Pearl - March 11, 2026
Stop Using "Body Positivity" To Excuse Laziness
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Summary
In this episode, I sit down with my good friend, Mandy, to talk about her journey with fat loss and how it has changed her dating life. We talk about how she went from being overweight to being able to lose weight, how she managed her weight loss, and how she was able to get her life back on track after losing weight.
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what are you people always say what are you offering oh woman doesn't have to offer anything
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yes you do if you're not taking care of yourself why would you expect to be with someone who is
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like the top of the top if you cannot be top of the top so i think a lot of women are 20 pounds
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from love okay because because a lot of guys will sleep down right i mean guys will sleep with damn
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near anything if you ever see a guy's roster it's like incredible like a guy that's an eight will
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go with the four it's like incredible but a lot of times there's like guys that like a girl but
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they're just kind of hoping and i've heard this from so many guys where they liked a girl they
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would date her but she just is a little too fat yeah a lot of women like the guy that they can't
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get commitment from you're like 20 30 pounds away baby just get on the treadmill but guys
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are never going to tell you have you seen um something similar with your clients or their
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dating lives getting better after they lose the weight from both ends and like i i went through
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this myself but like i can tell my own little story but for my clients i think a big thing is
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just having more confidence with dating too where putting less emphasis on does the guy like me and
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more on oh do I actually like him because they they like themselves more they know that they
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look better they know that they're a better catch because yes your appearance like you kind of date
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your league I would say for a lot of people uh for most people it's kind of how it works and so they
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know that they can get better but for a lot of women yeah I've heard this from so many guys and
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clients too where like the dating wasn't really going well but then they lost the weight they
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dropped their part like who they were with and then started dating someone better because then
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they realized they deserve better so it's it goes it goes both ways to it uh yeah because it's like
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i don't know tell me what was your story you said you changed like dating when you lost the weight
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yeah i mean i think just like i i mean i definitely had to like blow up with it but
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But a lot of it is confidence. Like when you aren't that secure, I wasn't that secure in myself
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at all. And like I once worked, I worked in corporate before I went off on my own. And for
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one of my jobs, like my name is Amanda. I've never gone by Mandy, but I worked at this company where
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my boss's name was Amanda as well. And during my interview, she was like, oh, I want to call you
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Mandy. And I'm like, okay, sure. And then I got the job. And then for my two years at that company,
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my name was mandy because that's just like sure this is what people will call me and so just
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having not as much self like respect and that also translated into dating where my focus was on
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a fake timeline for myself of i need to get married by this age have kids by this age
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i just need to find the guy like who i can end up with and it was just like a bunch of you know some
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normal people a bunch of losers too because i just wasn't really like my best self for it so
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when you actually are a better person you can date better yeah and american women are so fat
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guys just want someone that's thin you know they really i mean people will say people have there's
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a what's the saying there's a kettle for every pot pot for every cup whatever that is like there's
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always someone for someone but i would say if you want to date a guy who is good looking who
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makes money who takes care of himself what are you people always say what are you offering oh
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woman doesn't have to offer anything yes you do if you're not taking care of yourself why would
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you expect to be with someone who is like the top of the top if you cannot be top of the top oh my
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gosh that's incredible i i've interviewed so many fat women that say they want in shape men
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and i'm like yeah they'll screw you i mean a black guy will do it let's just
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i'm at i'm at the people people will there's always someone for someone but like
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black men and fat women are like that does not make sense i mean that not that but like
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oh yeah because you know why why would you want to date someone who goes to the gym when you don't
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even go to the gym yeah what do you have in common you like you both like that he goes to the gym i
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don't know people are it's just it also just comes with like taking care of yourself my husband works
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out if he didn't work out we wouldn't be a fit i want someone who like goes to the gym and does
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that what do you think about women that gain weight after uh marriage like that's really
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common where they yeah yeah men too right yeah go look at my recent i made a lot of people mad
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recently on um instagram because i created a video and i said if my my husband ever got fat
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like i would tell him like just as he would tell me never have to tell me but uh there's a lot of
