I consider myself a weight-neutral dietitian. A dietitian who focuses on behavior change rather than weight loss to improve overall health and wellbeing. It is something that I actually started practicing on my own before I had ever heard of Health At Every Size (HAES). It was something that I learned from experience by working …
Confessions of a Chronic Dieter
When I was eleven years old, I went on my first diet. I don’t even remember what it was exactly, but I do remember feeling the need to cut back on my eating. The discovery of a seven-day diet plan had opened my eyes to society’s standards of beauty and body size, and my prepubescent …
The Idol of Thinness
It’s interesting to look back to through history and realize that thinness was not a standard of beauty until the last one hundred years or so. Prior to that, larger bodies were associated with better health, fertility, and higher social status. With the creation of the body mass index as a way to estimate one’s …