolate diarrhea" you will find literally thousands of people over the past decade wondering why this perfectly nice, gourmet-looking, gourmet-priced, "stevia-sweetened" chocolate bar is making their bowels erupt. There is no indication that this stuff is, shall we say, "cleansing," other than the very small, fine print on the back of the package saying that the ingredients are "unsweetened cocoa, erythritol, inulin..." Wait did you say "erythritol and inulin"? It is amazing to me that these are included in "food" in the US without any kind of warning. I want to know how that happens. I mean, I don't normally have a very sensitive stomach but I am telling you, eating 1/4 of this bar of Lily's was like colonoscopy prep. Very surprising. I don't normally buy things with non-sugar sweeteners, but this is really cruel, especially to diabetics or dieters who might think the chocolate is useful. It's especially bad that diabetics often have crummy vision, and I with pretty good 50-year-old eyes can barely read the 6-point compressed fine type on the ingredient list. I know you're already looking into the disaster known as Olestra, but at least the food lobby did its work on Olestra and got warning labels onto the Pringles. These chocolates have been subject to complaints for literally 10 years and somehow the sugar lobby hasn't managed to get the FDA to warn consumers. Why do we even prop up the sugar industry if they're not going to help us defeat gas pains? tl;dr: Artificial sweeteners, esp. the ones with unpleasant digestive effects and no warning labels

Steven Bodzin

2021-03-17 09:59:43 +0000 UTC

Bonus content idea: Patreon user submitted Q&A - podcast or post format. Prefer hearing your excellent charming voices though.

Jo Lincoln

2021-03-17 01:44:18 +0000 UTC

I love the podcast. I've been meaning to join Patreon for a while so I could support some of my favorite shows, so kudos to you for being the ones who reminded me to click. I don't know what most creators do for Patreon content. I joined to support y'all more than anything. One show I love allows supporters to submit questions to their guests, which is fun. I really love the idea of podcasts being free and I know not everyone can afford to give. You've already hit on some of the things I grew up with like Snackwells and cleanses (my mom called those "fasts" in the 80s and 90s, but she was trying to cleanse toxins from her body because she thought it would cure her psoriasis/eczema. There was just a religious element also.) Here's some other ideas: The autoimmune protocol diet (AIP) - not the anti inflammatory diet, which seems to just be low fat and eat vegetables. The AIP has a weird hate for "nightshade" vegetables, and other than that seems to be a severe form of Paleo. Lots of people with RA and lupus and Sjogrens insist that you MUST follow this diet. Also people with narcolepsy are convinced that keto helps with their condition which seems suspect to me. Intermittent fasting. I have friends who think it cures MS and diabetes and all kinds of things. Is there anything to this weirdness (not curing MS, necessarily, but is it good for you at all?) The silliness about eating based on your blood type. Listening to the Master Cleanse episode, it occurred to me that it seems like there's a fundamental layer of thought that our bodies are dirty and gross and we need to clean or purify or punish them. Which might make learning healthier habits and lifestyles hard if we never tackle that underlying attitude. Any thoughts on how we do that? Intuitive eating: been hearing good things about this philosophy. Any thoughts?

Deborah Bell

2021-03-16 23:37:56 +0000 UTC

I have been so curious what their deal is because I see so many ads for it. I know it's got to be some kind of BS but I really want to know what!

Deborah Bell

2021-03-16 23:31:24 +0000 UTC

I am so, so glad this podcast exists! I have followed YR Fat Friend for years and so glad Aubrey is out and making great content with another great creator! I admit, I am poor so I can only really afford to do this bottom level of patreon, so the ideas I have are more for maybe higher-level people: * Bonus episodes * Aubrey reviews/photos of vintage diet books * Special Patreons merch In terms of topics.... * BMI * MTV's "Fat Camp" docu-series from the 2000's * Flat tummy tea/influencers and weight loss * Nutrisystem, Slim Fast, other ones like Weight Watchers

R1ngBanana

2021-03-16 18:36:23 +0000 UTC

I really think that the topic of wellness/weight loss-based MLMs would be interesting, as there are so many out there, and so many that don't work, can cause bodily harm, and can cause financial harm. Where I live, someone started a "smoothie shop" to essentially sell Herbalife products, and from what I've learned this isn't an uncommon thing. I think you could do a whole episode just on Goop. They often give ridiculous advice, and sell ridiculous things in the name of wellness. I know a little bit has been touched on, but I think you could really do a deep dive. Also, if I remember correctly, Aubrey collects strange diet books, and I think checking out some of them might be fun as well!

Oddity

2021-03-14 01:51:01 +0000 UTC

Sounds like a completely different podcast idea to start your own with!

Dani Goodman

2021-03-13 18:07:33 +0000 UTC

OMG, me too! I was rather shocked to find out how my state rated me.

Deanna

2021-03-12 20:54:00 +0000 UTC

Love the podcast and happy to support without any bonus material. As far as topics, I would be interested in BMI as a topic. I recently found out that as far as my state's COVID vaccine requirements go, I am considered "extremely obese" by their BMI criteria. I will certainly get the vaccine once it is offered to folks in my BMI range, but have never considered myself "extremely obese" and it has had me thinking more about the idea of BMI. Thanks to you both for putting together an awesome podcast!

Remy Kooistra

2021-03-12 04:19:00 +0000 UTC

I was thinking it would be cool to do a version of "my day on a plate" using an assortment of regular everyday people (anonymously - so not tied in with anyone's looks/weight) and have them talk about why eating like that on that speicfic day worked for them. For example, I thought it was cool to hear from Aubrey about how her diabetic friend eats some sort of heat up dinner (can't remember the brand name - I am not from America so am not familiar) and how that worked for her. Similarly, it would be cool to hear from say someone who is a single mum with very picky kids who feeds them some completely random food that her kids have decided are the only type of food they will eat (when I was growing up all I was so picky all I ate was plain pasta, carrot and playdough) It could be fun to take a more lighthearted approach so that the people doing their "day on a plate" can feel comfortable to poke fun at some of their eating choices that day. Essentially, I would just like to have a different representation of how regular people in the real world eat without that being"idealised" in the same way celebrities' "day on a plate" would be. Love the podcast btw!!

