Wow I could go on all day about my love for this podcast. Emily and Lauren are both super funny, thoughtful, and have great chemistry. I especially love all of Emily’s takes and tend to agree with her about most things, but I also love hearing from Lauren and appreciate hearing the perspective of a plus size woman on different parts of wellness. I love the chats they’ve been having about all different topics, but particularly exposing diet culture and all its sneaky ways of making us think its normal to always be on a diet! Give this podcast a try if you are fed up with dieting. It feels like I am commiserating with good friends! Keep it up ladies!

Love this podcast!

A hilarious and realistic take on body issues and diet culture!

Love Lauren, her energy is fun and I could listen to her talk or joke about anything. Emily has always been a drag. She always puts Lauren down when she’s just joking around, or being vulnerable.

I love what DST is trying to do with this reboot, and I love the hosts individually, and I love the subject matter, but the dynamic between Lauren and Emily has changed and it feels like they are frustrated with each other. Their conversation always sounds like two people who are trying to be friends, but just can’t get on the same page. I want to listen but it makes me uncomfortable. They need a reset, or maybe to mix it up with a third host.

This podcast has been so great for my ED recovery. I’m amazed how much my perspective is growing listening to it. Thankful for y’all and I really enjoyed the Empire Waist episode. I can’t wait to watch the film!

I used to love this podcast with the original creators of betches but this new group is brutal. Allllll they talk about is fat phobia and how not to lose weight. It’s very annoying. Not everyone wants to be fat and is okay with that so stop acting like people who want to lose weight and be healthier are horrible.

Lauren is decent, Emily is hard to listen to. She speaks with authority on things she knows nothing about. It’s painful and often out of touch. Todays discussion of vegetables at Thanksgiving was truly offensive, as Lauren said. As another example, the ozempic episode was absolutely absurd. The hosts were ‘speaking from experience’ and ‘based on their own personal feelings’ about addiction, weight stigma etc. These are topics with research to support them. Their uninformed opinions should not be on this platform

I unfollowed this pod when it was DST - came here from an add on another show and was surprised. Loving hanging out with Lauren and Emily on the new version! Great conversational podcast that has me talking back without any content that’s too intense.

I love listening to these two ladies. Their banter and chemistry is fantastic. It’s great to listen to while cleaning my place. As a side note, Lauren’s Lexipro journey was especially helpful for me, as an anxious person.

Listening to this show is like hanging out with friends! The topics are educational but also pop culturey and so funny. I need more episodes with Lauren and Emily!!

I got halfway through the baking episode and was like Sarah sounds so familiar, then realized it was my favorite dessert recipe blogger/youtuber Sarah Fennel of Broma Bakery! So exciting and so nice to learn more about her baking journey.

This pod just keeps getting better ! Such a fun listen and so relatable!

I will pay for you guys to re-record the protein bar ad and have Lauren say “Reese-IZ” the correct way 🤣🤣

I love this podcast. The hosts are wonderful ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Hi! I started listening way back when with the original hosts when it was Diet Starts Tomorrow. I must say, this newest version of the pod with Lauren and Emily is my favorite. It’s funny, relatable and informative (esp loved the sunscreen episode), all while smashing diet culture. Keep it coming ladies!

I’ve been a DST listener since the beginning but over time the content has shifted and no longer resonates with me. I miss the days of Sami and Aleen. Just not for me anymore!

I started listening to DST a few months ago. I wasn’t crazy about it but when I went back to older episodes with Emily and Remi I really loved them. Lauren means well but she says nothing of substance, and they’ve completely lost any credibility with regards to the science around weight and the consequences of being obese.

I don’t really know where to begin. I started listening a little over a year ago and immediately felt like these lovely humans are able to articulate a lot of the feelings I have had over my life about my body issues, my disordered eating, and just my lack of confidence overall. I loved Remy and hope she comes back for some guest spots, but when Lauren joined she shared things that I have never had to the ability to say to myself or to those who love me. I love this show because they are super thoughtful and insightful and have really helped me to start to explore so much of the sadness and anxiety that has been attached to my relationship with my body, movement, food, and so much more. Thank you Lauren and Emily for hosting such a thought provoking podcast!

I started listening to (then called) DST when Sami and Aleen hosted and I was deep into diet culture. So happy to have grown and evolved with the show and new hosts Lauren and Emily. They’re a breath of fresh air I look forward to the eps every week!! Every episode has something relevant AND makes me laugh.

