Virgie Tovar
It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching
472-Body Positivity and Activism in the "Ozempic Era" with Virgie Tovar
- Published
- May 21, 2026
- Duration
- 53:46
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- May 21, 2026
Discusses self improvement, health.
Summary
GLP-1s did not just change medicine. They changed a movement.Virgie Tovar is a weight stigma expert, activist, and journalist who has been watching this unfold from a perspective most voices in this conversation don't have. In this episode, she traces exactly what happened to body positivity and fat activism when Ozempic entered the room, and she does not…
Show notes
GLP-1s did not just change medicine. They changed a movement.Virgie Tovar is a weight stigma expert, activist, and journalist who has been watching this unfold from a perspective most voices in this conversation don't have. In this episode, she traces exactly what happened to body positivity and fat activism when Ozempic entered the room, and she does not soften the analysis.In this episode:The real difference between body positivity and fat activism, and why that distinction has never mattered
Themes
- self improvement
- health