Mikaela Jordan

2021-03-11 04:38:25 +0000 UTC

Honestly, I would pay $4/month for these podcasts, for nothing extra. This is just my way of helping make this viable. Keep up the amazing work.

Caitlin Beck

2021-03-10 20:36:20 +0000 UTC

Very very much this, but if we could also just get at least one moment in each where Aubrey gives us a faux-outraged “Miiiike!” I will be thrilled. This is the best things I’ve found in 2021!

Emily Smith

2021-03-10 07:58:38 +0000 UTC

I think bonus content should be breezy and easier for you all to produce. As such, I vote for meandering conversations with people you think are rad about things like how their relationship with their own body has evolved over time. Just a thought. Love the show. Thank you so much for all you do.

Kathleen Schock

2021-03-10 02:23:06 +0000 UTC

Can you do one about that It Works! wrap thing? It could be a minisode depending, or like a whole thing about sweating, idk.

Grey

2021-03-10 01:28:57 +0000 UTC

Since she comes up a LOT...Can we get a breakdown of Oprah and her ups, downs, and influence on health/wellness. More specifically, her own public endorsements of health products/companies.

Tiffany

2021-03-09 22:48:11 +0000 UTC

I’m sure someone mentioned this but NOOM!

Julie R

2021-03-09 21:49:54 +0000 UTC

I've started to see ads on youtube where they start something like "did you know that the average american has 12-20 pounds of toxic poop rotting in their body" and then I skip the rest of the ad, but I can only assume it's probably for some kind of laxitive. If you want to make Mike uncomfortable, you could talk about poop in american diet culture

Casey Roos

2021-03-09 00:57:48 +0000 UTC

ATKINS. I’ve spent my life on one fad diet or another, but I was a teen when Atkins it was at its zenith and it did the most damage and threw me into really disordered eating for...evvv...er. You guys are amazing and this show is awesome. Thank you for your work!!

Jenna Regan

2021-03-07 12:34:33 +0000 UTC

I think you guys should take a note from marvel and start calling it the Oprah Winfrey extended universe or Oprah Winfrey cinematic universe when it turns out one of these weird diets was originally on Oprah Also carnivore diet is a lot of laughs

Anna

2021-03-05 15:03:44 +0000 UTC

Hi love this show. So needed. From the UK and would wonder if you would be interested in looking at the weight loss “guru” Steve Miller. His program “fat families” is jaw droppingly awful

Caroline Loach

2021-03-05 08:04:28 +0000 UTC

I adore this podcast! The topics I can think of right now that I'd like to see would be those stupid influencer peddled weight loss products and in a similar vein pretty much any weight loss centered MLM (examples, Herbalife, Juice +, Beachbody, Itworks). I know Optavia is in the works, theres just so many weight loss MLMs its dizzying and gross. I also think an episode about the evolution and reworking of what I grew up with as "the food pyramid" would be interesting. Its such a weird shit show. Can't stress enough how much I love the podcast and how thankful I am for it! I agree with many others here that I will support regardless of any extra perks! I'm just so glad you're addressing things so deeply personal and traumatic for so many people and absolutely tearing them apart as the harmful and predatory practices they are.

nina ♡

2021-03-03 03:46:05 +0000 UTC

The weird 90s Cabbage soup trend

Danielle McManus

2021-03-02 20:23:58 +0000 UTC

Ok... Kellogg's cereal, W.K. Kellogg, and the relationship between diet and literal eugenicism

Emily

2021-03-02 01:41:57 +0000 UTC

Another topic: SeroVital!

Marauge

2021-02-28 03:21:43 +0000 UTC

I'd like to hear an episode on the myth that weight loss requires exercise. I know it doesn't, and I know the research indicates that exercise does not lead to greater weight loss. Don't get me wrong, exercise is great for ALL kinds of mental and physical health, but it's not the secret to weight loss or maintenance (thank God!).

Marauge

2021-02-28 03:16:29 +0000 UTC

This interests me, too. I was in the Emily Program for compulsive eating; it was expensive & pointless. I later learned that those therapists are basically trained in how to keep anorexics alive, and they treat all eating disorders the same way.

Marauge

2021-02-28 03:09:22 +0000 UTC

I'd love y'all to make a list of facts that had to get left out of the episode for whatever reason but you wish you could have shared!

Kelly Hewitt

2021-02-26 14:58:33 +0000 UTC

I would love to hear more about how the body positivity movement has gained momentum and how folks who still really struggle with body image can find ways to find others/figure out how to not get sucked in to bad marketing all the time.

Bethany Nohlgren

2021-02-24 00:47:15 +0000 UTC

oh my gosh I just heard the Kill Bill sirens reading My Fitness Pal - I have MFP PTSD and would love a main or patreon ep abt this topic

Deming Elysia Cassity

2021-02-23 16:38:34 +0000 UTC

I wanted to second this - and especially the community organizing/human rights side of it. I think it was in the anti-fat bias episode where you mentioned making people "fat-curious" but you all have made me organizer-brain-curious! (project-management-queen-curious!) ... generally would love to hear about the methodology reflexes you have that really made an impression on me and seem to underscore the way you approach your pod-topics ... anyway thank you love you!

Deming Elysia Cassity

2021-02-23 16:37:00 +0000 UTC

YES to this!

Katie Bieshaar

2021-02-23 15:32:13 +0000 UTC

I love this, & would hope that any take on a 12 step group included talking (during or before) with some people who actually participate or participated. The anonymity thing about 12-steppers sometimes results in only outside perspectives getting any airtime.

