Diet Culture Wants YouOnce you see the next level of the con, you can’t unsee it.
The first realization is that diet culture is a con.
The next is that it tailored the con to your specific personality.
And every con starts with research on the target.
Diet culture didn't come at you with willpower tests and meal plans by accident.
It studied how you're wired, then built the hack that fits you exactly.
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Hi! I’m Sophia.
A body liberation coach, certified Enneagram nerd, fat person, founder of Fat Joy, and someone who has spent years sitting with people inside the wreckage the diet industry leaves behind.
Fat Joy with Sophia Apostol is where plus-size & fat folks gather for cozy online workshops, professional coaching, and community events.
We joyfully rebel against anti-fatness and diet culture by sharing our stories, celebrating our creativity, and living audaciously. And you’re invited! Because fat joy is your birthright.
The problem was never your willpower.
You've probably spent years thinking the problem was your discipline, your willpower, your relationship with food.
This series moves the blame off you and onto the system that profited from your doubt. You stop auditing yourself and start seeing the setup.
That shift is the whole point, and it's the thing that actually loosens diet culture's grip.
A billion dollar industry needed your body to feel like it was the problem. But it never was.
No one else is doing this.
Most anti-diet content tells you to stop dieting.
This podcast tells you why you started, and why it felt like your own idea.
It traces diet culture's move all the way back to how you're built, so you stop fighting the symptom and see the actual machinery.
There’s a real tool within.
We're starting to see data confirm what Enneagram folks have known for decades- that it actually explains why people do what they do.
At its heart, the Enneagram is a tool for understanding yourself more deeply and going easier on yourself, and on everyone else too.
Here, it's pointed at one thing: showing you exactly how diet culture found its way in, so you can shut it out.
Watch the first episode now:
The intro episode below clearly explains how diet culture hacked you.
The rest of the series is where the real reveal happens, one episode at a time, going deeper on the specific ways diet culture gets to different people and their personality types.
This podcast series shows you how diet culture…
gets deep into your personality type
strategically dismantles your sense of self
can be stopped, showing you the way back to your own voice and choice
You'll start catching the patterns in real time, and you'll have several concrete practices for coming back to your own voice, motivations, and wants.
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Here's what will happen as you listen to each episode:
Clarity about something that's run in the background your whole life. You'll start hearing diet culture's voice as separate from your own, which means you finally get to choose which one to listen to.
Permission to want things again. Food, rest, pleasure, all the stuff you learned to ration or earn.
Anger in the right direction, pointed at the industry that profited instead of at yourself.
Practices you'll actually use, small and doable, for finding your way back to your own voice.
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Fat Joy with Sophia Apostol is where plus-size & fat folks gather for cozy online workshops, professional coaching, and community events.
We joyfully rebel against anti-fatness and diet culture by sharing our stories, celebrating our creativity, and living audaciously. And you’re invited! Because fat joy is your birthright.
Sophia lives and works on the lands of the Wendake-Nionwentsïo, Haudenosaunee, Attiwonderonk, Mississauga, Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, Anishinabewaki, and she's using her life and work in service of decolonization and collective liberation, aiming towards a future where domination is no longer the order of things.
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