Ragen Chastain is a former national dance champion and choreographer. She is also fat. And she’s got a lot to say about fat acceptance and the Health at Every Size movement. I’ve read a few books about how to live your life as a fat person and was not impressed. Ragen’s book, “Fat: The Owner’s Manual,” was different. Ragen takes […] read more »
Today, Linda Bacon, PhD, and author of “Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight” is guest speaking at Green Mountain. In advance of her visit, alum and blogger Jill C offers her take on the book and Dr. Bacon’s philosophies. Leave a question for Dr. Bacon in the comments below, and we’ll pick one at random to […] read more »
When you shop from links on http://www.plussizeyellowpages.com, a small percentage of the sale will go to Lifestyle Watchers(R), a new non-profit organization dedicated to providing an alternative to weight watching and yo-yo dieting. Lifestyle Watchers is the brainchild of psychotherapist Kelly Bliss, who developed the Plus Size Yellow Pages back in 2000. She’s spent a ton of time this year […] read more »
Today’s post is another from a blog I wrote for a couple of years ago. It addresses the subject of size acceptance, and it’s a subject that confounds many of our best efforts. I often ask women to imagine that after successfully putting a healthy lifestyle in place, they found their weight remained the same. How would they feel? Would […] read more »
To many of us, the title of this post is a bit of a duh. When it comes down to it, for many, many people, the struggle of weight is primarily focused on how we look. Thin remains in. Following is a post I wrote for Real Deal Girls a while ago but for some reason, failed to re-post it […] read more »
Today’s post is written by Marci Anderson, RD, a registered dietitian in the Boston area who works exclusively with people who struggle with eating disorders, body image and weight concerns, as well as emotional and compulsive eating. The post details her thoughts after listening to a debate of the same name as this post at the annual meeting of The […] read more »
The best laid plans…. No, we’re not on WordPress yet, and at this point, we’re not sure when we will be. So back to the basics. Speaking of which, did you see the study published last week that utilized the Edmonton Obesity Staging System to determine health risks of obesity? It showed something that many of us have been saying […] read more »
Readers of this blog are likely familiar with weight stigma. But if you need a definition, here’s a good one from Janet Zimmerman, intern for the Binge Eating Disorder Association (BEDA): “Weight stigma is bullying, teasing, negative body language, harsh comments, discrimination, or prejudice based upon a person’s body size. Weight stigma is something that shames and hurts many people […] read more »
In case you missed all the ways we’ve been getting the word out (Twitter, Facebook, email), we’ll tell you here. A story on Health at Every Size that features Green Mountain hit the newstands this week. Delightful writer Marjorie Ingall visited us a few months ago on behalf of Prevention magazine after the editors had been convinced by prominent leaders […] read more »
Playing a little catch-up here, the result of a presentation I debuted yesterday at Green Mountain. In it, I reviewed a few of the conclusions from a paper published last January (hence the title of this post) in the Nutrition Journal by Linda Bacon of HAES fame and Lucy Aphramor. It’s titled “Weight Science: Evaluating the Evidence for a Paradigm […] read more »
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