Jane

2021-02-23 01:27:14 +0000 UTC

Second this. I'm thinking of a friend who uses a wheelchair who was naturally thin for a long time and isn't anymore, and she is treated so differently as her body changes.

Jane

2021-02-23 01:22:52 +0000 UTC

It's also a deeply held belief in France and probably some other places that you have a civic responsibility to be as thin and attractive as you can. People will directly say, You are part of other people's scenery. It's rude to be fat (or unkempt, or etc.). I know we have it bad in the US but it's different, maybe differently awful, or maybe worse, in some other places.

Jane

2021-02-23 01:21:02 +0000 UTC

Yes! Totally agreed. Whatever you guys want to talk about, I'll listen to. Something fun for you.

Jane

2021-02-23 01:17:03 +0000 UTC

I'd love to learn more about the 2000-cal thing. I've never really heard it challenged even though it obviously can't be universal.

Jane

2021-02-23 01:16:21 +0000 UTC

The Paleo Diet seems like a good episode idea! Could be very easy to tie in gluten and carbohydrates into it which you could probably do entire episodes on

Scott Trendor

2021-02-21 16:19:50 +0000 UTC

Huge fan of your work! I am house-sitting for my parents this weekend and found our old Wii Fit board in a closet. Made me remember how that product totally warped my childhood sense of health/wellness. Episode idea?

Brie LaPlante

2021-02-21 13:51:46 +0000 UTC

Can we do an... origin story for anti fat bias in the medical system? Was it "always" like this? When did the tunnel-vision antifat bias begin? Would also love to hear more about the intersection of anti Blackness and anti fat.

H e ll a m a l a i s e

2021-02-20 23:50:24 +0000 UTC

Yesss this!!!

H e ll a m a l a i s e

2021-02-20 23:24:28 +0000 UTC

I would love an episode on intermittent fasting!

Michelle FW

2021-02-20 21:59:42 +0000 UTC

I would also be hugely interested in an episode on gastric by-pass. I have two friends who have had them, and are very happy about it. But it seems like both bad science and genuinely scary, to me.

Lydy Nickerson

2021-02-20 19:23:37 +0000 UTC

I would _also_ really like to hear an episode about Noom. I keep on finding the ads incredibly appealing, and intellectually I know that this is almost certainly a scam, but I have this strong emotional response that I am not sure I understand.

Lydy Nickerson

2021-02-20 19:22:51 +0000 UTC

12 step groups for food addiction. It started with overeaters anonymous and then other groups splintered off. Would love to hear your take on 12 step groups for process addictions.

Noam Pillischer

2021-02-20 14:02:27 +0000 UTC

I would also love to see (hear?) You two talk about Noom - I fell for it hook line and sinker last year (without results) and would love to hear more about it...

Ravana Eagleheart

2021-02-19 17:03:38 +0000 UTC

Is there a way we can see the resources and video clips you use and share with each other when you record?

Carriann Frye

2021-02-19 14:55:58 +0000 UTC

I would love an episode about bariatric surgery. I'm in the medical profession and it's pushed way too much and the complications are vast.

Krissy G927

2021-02-18 12:28:29 +0000 UTC

I hate to compare this all the time to You're Wrong About (these are tied as my favorite podcast) but I'd love to hear you guys just talk about some things that aren't weight related in your bonus material, just because you are both so smart and funny. A tv show, a book, just whatever. I know you have backgrounds in community organizing and human rights - topics related to those could be interesting.

Jessica Michaels

2021-02-17 16:37:42 +0000 UTC

Whether as extra Patreon content or in just the normal pod, I second (and third) the idea of episodes on Noom and My Fitness Pal, I'm fascinated by how these apps come up with their metrics and recommendations for calorie numbers, macros, etc. I also recently read about Tim Ferris' evidently pretty popular "slow carb" diet and could see a deep dive on that being interesting. Love the pod, love Aubrey's book, excited to see what else you guys have coming our way!

Emily Wann

2021-02-16 18:40:00 +0000 UTC

I love this podcast! And this might be a little of a side topic for you guys, but I’m obsessed with the marketing of superfoods/antioxidants and how superfoods aren’t a real thing and I’d love to hear your thoughts!!

Clara Cooper-Mullin

2021-02-15 12:15:30 +0000 UTC

I would love if you did a main episode about the glycemic index.

Udi Meiri

2021-02-15 08:12:02 +0000 UTC

Yes! My workplace had a nutritionist do a presentation about healthy eating. At first it was all good, she had a lot of recipes to share for easy and healthy meals, but then she started talking about intermittent fasting. 🙄

Tess Conrad

2021-02-15 05:54:09 +0000 UTC

I would like to see something about Atkins similar to your episode about snackwells/the low fat diets. When I was growing up my parents were obsessed with it, and I had an eating disorder as a teen that insluded being absolutely terrified of carbs.

Tess Conrad

2021-02-15 05:47:52 +0000 UTC

I would echo those asking for a Noom episode. I work in the health tech industry and the way these companies are entering employer, insurance, and pharmaceutical markets is not being covered in the media. Additionally, I’d love to see you cover the temperance movement, the modern "sober-curious" movement, and problematic figures like Holly Whitaker. On the one hand, the $250b alcohol industry is way overdue for critique. On the other, visible influencers in the modern sobriety movement such as Whitaker often stem from some of the most pernicious, elitist, and perfectionist elements of modern wellness. I would love to see how you would dissect these topics. That said, you both are so brilliant and hilarious I will happily consume whatever you produce! Thank you for asking for our input :)

Lydia Dick

2021-02-15 00:39:39 +0000 UTC

Love what you are doing and don’t need extras - but Looking into old school diet fads from early 1900s would be super cool

Cassie Guagliano

2021-02-14 19:42:06 +0000 UTC

I don't know if this would be considered acceptable, but I had an eating disorder for 10 years, and getting into HAES/anti-diet/anti-fatphobia content was a big step in my recovery. Also the diagnosing for eating disorders is like way messed up. I think it would be really amazing to do en episode or series on eating disorders/disordered eating to bring more attention to it. I also love the dialogue between you two and just would be so thrilled to see what you guys would produce regarding this topic.

