Media featuring interviews with Dr. Erlanger

Podcasts

Weight Loss Medications: Are GLP-1 Agonists a Game Changer ?Dr. Lisa Erlanger returns to the podcast for a conversation with Julie Church, RDN, CD on GLP-1 agonists, medications widely prescribed for weight loss. Through

Dr. Lisa Erlanger: A Physician's Journey to Practicing Weight-Inclusive MedicineDr. Lisa Erlanger joins Opal's Nutrition Director Julie Church, RDN to share the evidence and compassion that led her to evolve into a weight-inclusive physicia

Conversation on Weight Stigma with Dr. Lisa Erlanger (Part 1)

You walk into a doctor’s office for an appointment, and what is the first thing you are asked to do? Step on a scale. For some, this experience or number fails to generate a heightened response. However, most of us have complicated and deeply personal relationships with our body and weight. Have you ever stopped to question why all doctor’s visits start this way? Or, have you ever wondered why you have been made to feel so preoccupied with your body and size in the first place?

Conversation on Weight Stigma (Part 2) with Dr. Lisa Erlanger

Join us as we explore the foundations of weight-inclusive primary care and “peel back the onion” that is diet culture. We also discuss how research and everyday discourse about weight can be misleading and what we can do to fix these misconceptions

Articles

Shifting Perspectives: Providing Weight-Inclusive Health Care in the GLP-1 Era, Endocrinology Advisor Feb 2025

Experts Argue It's Time for Obesity to Be Defined Beyond BMI, TIME, January 2025

Come as you are, Prevention October 2024 (print only, copies available here)

Here's the Real Reason Women Have That Little Pooch Huffpost May 2024 and Buzzfeed Jan 2024

How to Advocate for Yourself at the Doctor's Office if You Have a Larger Body VeryWell Health March 2024

Why Some Doctors are Giving Less Weight to Weight Vogue March 2024

How to Find a Healthcare Provider That Isn't Hung Up On Your Weight Shape Magazine March 2024

Do Celebrities Need to Share How they lost weight? And why do we care? Vogue Dec 2023 *Note this article contains stigmatizing language and weight-centric ideas about health

Should we end obesity? Time Magazine, Nov 2023 *Note this article contains sigmatizing language and weight centric ideas about health

How to find a fat friendly doctor near you, SELF magazine, July 2023

Media featuring interviews with Dr. Erlanger

Podcasts

Conversation on Weight Stigma with Dr. Lisa Erlanger (Part 1)

Conversation on Weight Stigma (Part 2) with Dr. Lisa Erlanger

Join us as we explore the foundations of weight-inclusive primary care and “peel back the onion” that is diet culture. We also discuss how research and everyday discourse about weight can be misleading and what we can do to fix these misconceptions

Articles

Come as you are, Prevention October 2024 (print only, copies available here)

Here's the Real Reason Women Have That Little Pooch Huffpost May 2024 and Buzzfeed Jan 2024

How to Advocate for Yourself at the Doctor's Office if You Have a Larger Body VeryWell Health March 2024

Why Some Doctors are Giving Less Weight to Weight Vogue March 2024

Some seattle doctors are ditching the scale KUOW June 2023

Weight-centric health care is status quo, but it's not helping patients The Seattle Times, July 11, 2022

What will it take to get weight inclusive care? The Seattle Times July 18, 2022

What's it like to see a fat friendly Doctor, The Paper Gown, April 2021

Anorexia for the gods: a historical perspective of disordered eating The Daily October 2020

F--- your flat tummy tea The Daily, May 2019

Have you ever been told to watch what you eat? The Daily, Feb 2019

The truth about stretch marks, The Daily, April 2018

Dieting Tips: Stop Dieting, The Daily, Jan 2018