Dr. Jenny Talbert

I had such a meaningful conversation with Dr. Cristina Castagnini on the Cristina Castagnini about weight stigma, GLP-1s, and the eating disorders healthcare so often misses or even praises in larger bodied patients.

We started with my own story, my atypical anorexia and orthorexia during chiropractic school, and how that experience is actually what led me to build a weight neutral practice.

From there we got into the real harm of BMI based medical denial, where patients are refused surgeries and procedures they need based on a number that says very little about their actual health.

We also talked honestly about GLP-1 medications, including the sarcopenia risk that rarely gets mentioned before someone starts one, and why informed consent matters so much here.

If you are a provider rethinking how you talk to patients about weight, or you are someone who has felt dismissed in a doctor’s office because of your body size, this episode is for you.

Episode 290 is live now. Link in bio to listen to the full conversation.

Thank you Britt Baird for designing the body image for my booth at Ozarks Pridefest 🏳️‍🌈 this year. It was a beautiful display to help people engage at my booth. Where do you hold your tension or pain??

It is so important for me to have representation of body types in all of my marketing. So thankful to have found such a talented artist!!!

Please go follow her work and also you should sign up for her Patreon to get a monthly art sticker and floral print.

Choosing love looks like showing up for patients who have historically been let down by healthcare systems that were never built with them in mind. Q***r and trans folks deserve care that affirms who they are, respects their body without condition, and doesn’t treat their identity or their size as something to be corrected.

Weight-neutral, trauma-informed, size-inclusive care isn’t a niche offering. It’s what all good healthcare should look like, and the q***r community in particular has every reason to be skeptical of providers who haven’t done that work.

If you’ve spent years bracing yourself before appointments, rehearsing how to explain yourself, or leaving visits feeling worse than when you walked in, that wasn’t your fault. You deserved better then, and you deserve it now.

Happy Pride. 🏳️‍🌈

Weight-Neutral Care Training is coming!! and I created a continuing education course for healthcare providers to learn how best to deliver weight-inclusive care to patients of all sizes.

www.weightinclusivecaretraining.com