Emily Otto

2021-02-13 22:19:46 +0000 UTC

Love listening to you talk, so any extra audio content 😊. Also generally interested in things that intersect with disability.

evas

2021-02-12 17:06:53 +0000 UTC

I’m a new listener and I am getting caught up, so I apologize if you have covered this one before but when I was a kid my parents went to a seminar where they bought cassette tapes with subliminal messages and hypnosis to lose weight. I would love to hear you discuss hypnosis as a wellness trend.

Sara Dorner

2021-02-12 04:02:12 +0000 UTC

I've been hearing about body positivity for years but only just heard about the idea of body neutrality and that resonates so much more for me. I'd love to hear what you think about these mindset movements. Are they helping? hurting? or is the jury still out?

Literal Karen

2021-02-10 17:10:46 +0000 UTC

Hello- I would love a intersectional fat reading list or compiled source list. I love a good book club/ book suggestion moment.

Jane Von Slain

2021-02-10 08:35:50 +0000 UTC

I was literally just thinking about those 90s Olestra Doritos as a great episode!

Beth Gillis

2021-02-10 03:19:12 +0000 UTC

Maybe topics that can't fill an hour, but are still interesting? Like Wow! Chips/olestra...aka fake fat. I've had high cholesterol since childhood so I was eating lots of Snackwells and Wow! Doritos in the 90s.

Noah Jay

2021-02-09 19:41:03 +0000 UTC

Not sure if it was mentioned, but the TLC extreme obesity shows would be a great topic (My 600-Lb Life, 1000-Pound Sisters, My Big Fat Fabulous Life). My 600-Lb Life especially is such a voyeuristic show about people who all have something really serious going on mentally. Yet, it endures.

Jacqui Cook

2021-02-08 22:49:53 +0000 UTC

I am so excited about this podcast so I am just happy to support you both in all your good work. I love hearing you chat; I know I’ve heard on extra content from YWA that a lot of what gets cut is like “just a sec let me check that” And “ bathroom break”lol but I think just hearing you both chat about current issues surrounding this (rather than maybe focusing on sharing specific info on a topic) would be great. I love what you guys have to say :) As for regular topics, I would love for Aubrey to go into more detail about the “levels of fatness” she talks about in her book. I don’t think people not living this experience truly understand that there is privilege even among those considered “obese”; where you carry weight, what your size is, etc. But in any case keep up the great work! Look so forward to new episodes!

Heather Van Rijn

2021-02-08 03:16:01 +0000 UTC

Low hanging fruit but I would love an episode on MyFitnessPal and Noom and all those calorie tracking fad apps! I nearly starved myself trying to stick to my recommended intake

Rosie Burke

2021-02-06 13:40:40 +0000 UTC

I wouldn't mind a conversation that more deeply tackles the idea in our society that it's now a civic responsibility to be as healthy as you can. I think there's a lot to be said. Maybe that's something you'll tackle as a regular episode or two instead though. :)

Tami Anderson

2021-02-06 09:14:28 +0000 UTC

In the anti-fat bias episode (which, omg YOUR BOOK IS EVERYTHING) Mike mentions that the store was out of the kind of soup he likes. What kind of soup is that?

Jenna Olsen

2021-02-06 02:03:56 +0000 UTC

It takes a hell of a lot of enjoyment of something for me to willingly throw money at it when I don't have to, but that's how much I love this podcast. I would love to hear your take on Wim Hof!

Jen Beatson

2021-02-06 00:38:20 +0000 UTC

I read that obesity is considered attractive and a sign of wealth in Mauritania, and that the women there are often force-fed to find a suitable match like during the Renaissance. I’m so curious about what that’s like for those women and I’d love for you guys to do an episode on it! Thanks for the awesome podcast!

Annaleigh Andrews

2021-02-05 20:23:42 +0000 UTC

OH! and size issues in the hobby sewing community! There's so much there too.

Lesley Phillips

2021-02-05 17:43:36 +0000 UTC

I am so happy to be here and to support you! And I am also here for you when you are ready to do an episode on CrossFit.... ;)

Lesley Phillips

2021-02-05 17:40:52 +0000 UTC

Intermittent fasting for sure (also other diet fads like keto and raw food). Segmented sleep. Also how different body types go in and out of "fashion".

Casey Roos

2021-02-04 22:34:52 +0000 UTC

I'd love to hear your thoughts on corporate/workplace "wellness" programs - so many are about intentional weight loss, and often by companies that do nothing to actually support health for their employees.

Joanna Stone

2021-02-04 21:04:53 +0000 UTC

Love you! Never change! Topics I'd love to hear your take on: Kellogg and other turn of the last century health crazes; bariatric surgery; medical "trends" that don't help patients like the recent swing from "treat pain over anything else" to "refuse to treat pain at all". Oh, the concept of hysteria and the medicalization/demonization of women being women.

Katherine Perez

2021-02-04 20:19:10 +0000 UTC

I'd love to hear about the history and effect of language! Like, how "fat" is considered not ok by thin people, even when you say it about yourself. And how "curvy" and "thick" came in. Basically, all about the language used to describe ourselves.

Claire Gunter

2021-02-04 19:02:40 +0000 UTC

Jennifer, I love that you brought this up! I have 2 kids and they are quite young, but I'm seeing that the tweens/teens in my life have a way better relationship with food and the diet industrial complex.

