Shoulders Down
Shoulders Down
Leah Kern
👉 I Don’t Want to Be Weighed
 But They’re Requiring It. Now What?
35 minutes Posted Aug 18, 2025 at 3:00 pm.
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What happens when your anti-diet values collide with the realities of a weight-obsessed medical system? In today’s solo episode, I respond to a deeply vulnerable listener story about being required to undergo weight monitoring during pregnancy as a gestational surrogate—after more than a decade of avoiding the scale as part of her healing from disordered eating. I unpack the emotional toll of being reduced to a number, the grief of not having full autonomy in medical spaces, and how weight st...