Ads for Impossible Foods? Stop trying to pretend this is “healthy”. And then we have Emily’s rant about how a discussion on whether a ravioli is like a dumpling is pointless. You know what is pointless? Ten minutes of that on this podcast. And two grown women not knowing how to pronounce Vichy after claiming to be so familiar with the French pharmacies and the skincare you can get. You want to talk about skincare? Bring on a dermatologist. Don’t tell me you have no skincare routine and then act like you’re versed enough to have a podcast episode about it. Two women with no children talking about how kids only eat things if they are coated in sugar? On a podcast that has little or nothing to do with parenting ? I think this episode was my last straw and I’ve been here since the beginning.

How do you plan to refund the subscription fee paid when premium content is no longer provided? I paid for a subscription as a fan of Aleen and Sami.

As a healthcare provider this show is a TOUGH listen now. There are so many flaws with diet culture, yes. However, this podcasts’ failure to acknowledge that millions of Americans DO need to lose weight to prevent premature death or serious morbidity misses a crucial part of health and wellness. Calling providers who don’t diagnose people who submit questions to a Q+A a shill or politician shows you don’t understand that you can’t just diagnose someone who isn’t you patient without an actual health history and comprehensive assessment. This is just as shame-y of those who want to improve their metabolic health - reduce their visceral fat (which IS a major health risk) and lose weight as someone telling someone they look terrible.

They shouldn’t talk about scientific studies on this podcast unless they learn more about how to interpret a scientific study. For example, they kept referencing that 225 citations supported that weight loss doesn’t improve health. Every single citation in a paper does not mean that it’s another study supporting that study it can be background information. It can be anything.

Just listened to the most recent episode and, as a paying subscriber, I would love to know why I’m forking over money to hear a 20 minute ad for impossible foods. Such obvious empty content. Do better, please.

This is a complete waste. 0 substance. The one sided bias makes this show completely unappealing to people who enjoy health and wellness and fitness.

I feel left behind after the rebrand. DST used to say out loud the things I was thinking about myself and made me I feel seen. I came in with Remy and Emily and I really felt connected to their openness about struggles with disordered eating - and how you can feel bad even when you are in the healed stage. As someone who has always struggled with my body even though I’m on the up - it made it feel like my struggles were normal too. Now it’s just another podcast with two girls talking. I held out as long as I could but it’s not the podcast for me anymore. Sad that the space DST created no longer exists.

I’m sorry but please replace the new girls, or add more substance to this… it’s very gabby without any kind of insights or educational aspect. I commiserate with my friends. I want to come here to commiserate AND get a different perspective from my own, maybe even with some research behind it.

Obsessed with everything they have to say, they are the coolest and I learn from them so much. Love listening to this every week and hearing their thoughts.

I hope you find the audience you’re looking for with the rebrand because as an OG DSTer I can’t listen to the show anymore. It’s not fun. It feels like I’m being shamed constantly. The guests are biased or unrelated to the topic. Was trying to hold out but this show has become unbearable and unrelatable.

I stopped listening when the new hosts came on. I just couldn’t connect anymore. I’ve recently begun listening again when Lauren began and the dynamic is great! I love her insight and Emily and Lauren as co hosts

I’d been a DST listener since the start and have tried to stick around since Sami and Aleen departed, but I just can’t listen to a single-minded view on body positivity and wellness anymore. Emily and Lauren seem to only rant about how bad Ozempic is and how no one should want to lose weight, yet the only experts they’ve had on have been those who support those same narrow views. As someone diagnosed with binge eating disorder who uses semaglutide to manage food noise (and who is now able to actually eat intuitively instead of restricting and binging) I just feel judged when I listen to them. I wasn’t looking for a return to the original format where Sami and Aleen were often trying different diets every other week, but I’d like to actually hear about wellness and healthy movement instead of just complaining.

I started listening when Lauren join the DST family and I just love Lauren and Emily together. They make me feel like one of their girlfriends. The conversations never feel force and love how they feed off each other’s energy. I’ve recently jumped off the societal toxic weight loss band wagon and feel like I’ve found my people. Keep being you and can’t wait for more shows with you both. Love it and excited about the possible future name change.

Emily can prep some talking points before recording the pod. She talks without any relevance to the pod. Like in the latest episode she just goes on and on about umbrellas lol. Lauren brings a lot of good points to the discussions but what can she do if Emily is always so off topic. Maybe get a new cohost to match Lauren. I can't listen to Emily and her musings about sneakers and umbrellas.