Claire Gunter

2021-02-04 19:00:25 +0000 UTC

Don’t need extras but as a vote in favor of something I bet y’all have planned—just going over the history of the fat liberation/pride movement in the US, and maybe even inviting some fat studies scholars (academic and otherwise) to be on the show...I’m a real history nerd and would love to hear y’all’s commentary and perspectives

Drew Kotlarczyk

2021-02-04 17:14:46 +0000 UTC

I also don’t want to request extra work either but if you’re looking for it, what about shorts on food ingredients/elements commonly vilified or deified by the industry: quinoa, stevia, Olestra, carbs, fiber, etc.

Jessica Charlton

2021-02-04 17:06:03 +0000 UTC

I was listening to it on my walk to work and laughing so much - I think I got some strange looks from other people I passed!

Lauren McGuire-Wood

2021-02-04 16:48:06 +0000 UTC

This has become my new favorite podcast and I get so excited listening to the opening music which I also love btw. I was wondering if there is any research on fecal transplants for weight loss. I had a friend that had c. Diff infection in her gut and tried for almost a year to get rid of it with expensive prescriptions but nothing was working. She literally lost so much weight, hair, energy, it was bad, and then a doctor suggested a fecal transplant and her brother was the donor and she was better in like a week. I know gut micro biome is a current area of research but I was just curious if there had been any thing related to this and weight loss.

Jill Palermo

2021-02-04 15:50:58 +0000 UTC

Maybe just more comments on the Everything I eat in a day by a celebrity trend that happens. You could focus on one and do like a 5-10 min chat about how ridiculous they are. But I agree with Casandra above, I’m supporting you for the work you already do and don’t need extras.

YoursTruelyMelly

2021-02-04 12:27:02 +0000 UTC

Can you please do and episode on weight loss surgery?

Lindsey Fowler

2021-02-04 06:37:03 +0000 UTC

Honestly, I will continue to just give you money and expect nothing for it but the truely wonderful podcast that already exists. But sometimes I would like to know other things that you two find useful or interesting or are mildly obsessed with for a period of time. Like maybe other podcasts you listen to that are hidden gems, or a book you want to throw at everyone you meet because it was so good. That sort of thing. If that's too weird, the podcast is amazing and I am happy. Have my money.

voicesthatcarry

2021-02-04 06:33:54 +0000 UTC

Seconding Intermittent fasting. It is a HUGE thing for the athletes I train with. It's bananapants.

Róisín West

2021-02-04 04:02:42 +0000 UTC

Herbalife!

smash burghers

2021-02-03 21:54:59 +0000 UTC

- Calories in calories out, exercise for weight loss (general bs around weight loss or what the science is telling us now) - ww, Noom , Jenny Craig - weights trends over the decades.. think Kate Moss 90’s vs Kim Kardashian 2020’s etc

Betsy Wightman

2021-02-03 21:36:57 +0000 UTC

Thank you for all the great research and content you are already doing! It would be fun to hear your quick takes on current wellness headlines. Also, what you’re reading. Q&As. Guest interviews.

Chelsea Bailey

2021-02-03 19:03:30 +0000 UTC

I could see episodes on: - Intuitive Eating - Intermittent Fasting - Nature vs. Nurture - Inclusive sizing (in clothing) - Intersection of weight and race - how "weight management" is dealt with by men - Heroin chic As for extras, I would love to see a live taping! I would also like to hear about Aubrey's book every chance possible. Michael, you do some really emotional reporting and I'd love to focus on your personal experience when researching your incredible article on obesity. Can Sarah Marshall be a guest? Lindy West? Y'all could host some dope people.

Claire Gunter

2021-02-03 18:57:11 +0000 UTC

As a #MethodologyQueen, I'd love to hear more about research methods! So grateful for this podcast and the excellent content you've all been making.

Liz Possee Corthell

2021-02-03 18:51:59 +0000 UTC

As much as I adore extra full length episodes from my favorite podcasts, I feel patron content should NOT be a load of extra work. I’d love anything you have fun doing that is not a huge suck on your time. I want to be a support for the work you do. I don’t want you to do a bunch extra ❤️

Cassandra Lewis

2021-02-03 18:35:27 +0000 UTC

Wellness MLMs would be a good topic. They absolutely prey on people (mostly women) and use all kinds of bullshit claims. A few even got in trouble for bullshit covid claims last year. This would probably be better for a main episode, not a bonus episode though. Love the show and can’t wait to listen to future episodes!

Robyn Norgan

2021-02-03 17:41:02 +0000 UTC

Yes! An acquaintance I follow on Instagram is deep into Isagenix, and I’m kind of fascinated by it.

Jennifer Czechowski

2021-02-03 17:38:34 +0000 UTC

I’m sure there’s some gold to be mined from shitty celebrity diet books. I’d also be interested in generational differences in attitudes about weight. I feel like my generation (Gen X) inherited my mom’s generation’s awful ideas about weight, but my daughter (14) and her friends don’t seem fazed by it. I’ve been wondering if that’s a common experience. Thanks for making this fantastic podcast—I love it!

Jennifer Czechowski

2021-02-03 17:36:55 +0000 UTC

eating disorder/body image therapist here - so grateful for this podcast and the work you do. i have been recommending it to clients and colleagues left and right. there are so many myths i would love to hear trashed (michael hobbes reacting to bad science is one of my favorite features of any podcast). i think an episode on the bad science regarding weight and pregnancy/fertility would be amazing, as well as the myth of the 2000 calorie a day one size fits all diet. i also think it would be cool to hear you guys dissect the cultural attitudes/language around fitness and movement and all of the insidious ways we love to shame ourselves for existing. i was also wondering if you guys have any plans to address health at every size and/or intuitive eating. i think it could be really helpful to a lot of listeners, especially since you're both so great at making big concepts digestible and accessible. sorry, probably throwing too much out there. as i said, i'm a huge fan and so happy to be a listener. you're doing such important work. thank you!