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there's a lot of like uh less than average people in my comments being like your weight should not
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you should love anyone at any size and i said no as a parent your love is you will love them with
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whatever but for your part like for whoever you're with like you should take care of yourself i think
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that people who let themselves go once they get married did not have anything like set for them
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before they got married because it just it's unnatural to let yourself go to an extent when
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you've been taking care of yourself for however long that doesn't really happen you don't see
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people like that who had like good habits prior now for those who let themselves go after the
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wedding after whatever it's probably because they were just trying really hard during dating
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for the wedding and then they're like okay i'm safe now what are you safe from like you don't
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look good you don't feel good and in shape guys don't want to deal with your bad habits like
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because you're going to bring him into his lifestyle like i don't know if you're into
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more traditional gender roles and you want to cook for he doesn't want you to cook
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gross food or like food that's gonna make him fat if he's in shape you know exactly like what again
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like what is what is your offer because at some point it's not just i always see stuff on social
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where it's like the woman's role is to just exist and i'm like what are you talking about
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just exist with what like create your own life do your own thing like yes you're existing but like
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you can do more than that too yeah why not just sometimes just lazy women i just cannot stand
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i cannot like it's just they have an excuse for everything i think it's because the world kind of
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coddles them and they just they won't tell you you're fat they won't tell you you're in a bunch
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of debt they were like i'm trying to think of a good word for female losers and i i have to come
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up with this i just say i like i love the word loser because it's not being a loser in your own
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life you're literally it's your life why are you acting like the person that you'd be like yelling
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out on tv being like get your together just do it like it's not it's your one life but yeah
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I think that women they just they make excuses they they see all of this garbage of it's your
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metabolism it's your genetics it's your hormones it's like you have a soft life like be feminine
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I'm like well it's not very feminine to be as I used to deal with binge eating to be stuffing your
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face and like holding on to weight because that's body positivity no it's take care of yourself and
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most of your ancestors were farmers like none of your ancestors had soft lives like I don't know
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this idea like we had like 20 years in the 50s where women like stayed home maybe had softer
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lives for like 20 years but their husbands were also at war you know yeah no go go watch the
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recent dinosaur netflix documentary where it talks about all the dinosaurs and like where the world
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started how everything started and like it's just it will put a different perspective on things but
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with women having a soft life now it's like what the hell does that even mean if you want a soft
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life work hard now and then you'll have a soft wife to get from it google a day in the life of
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the amish that was your that was your ancestors like they're like they're using all these old
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machines it's no wonder they didn't have to die it because their life was so like calorie
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they're working for it yeah you have a machine heavy or work for a separate heavy yeah for sure
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turn the butter do you think um health is a deal breaker for marriage in the sense of like someone
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taking care of themselves yeah like um i don't know if if you're with a partner that won't lose
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weight do you think that's a deal breaker yeah i mean like i thought well it's what if it's what
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do you think duh like of course like when i was when i was 20 pounds heavier i was more depressed
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like people who are depressed of course there can be this is a vague answer but like if so if you're
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dealing with someone who's depressed help them right of course that's it but people love to be
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all hypothetical well what if it's this what if it's this what if it's this it's not that yeah
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it's not that they're just you know I wouldn't date someone I wouldn't want to be with someone
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who is like overweight that's just not what I'm doing and I chose my person so like check that
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off what do you think about um I don't know because I see it on social media all the time
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where women are mad that men like thin women yeah what do you think is you can find a guy who doesn't
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like thin woman like yeah i'm sure that they have like platforms for that to date someone who
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likes that but like how can you get mad at such a generalized thing you either if you want i don't
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know like lose the weight unless unless find someone who loves you for who you are and you
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want to keep your weight perfect there will be someone i'm sure out there like that but it just
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i don't know stop being at the same time stop blaming men for like your your problems like
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you can find someone worthy to date too. Fuck my date. Yeah, no, I agree.
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