I have listened to this podcast for yearssss but can no longer listen with Lauren. She makes everything about herself and clearly wants to go viral. The tone of the show has changed for the negative and I miss the old hosts/content.

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I love this podcast- Emily and Lauren have great conversation and are funny, thoughtful and insightful. It’s really like being in the room with friends. I love the attention to a variety of topics especially those that pertain to women, body image, health and relationships. Thanks for the great show!

Loving the dynamic between Lauren and Emily. I think they both bring a lot to the table and their conversations feel more aligned with “OG” DST. I appreciate how fat friendly it is (especially without excluding or demeaning anyone else) and I think listeners of all sizes will find something of value from both of these hosts :)

I’m really enjoying Lauren Hope Krass as the new co-host! She’s super funny off the cuff but also brings a really fresh spin to the podcast with her experience as a plus size person. Also loving all the new segments. I definitely have some food pinions of my own 😂

Back for seconds is my fav! I Subscribe just to hear more of Aleen and Sami. Was so happy to discuss the (over?)emphasis of breastfeeding for new moms in the caretaking / capitalism episode

No shade to other hosts but I am LIVING for new co-host Lauren! It just feels right having a plus size perspective on the show AND she’s funny, smart, and has great chemistry with rest of the team? 🔥🔥🔥🫡🫡🫡👑👑👑💅🏻💅🏻💅🏻

I’m a new listener and love tuning in every week. I felt very similar to Remy which is what got me hooked. I like the new host but she interrupts Emily SO much. I think she’ll find her groove but please let Emily finish her thoughts and don’t feel the need to fix the issues she’s talking about.

I love the foodpinions, keep them! I also think that Lauren is a great addition to the pod, although we all Stan Remi, I’m so enjoying Lauren’s lighthearted takes and effortless humor. My Red Vines secret is that they’re nasty fresh but amazing stale. They get the chew of a twizzler but a more intense flavor. My mom and I discovered this by purchasing Red Vine loosies out of the Costco tub at the $1 theater in San Diego the 90s. It started a tradition of buying a small pack before Passover, opening them, and waiting to eat them until the holiday is over a week later.

Loving the new hosting duo. These two women have a rich understanding of diet-culture, anti-fat bias, EDs, and body image—while also being brilliant comedians…soooo good! We’ve all spent too much time bonding with other women via being self critical (“fat talk”)—this podcast is the anecdote, rewiring our brains to think about friendship, our bodies, and our culture through a new lens. LOVE LOVE LOVE

Hate the new format. Hate that podcasters think we just want to hear their opinions on the most mundane daily topics. Dont waste your time.

They make it such a point to be “body positive” but it seems that they lean so much towards the plus size/fat community that it almost contradicts their purpose. They are so positive regarding the plus size/fat community and often times make comments that can be hurtful to those who are considered slim,“acceptable body standard”, petite, etc. It feels like all you guys do is promote living a fat lifestyle which is so ridiculous.

I haven’t been a longtime listener but I enjoy listening to the episodes! To me it feels like honest conversation about difficult topics. Do I always agree with the takes? No, but it feels like talking with a friend and hearing different perspectives. I like when they include Lauren to get a true plus size perspective as well. I relate to the struggles and appreciate them discussing topics beyond just diet and exercise and how other things play a role in our body image. To be honest, I don’t really enjoy the older episodes because the ones I have listened to seemed to perpetuate some toxic ideas and diet culture. Looking forward to hearing more from Emily and Lauren and whoever the new host is

Y’all lost me on the Oprah weight loss drug episode. I take Wegovy and it has been a life changer for me. I can empathize with all of the things Oprah said; food noise is a real thing. Food addiction is a real thing. Ever heard of binge eating disorder? It’s an actual disease. To come back to the point over and over that intuitive eating is the only way to go is insulting. I am almost 40 years old, you think I haven’t tried and failed 1 million times? Bye.

Most of the time these girls have me cracking up because I can relate so well. When it comes to the eating disorders, the disordered eating the body dysmorphiaThe punishments, the rejections in the self judments I myself put up on me and my parental daughters in this life. This stuff is real, this stuff is true, and this Stuff is therapy to the soul for those who have ever struggled. A little bit too many F bombs but sometimes we gotta take the bad with the good.

I was a fan until I heard Tracey Carnazzo on a recent episode. She’s a mean girl from another podcast. The last straw for me was the ozempic episode that came off very judgmental. Not very sympathetic to those who need these drugs and not coming from a place of intelligent discussion. I can’t listen anymore.