Health Beyond Weight

Dear father, mother, spouse, partner, grandma, granddad, uncle, auntie, sister, brother, son, daughter, cousin, friend, acquaintance, co-worker, person-on-the-street-I've-never-met, I am writing this because in the past, you've made comments about my body. You've wolf-whistled as I've walked in the...

Why you think it's about the weight Before I talk about why you think it's about the weight, let's define what 'it' means. 'It' is your dissatisfaction with your body. 'It' is the heavy feeling you drag around every day. 'It' is your unhappiness; your disquiet; your sense that 'something's...

It's Weight Stigma Awareness Week - founded by the Binge Eating Disorder Association. The intention is to raise awareness about the harmfulness of shaming people because of their size. It's to draw awareness to the negative bias that exists in our society, towards overweight/obese/fat people. Who, Where,...

Do you care what size you are? I mean, do you care about the number? I remember noticing that my mother would cut the labels out of her clothing - and it wasn't due to sensory overload. It was because she didn't want a constant reminder of the size she was wearing (a size she didn't like). I picked...

In my last post I started the conversation about why weight loss isn't a helpful goal to focus on.  In this post I want to talk more about how weight loss as a goal can get in the way of becoming peaceful with food. It gets in the way of developing trust with your body If you're constantly worried...

Most people who come to me for help, want to lose weight. Or if they're at a weight they're comfortable with, they are terrified they'll put on weight. Yet they also want freedom from food: freedom from obsessive thinking about it; freedom to eat what, when and how much they want; freedom from the...