Naomi Kidder

2021-02-03 16:59:31 +0000 UTC

What you’re doing is amazing, on the topic of systemic fatphobia, particularly in medicine, I’d love an episode or a few episodes on the alternatives to the mainstream fat=sick model. I think that would be very empowering for folks because it’s hard to know that the system is set against you, but not have tools to push back. Or an episode on beauty trends through time and how they relate to classism, racism, sexism, etc. Ex. Being bone white was a desirable trait for periods of European history, but in current trends it’s being ran. Or a juxtaposition to places like Thailand where white skin is still the most desirable color and being “black” (quotes for the translation of the thai word used being literally the color black, but not with the connotation of being of African descent). Thanks for all you do, I wish I could make your podcast required listening for my classmates in our nurse practitioner cohort.

Andrea Eickelmann

2021-02-03 15:47:50 +0000 UTC

If you are thinking about doing bonus episodes perhaps a historical focus. For example - Benjamin Rush - discussed in today's podcast. There is much more crazy (horrible) stuff to do with him and the founding of most modern medical specialties. I think it would make for some great short (15-30 min) episodes. Love the show!

Katie

2021-02-03 15:38:39 +0000 UTC

Agreed! A resource list would be awesome.

Lacey England

2021-02-03 15:23:28 +0000 UTC

Very much the same as Jennifer - I love the You're Wrong About bonus eps where it's an AMA, or just you both chatting about things you've been working on or have just found interesting but aren't indepth enough for a full podcast! Essentially what I'm really saying is that I just want to hear you both saying more things!

Steph Lockhart-Franklin

2021-02-03 15:17:37 +0000 UTC

Has Jenny Craig already been said? Some of my friends’ parents were super obsessed with it in the early 90’s, and it seems like it fell off when WW hung on.

Dena

2021-02-03 15:13:58 +0000 UTC

I really like the AMA's, you (Mike) do with Sarah for You're Wrong About! I'd also love to hear more about the experience of writing your HuffPo article (Mike) and your book (Aubrey). Basically anything that doesn't take more time for you all than just chatting!

Jennifer

2021-02-03 15:08:40 +0000 UTC

Thank you both for making such a fun, intelligent, insightful and fascinating podcast! I love to hear about/read anything that's interesting to you guys (I loved Aubrey's book as well). I definitely second the support for an extended cut, bonus length Weight Watchers episode! I am also interested in celebrities and influencers promoting tummy tea, appetite suppressant lollipops, waist trainers etc on Instagram and what that's like for young people. Keep doing what you're doing, you guys are awesome and I'm gonna wear my new Maintenance Phase t-shirt with pride <3

Imogen Cable

2021-02-03 15:06:30 +0000 UTC

I would love more resources to dig further into the topics, so maybe a related resources section with additional books and articles.

Maxine

2021-02-03 15:05:05 +0000 UTC

Literally anything you post, I will listen to. AMAs are always great, stuff you don't have enough info to make a full-length episode on but still want to talk about, but legit, anything!

Tara Moore-Lawless

2021-02-03 14:06:55 +0000 UTC

All extras are welcome. Answering AMA questions, weird tidbits from eps that weren’t related to the topic but interesting, random pointless stories that came out of discussions. Anything!

Sheala Bacon

2021-02-03 13:54:37 +0000 UTC

People are always telling me to “try tracking macros” and I would really like to hear your take on this, so I have a succinct way to tell them to shut the fuck up.

Jenna Olsen

2021-02-03 13:31:47 +0000 UTC

Yes, I feel greedy asking for more, although I am curious if there are topics you have ruled out -- perhaps because they're overdone. So that would be a fun bonus episode -- Things We Are Never Going to Talk About.

Laura Lippman

2021-02-03 12:59:25 +0000 UTC

I agree with all the others that said we don't need perks, we just love the work you are both doing!!

Autumn Theriault

2021-02-03 12:06:11 +0000 UTC

Mini Eps of stuff that was cut out or you didn’t have time for in the regular episodes! You could call it Small Portions or something. 😂

pickled lenin

2021-02-03 11:41:23 +0000 UTC

I second the whole "clean" eating nonsense, and all the keto/paleo stuff too!

Stephanie Zielenkievicz

2021-02-03 11:18:18 +0000 UTC

I know you kind of talked about juice cleanses in the Moon Juice episode but I would love more about the whole fucking juice phenomenon; it’s hard for me not to see it as a socially acceptable eating disorder. Perhaps along the same lines, orthorexia (the eating disorder that’s obsessed with like cleanness and healthiness to a disruptive degree). And also I know you are planning to do an episode on weight watchers but like MAN do I want to hear the super extended directors cut of that episode,

Sarah A

2021-02-03 10:57:51 +0000 UTC

Ooo seconded! How about ‘The Great Masticator’ Horace Fletcher?

Emerson Easley

2021-02-03 08:58:40 +0000 UTC

Really enjoying the podcast, thanks! Not sure if it would fit the theme (as diet due more to religion than health), but things got reeeeally weird around Medieval Lent diet restrictions, like folks saying puffins are basically fish, that geese grow from barnacles, and some dark stuff with baby rabbits (https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/mock-medieval-foods). It seems we've always been good at both imposing dietary rules on ourselves and then stretching those rules to their outer limits!

Emerson Easley

2021-02-03 08:55:18 +0000 UTC

A more ‘free form’ portion of the episode or extra conversation is always great! Or a more short answer (what about homeopathy???!!) format. I know you won’t be able to do the proper researcher, but it’s better than ours!

Olivia Jennie

2021-02-03 07:56:32 +0000 UTC

I'm always fascinated why/how some diet and exercise 'fads' become almost cult like e.g. isagenix, crossfit.

