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Unsure What Weight Stigma Is? Here’s A Quick Explainer
Weight stigma is a term that is commonplace in the anti-diet, HAES and eating disorder spaces. But if you are unsure exactly what weight stigma is, this article offers a quick(ish!) explainer. Weight loss is often pursued because of the immense pressure placed upon...
The Step That Has To Come Before Tuning Into Hunger And Fullness
To establish a more peaceful and easeful relationship with food and body, we just quit dieting and start tuning into our hunger and fullness, right? If you have tried to listen to your hunger and fullness after having been on a diet, or maybe after having spent years...
Feeling Out Of Control With Food If You Quit Dieting Is Not Your Destiny
If you were to consider not dieting or ‘watching your weight’ anymore, what would that look like to you? What would you be doing? What would you be eating? What would your eating patterns look like? When I explore the idea of moving away from diets and weight loss...
Why Weighing Yourself Is Unhelpful: A Case For Putting The Scales Away For Good
Weighing yourself is one of the trappings of the diet mentality that can be hard to let go of...
Naming The Villain: A Strategy To Promote Body Acceptance
Naming the villain rather than blaming the individual is one of the things writer and feminist marketing consultant Kelly Diels proposes needs to happen in order to shift current sleazy marketing tactics (scarcity, pain, the problem lies within the individual, the...
Creating Space
Can you recall a time in your life where you really felt you were showing up in the world as your true self – “living your best life” like Oprah says? (ugh, why does she have to have such great one liners and make such poor choices when it comes to investing in the...
Strawberry and White Chocolate Muffins
What do you do when you have a ridiculous amount of fruit at your disposal and not enough hours in the day and days in the week to eat it all before it spoils? You have to use them in baked goods! In this case, it was strawberry and white chocolate muffins. ...
Taking Imperfect Action
This idea of imperfect action isn’t original. I came across it in an article about overcoming writers block with blogging. And after a bit of digging, I found that it is a concept that is talked about often in the world of business and entrepreneurship. But as I was...
Portion Control And Mindful Eating
I’m just going to come right out and say it: portion control is NOT mindful eating. OK, now let me press pause and say; I get where portion control might seem like a legit way to eat mindfully. It is because we more commonly associate ‘being mindful’...
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