by Nina Mills | 19 Nov, 2021 | Body Respect, Dismantling Diet Culture
“I have a question about navigating seeing people (mostly relatives) who I haven’t seen in a year (or even two due to COVID), and the fact my body is bigger than when they last saw me. I think my question is twofold – one part is how to respond if they...
by Nina Mills | 8 Aug, 2021 | Body Respect, Dismantling Diet Culture
Flimsy waiting room chairs. Waiting rooms plastered with fatphobic magazines, posters and pamphlets. “One size fits all” blood pressure cuffs, examination gowns and speculums. And then there is what happens once you are in the healthcare providers office…...
by Nina Mills | 11 Dec, 2020 | Body Respect, Dismantling Diet Culture
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by Nina Mills | 1 Nov, 2020 | Binge Eating, Body Respect
There’s no point mincing words here, if you have just binged or eaten way past the point of comfortable fullness (this is how I prefer to refer to overeating BTW, but to avoid making things too wordy, I will use ‘overeating’ from this point on), you are...
by Nina Mills | 13 Oct, 2019 | Body Respect, Dismantling Diet Culture
Convenience food and processed food have a lot of stigma attached to them. Using them is considered to be taking the easy way out. Cheating. Being lazy. Convenience food and processed foods are seen as being inferior. They are unhealthy. Eating them is a ticket to...
by Nina Mills | 6 Aug, 2019 | Body Respect, Food Allergies and Intolerances, Reconnect With Your Body
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...