BrookeA

2021-02-03 06:24:56 +0000 UTC

I just want more of the two of you chatting and joking and being skeptical, empathetic, and funny. I will listen to anything you create. I would also listen to entire series of "really gross things from the past" because Michael marveling at the survival of the human race in the Snake Oil episode made me laugh so hard that I startled the dog.

Ann

2021-02-03 06:09:14 +0000 UTC

I was just thinking today that you should cover the inventor of the Salisbury steak! It's more interesting than it sounds. 😅 You could do a whole series on old fad diets (pre-1900s).

Cassie Eldridge

2021-02-03 05:49:34 +0000 UTC

Yes! We've also been talking about doing full episodes for the main feed specifically on things that we like/use.

maintenancephase

2021-02-03 05:46:19 +0000 UTC

Absolutely. I want even more Methodology Queen business

innocuous beans

2021-02-03 05:39:46 +0000 UTC

If you do an AMA style bonus ep, I'd love to hear about what wellness things you believe or want to believe or have tried despite any lack of evidence or evidence to the contrary. Do you secretly believe that crystals have healing power? Use essential oils? Not to make fun of you, just because we are all complex human beings who contain multitudes and I love that.

Nicole

2021-02-03 05:35:50 +0000 UTC

Ditto!!

Barbara Ford

2021-02-03 05:34:25 +0000 UTC

a classic would be AMAs/Q&As but honestly I'm just so happy y'all exist. I listened to Snake Oil today on my weekly self-care hike and literally out loud in the middle of the forest yelled "WHAAAAAAAAAAT" at a certain key moment that I shall not spoil! :P

Max F

2021-02-03 05:34:11 +0000 UTC

After hearing Michael mention Jeffrey Star, I’m very interested in hearing any and all opinions regarding toxic YouTubers.

Audrey Pendleton

2021-02-03 05:33:41 +0000 UTC

I think it'd be great to hear some of the research you decide to cut! I know it probably all doesn't make it to the pod. And your research process as well.

Lyndsey

2021-02-03 05:30:14 +0000 UTC

Thank you both for such a great pod!

Sarah Chamberlain

2021-02-03 05:28:09 +0000 UTC

I will happily consume whatever content you produce. With that said, I'm here because I love what you're already doing and don't need a single damn thing to make supporting you worthwhile. <3

Leah Carey

2021-02-03 05:28:00 +0000 UTC

Welcome, maintainers!

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I’m listening to an episode where you mention optifast. I once got optifast as a Christmas present from a friend. Without asking for it.

I’m new here. I am obsessed. I am listening to them all. And it is glorious! Was introduced to the show when Aubrey did A bit fruity. You two are fabulous!

RIP to Richard Simmons. Maybe I have missed it in my podcast feed but I am shocked there hasn’t been at least one Maintenance Phase about him.

I finally caught up to all the available episodes and can't wait to dive into the bonus episode 😁 🙌🏻

I love the podcast! Thank you for all of the work that you’re doing. Forgive me if this is on another thread but I’d love to hear you review Ruth Field aka The Grit Doctor (book titles ‘Run Fat B***h Run!’ and ‘Cut the Crap!’ Wishing you both all the best xxx

Absolutely love the podcast! I just read an article in the Lifestyle section of the newspaper (procrastinating at work!) on The Human Being Diet where the woman lost 19kg (“and kept it off”!)… it sounds like she starved herself to me, but I’d love to hear your review.

I want a Discord to connect with other snarky MP methodology queens!

I've been listening to the main episodes since the beginning and I'm so excited for all the bonus episodes!

Can’t wait to get started on every bonus episode from the be beginning!

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Just saw a story about Linda Hazzard for the first time and would be interested to hear more through you two! She was a physician in Washington who killed multiple patients through fasting in her sanitarium and was convicted as a serial killer, later dying of her own methods

Super late to the Patreon party, but love you guys so much! I am an avid podcast listener and this is the first patreon I've subscribed to since I love what you do so much! <3 <3

Yes, the blood type diet is utter nonsense but I know licensed providers that pitch it!

Oh boy :D I love this content, so so so much... content content content, juicy delicious f*cking content. I just joined Patreon for the first time to be able to listen to more. You guys rock. Thank you for all you do.

Guys I’m watching Super Nanny and I need you to watch at least one episode. You’ll know why 😭🤣

Hi team ! Not even sure if you see these but I would love a bonus pod about HAES - I understand the person behind the book was recently canceled? Not super sure what the deal is. I love what you do and value your work so much! Keep up the great work

Episode suggestion: OPTAVIA A friend of a friend recently got sucked into this MLM-dieting mess. A brief perusal of their website revealed that they are selling boxes of granola bars with seven bars for over $20! Yikes. Would love a deep dive on this shit show.

Me too! She was like the revolution that opened my mind to counter culture…I still remember her on stage saying “no white flour, white rice or white men”

Would love to hear about the bread hating, “wheat belly” phenomenon. Also a holiday episode on how to respond to ignorant family members offensive comments with evidence based zingers by you two would be amazing!

Y2k Ana- pro ana phenomenon and thinspiration Pinterest pages !

I second the ask for a Goop episode! New patreon here, thank you for all you do!

Just finished ALL the regular podcast episodes and had to break my Lenten resolution (spoiler: I’m not a “good” Catholic girl… party since I’m 46) not to spend any unnecessary money. Although Mike and Aubrey seem necessary, so I absolve myself. Thanks for all you do!

Please do a podcast on the Fuck It Diet book

I’d love an episode on Michael Mosley!

This link should help! https://www.patreon.com/posts/63524845

I'm seeing some buzz on Twitter about pushback to Lindo Bacon and HAES. I'm not sure I totally understand the debate. Not trying to throw shade, just wanting to better understand what's going down.

