Born This Weigh
Welcome to Born This Weigh. Each week, Kari Bloom and Lisa Blake get real about weight loss, body image, and mental health. They unpack fat-girl wiring, critique the pop culture that shaped diet culture, and share how it all impacts confidence, identity, and everyday life. Honest, funny, and unfiltered — smaller bodies, same chaos. Follow and leave a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review to support the show.
Episodes
🎉 Welcome back to Born This Weigh!
We’re Kari and Lisa, two moms, 150+ pounds lighter, still untangling what it means to love ourselves in a world that never missed a chance to body-shame us.
This week’s episode dives into:
💧 Hydration for Weight Loss
Why drinking water is somehow harder than it should be, how dehydration messes with hunger cues, cravings, energy, and workouts, and whether hydration actually helps with weight l...
🎉 Welcome back to Born This Weigh!
We’re Kari and Lisa — two moms, 150+ pounds lighter, still untangling what it means to live in smaller bodies in a world that never missed a chance to body-shame us.
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This week’s episode focuses on two heavy-hitting, very real topics:
🎄 Holiday Weight Loss
Why December isn’t a moral test, how “ever...
🎉 Welcome back to Born This Weigh!
We’re Kari and Lisa — two moms, 150+ pounds lighter, still untangling what it means to love ourselves in a world that never missed a chance to body-shame us.
We've launched on Patreon. Join The Club! https://www.patreon.com/cw/BornThisWeighPod
This week’s episode dives into:
✨ Metabolizing Joy — Kari’s fresh off a soul-filling weekend in Jonesboro, Arkansas, and we unpack what it feels like to b...
🎉 Welcome back to Born This Weigh!
We’re Kari and Lisa, two moms, 150+ pounds lighter, still untangling what it means to love ourselves in a world that never missed a chance to body-shame us.
This week’s episode dives into:
🍽️ The Weight Watchers Diets — the points math, the weigh-ins, the binge–restrict mindset, the emotional eating patterns we learned as kids, and why so many of us picked up secret eating and food guilt without ev...
🎉 Welcome back to Born This Weigh!
We’re Kari and Lisa — two moms, 150+ pounds lighter, still untangling what it means to love ourselves in a world that never missed a chance to body-shame us.
This week’s episode dives into:
🫘 BeanTok & Realistic Fiber Wins — Lisa falls headfirst into #BeanTok and ramps up her bean-and-fiber journey with grinder salads, chickpea experiments, high-fiber swaps, and the TikTok rabbit hole where peo...
🎉 Welcome back to Born This Weigh!
We’re Kari and Lisa, two moms, 150+ pounds lighter, still untangling what it means to love ourselves in a world that never missed a chance to body-shame us.
This week, we’re doing something a little different — a Thanksgiving Special: Pep Talk Edition.
We’re diving into:
🦃 The Thanksgiving Freakout — why this holiday can feel like the Super Bowl for anyone try...
🎉 Welcome back to Born This Weigh!
We’re Kari and Lisa, two moms, 150+ pounds lighter, still untangling what it means to love ourselves in a world that never missed a chance to body-shame us.
This week’s episode dives into:
💅 Feeling Girly Again — Lisa gets an "extended scalp massage", unlocks her inner rich auntie, and suddenly understands why people walk around the neighborhood just to let everyone see their hair. From l...
🎉 Welcome back to Born This Weigh!
We’re Kari and Lisa, two moms, 150+ pounds lighter, still untangling what it means to love ourselves in a world that never missed a chance to body-shame us.
This week’s episode dives into:
🎙️ Fatphobia Across Politics & Pop Culture — from Fox News SNAP rants to SNL punchlines. We talk about how shaming fat people is still pervasive and why body shame somehow keeps getting a pass on b...
🎉 Welcome back to Born This Weigh!
We’re Kari and Lisa — two moms, 150+ pounds lighter, still untangling what it means to love ourselves in a world that never missed a chance to body-shame us.
This week’s episode dives into:
🎭 Plus-Size Halloween Costumes — how we’ve spent years choosing funny over sexy because of how others made us feel about being seen on Halloween.
