Who's Dat Phat Girl with Brooke Hoover

In today's episode I talk about the foods that I won't ever give up and foods that I will. I don't believe giving up food should be seen as a punishment. I think Rick Astley would agree that it's more about how you're gonna feel when you DO give up certain things instead of completely banning certain things from your diet's repertoire. One of the many foods I "gave up" on my health quest incl...

I was a smoker for nearly half of my life. Not proud of it. But, I'm proud that I quit. I tell tales about how I started, how I stopped and how my "non-traditional" parents reacted to it.

By listener request - I've talked about her on the Who's Dat Phat Girl podcast a whole lot already - we have the one and only MOMMA ANNE on today telling tales with me about our favorite food memories: from New Orleans to New Jersey and from catfish po-boys to pumpernickel bagels, we've got some tales...and some strong opinions. 

Doberge Cake pronounced "DOUGH-BAHHHHSH" is my favorite confection in the whole world. Hailing from South Louisiana, there is really nothing quite like it. It's more than just a "cheat day food", it's my sweet soul mate. I'm telling tales here of many of my run-ins with a cake that must stay cold in one of the hottest states in the nation. This episode is in honor of my late Poppee Earl Olivier's...

I booked my role of a lifetime : Trixie in the Rocky Horror Show only to nearly talk myself out of my excitement and worthiness of booking the role. Instead of allowing myself to be grateful and proud, I constantly question, "Do I deserve this?" All the while wearing a gold snake chain between my boobs.

I share my top ten favourite (yes, with a "u" cause we're fancy) lean protein sources - that aren't boneless skinless chicken breasts.

From my podcasting studio (aka my closet) in New Jersey, I talk about my experience with flippin' tables (vibrating exercise ones from the 80's and 90's to acupuncture tables) in my quest of weight loss and health gain. 

Growing up, dance was freedom for me...until I let my size and other people's opinions stop me.

King Cake is something I loved more when it played hard to get with me. I used to have a love / hate relationship with it but now it's all love because King Cake isn't just a delicious baked good you can only get one time a year (if you're lucky), it's a taste of home.

I'm talking about three of my plant based go to's that you can make easily, quickly and affordably to get your plant based lovin’ on

Brooke talks about the NOT SO PHAT (Pretty Hot and Tempting) Symptoms of living with PCOS (from inexplicable weight gain to unwanted facial hair and everything in between) and how she struggled finding out what was "wrong" with her in order to treat herself right.

What's a Louisiana girl in New Jersey to do when she's craving a biscuit? Make an occasion of it, of course. 

In this inaugural episode - P.Y.T. (Phatty Young Thing), I tell tales about my struggles with self acceptances before AND after losing 100 pounds and how it's my mission to rediscover my inner PHAT (pretty hot and temping) girl - that young child who loved and accepted herself no matter what. I take us back to south Louisiana on Halloween in the late 1980s when I experience my first body shaming w...

Who IS Dat Phat Girl? It's me : Brooke Hoover A Louisiana native, actor, writer and comedian who's lost 100 pounds and is working on re-kindling a healthier relationship with Cajun comfort food and re-gaining my self confidence through tales growing up in the South in the 80s and 90s, Halloween costumes of yore and gigs as a working actor in order to re-disover my inner PHAT girl.  PHAT: Pret...