NEED this esp with all the truly deranged stuff Kristina has said/done/sold

This may have already been mentioned throughout the comments but I’m super keen to hear thoughts on brightline eating or noom as I feel like there has been a reactivation of these diets! Ty for all you do I’m obsessed with the podcast!

If you consider having guests at any point, having people who can speak more to the intersections of anti-fat bias with racism, transphobia, etc. could be a rly helpful development. I love what y’all have done so far!

I keep thinking of more I’d like to hear your take on: Mark Sisson and the Primal Blueprint

I saw someone mention Susan Powter which gave me flashbacks, and I would love to hear your thoughts on her. Also Richard Simmons, and the Scarsdale Medical Diet. Thank you both for your great work!

Would love to hear about Calories In Calories Out, and so many of these other comments!

Oh, yes PLEASE. I was under the Mark Hyman/Andrew Weil spell for a good many years.

I would love to hear you guys take on Whole30!

I would love to hear a dive into the Raw Vegan YouTubers, 80/10/10 diet, of the mid 2000's. Freelee the banana girl, Durian rider, Kristina (I think) who claimed her EYE COLOR changed from a raw vegan diet. These people are absolutely still around, but holy shit I was cult-level obsessed.

LOVE you two!! I would love if you did an episode on The Losada Ratio! Seems super up your alley. Bunk science, new info, weird ideas about mental health- all the things! <3

Oh my gosh, I think I was probably 8 or 9 when my little sister cut the hair off of my favorite troll doll and I have a VERY distinct memory of tattling that she'd turned my troll into Susan Powder. What a cultural moment.

I have very strong memories of Susan Powder's extreme popularity and what I perceive as insanity. Would be interested to hear more.

i know you’ve already done weight watchers, but i’d love an episode on slimming world! not sure how popular it is in the us, but in the uk it’s literally a cult — more so than weight watchers i’d say. thank you for all that you do!

You mentioned one time on Instagram that you might do an episode on Michelle Obama and the nutrition policy? I would love to hear that!!

Hello Ruth, I just coincidentally saw your comment and I agree with you. An episode about fat-bias in gynecology and obstetrics would be extremely interesting to me. I've been trying to have a baby in over two years and it isn't working. I'm not interested in hearing "lose some weight" anymore!

Omg yes!

oops- hit post before saying- I don’t know how lucrative this pod cast is but next year maybe have a contest to invite a fan to host the Grifties with you!? Or do something with you. I want a chance to hang out with you both.

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Okay I would love to hear if Aubrey has this particularly toxic diet book and if so I’d love to here her thoughts on it. It’s, Reshaping It All: Motivation for Physical and Spiritual Fitness by Candace Cameron Bure, you heard that right, Candace Cameron Bure. It is so bad in so so many ways.

I would love to hear an episode on David Goggins - he’s somehow all over my social media all of a sudden (damn you algorithms!!), and a quick Google made me so upset so I can only imagine what kind of rage your in depth research would provoke!

Would love to hear y'all take on Susan Powter and Stop the Insanity. (Also kinda dread it because I did love her back in the day.)

I second weight loss surgeries. I have heard so many horror stories about them.

I would love to address weight loss surgeries. I got the Lap Band back in 06. Many many awkward vomit moments later, surprise! They don't perform that operation anymore. Now it's too expensive for insurance to get it removed.

My favorite part of every episode is Aubrey yelling “MIKE NO you’re fired!” 😄

What I wouldn’t give to hear a deep dive on the toe shoe craze of the early 2010s.

Your recommendations of books that challenge the diet & wellness industry (I read Aubrey's this year!)

I actually went looking for Jamie Lee Curtis and Activia! 🤣🤣🤣 How about that and the other cleverly named levels of your Patreon? They are good ideas.

Can you do an episode about how much water one is supposed to drink and if/how that actually affects you….. so many celebrities swear by drinking water for skin care etc….. plz and thanks!

Related subjects that would make good episodes: the cookbooks that showed up several years ago that centered around sneaking pureed vegetables into kids' food and the campaign to put cauliflower in everything.

Literally begging for a Jordan Peterson's Carnivore Diet episode please.

Not necessarily bonus content, but I'd love to hear your take on Dr. Gundry and his lectin-free diet.

Yes!! I totally need a sugar episode.

New Patron here and Anti-Diet dietitian! I’d love to hear your take on High Fructose Corn Syrup and sugar in general!!

I would love to hear some research on what the war on opiates is doing to pain patients who really have no other options. the opiate crisis has some real similar notes to the war on drugs and the war on obesity to me and I would love to hear some other takes on it.

I would love to hear all about this too!!!

You mentioned lipidema in one of your episodes— I’d love to hear you interview Sarah Bramblette on her activism on this. https://twitter.com/born2lbfat?s=21

I’d like to see a methodology queeny episode on the real long-term outcomes for these surgeries.

I'd love to see something on Noom, since so many people swear by it but it just seems to me to be another calorie-counting/food restriction plan?

I recently moved to a new city with a lot of rain and it has been impossible to find a regular waterproof jacket my size. I wear size 18 pants and have very wide hips so male jackets won't fit either. I'm tired of using huge plastic ponchos. Pleaaaase industry, clothe us.

Topic for future episode: Project Runway. Season 14 - designer Ashley Nell Tipton who designed a collection for “plus” size women. I really liked Ashley during the shows. This may have been the first season to incorporate “plus” size clothing in the competition.

I also want an episode on Wii Fit! I haven't stepped on the "balance board" in at least 5 years, but I can still perfectly hear "that's obese!" in my head.

Wii fit....so I could workout inside without anyone seeing me or judging me. So I weigh myself on the board and my little cartoon character gets all sad and slouches down and cries as the system announces "that's obese!" I want to hear Aubrey say oh fuck all the way off!

plant-based diets

vegan

paleo

Vyvanse and Bamu 🤣

Intermittent Fasting!