🧠 Learned Helplessness — that slow, sneaky victim mindset t...
🎉 Welcome back to Born This Weigh!
We’re Kari and Lisa, two moms, 150+ pounds lighter, still untangling what it means to love ourselves in a world that never missed a chance to body-shame us.
This week’s episode dives into:
📺 Love Is Blind and Fat-Shaming — we unpack Season 9's storyline with Joe and Madison's relationship, Anna’s online hate, and past contestants like Alexa and Brennon. Are these women really plus size? A...
🎉 Welcome back to Born This Weigh!
We’re Kari and Lisa — two moms, 150+ pounds lighter, still untangling what it means to love ourselves in a world that never missed a chance to body-shame us.
It's a milestone week for the pod! We have our very first guest.
We'll chat with fitness coach David Terrell @personaltranscend aka (The Biebs) all about:
🏃♀️ Exercise Anxiety — why just moving can feel so loaded, how “fit-guy ...
🎉 Welcome back to Born This Weigh!
We’re Kari and Lisa — two moms, 150+ pounds lighter, still untangling what it means to love ourselves in a world that never missed a chance to body-shame us.
This week’s episode dives into:
🎬 John Candy & The Caretaker Archetype — gentle giants, funny fat men, and what it costs to make everyone else comfortable while forgetting yourself. We break down (literally) fall 2025's hugely p...
🎉 Welcome back to Born This Weigh! We’re Kari and Lisa — two moms, 150+ pounds lighter, still untangling what it means to love ourselves in a world that never missed a chance to body-shame us.
This week’s episode dives into:
💻 Real Life Weight Loss Weeks — sick kids, zero sleep, and one Wi-Fi adapter that didn’t survive a latte.
🍸 Non-Scale Victories IRL — Kari goes solo to a DC bar, gets hit on mid–Cubs win, and still choose...
🎉 Welcome back to Born This Weigh! We’re Kari and Lisa — two moms, 150+ pounds lighter, still untangling what it means to love ourselves in a world that never missed a chance to body-shame us.
This week’s episode dives into:
🐙 Ursula the Sea Witch — why The Little Mermaid’s villain might actually be the OG fat femme icon (and the only “representation” we got as kids).
👗 Clothes Shopping Trauma — shrink-wrapped torso chic, mall melt...
🎉 Welcome back to Born This Weigh! We’re Kari and Lisa — two moms, 150+ pounds lighter, still untangling what it means to love ourselves in a world that never missed a chance to body-shame us.
This week’s episode dives into:
🥚 Fad Diets — from the Egg Diet to cabbage soup and the Military Diet, we revisit the wildest “quick fixes” people swore by (and what actually happens when you try them).
👗 Wedding Dress Regrets — the stories b...
🎉 Welcome back to Born This Weigh! We’re Kari and Lisa — two moms, 150+ pounds lighter, still untangling what it means to love ourselves in a world that never missed a chance to body-shame us.
More big feelings this week:
⚖️ Shame Around Achievement — why every promotion, project, or personal win used to come with an invisible “but I’m fat,” and what it takes to stop shrinking our own successes.
🎬 Fat Monica on Friends — from ...
🎉 Welcome back to Born This Weigh! We’re Kari and Lisa — two moms, 150+ pounds lighter, still untangling what it means to love ourselves in a world that never missed a chance to body-shame us.
This week’s episode dives into:
💪 Bieber’s “Murder Workout” — Kari swears her trainer (lovingly nicknamed The Biebs) is secretly trying to kill her with his workouts. (You can find The Biebs on socials @personaltranscend if you're also i...
🎉 Welcome to the debut of Born This Weigh! We’re Lisa and Kari — two moms, 150+ pounds lighter, and still untangling what it means to grow up fat in a world that never let us forget it.
We made this podcast because there are so many of us who’ve carried weight — and the shame that we were taught should come with it — for a long time. It shaped our humor, our choices, our confidence, even our mental health.
Born This Weigh is our pla...
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