"You Can Count Your Protein and Still Be Nice to Fat People."

Burnt Toast by Virginia Sole-Smith

Welcome to Indulgence Gospel After Dark. Today, we’re tackling two big topics:

1. Can you do a diet-y thing and still be an anti-diet advocate?

2. And can Corinne and Virginia divest from Amazon for one month?

(Or is that…also kind of diet-y???)

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Episode 175 Transcript

Virginia

This feels like a very timely conversation for January. We are getting inundated with all of the diet talk, all of the urge for self improvement. This is the month where even if you’re staunchly anti-diet…you might start drifting that way. So we thought, let’s get into it. Let’s talk really honestly about what that means and what it looks like.

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