This episode isn’t about fat.
It’s about shame, distraction, and the quiet disappearance of self-worth as the years pass and the waistline grows.
Paul explores midlife weight gain not just as a physical change, but an emotional one, the slow, sneaky toll of busyness, convenience, and forgetting what it feels like to feel attractive, noticed, or even visible.
If you’ve got a shirt you love but no longer fits, if you look fine head-on but avoid side-on glances, if a single compliment lives rent-free in your head because it’s the only one you’ve had in years — this one's for you.
