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A space for sharing all things body image and eating disorders related. All blog entries are written by our staff, those with a lived experience and professionals.

Tag: HAES

26 Jul 2023
Experience

A Fitness Instructor in Eating Disorder Recovery Talks Healing From Toxic Fitness Culture

Whether it’s feeling intimated in the gym, only exercising for weight-loss, or being berated by fitness instructors to push your body to its limits, toxic fitness culture can be incredibly damaging. In this blog, Henry shares how he is navigating toxic fitness culture while in recovery from an eating disorder.
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30 Sep 2021
Research

Why you shouldn’t let BMI define your health

In recent times it has been reported that the use of the BMI fosters weight-based discrimination and stigma, exacerbates mental health concerns such as eating disorders, increases body dissatisfaction [ii], and that it is “a very poor proxy of health… [that can] potentially lead to more harm than good”. Here's why you shouldn't let BMI define your health.
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06 Sep 2021
Tips

Taking back the power – how to reduce the impact of diet culture on your life

This Body Image and Eating Disorders Awareness Week (BIEDAW), take back the power that diet culture has on your life, with these strategies to reduce the impact of harmful media messaging that equates weight with success.
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06 May 2021
Resource

No Diet Day: HAES Dietitian Fiona Willer’s Thoughts

Dietitian Fiona Willer shares why she is still ditching diets, years after being diagnosed with an eating disorder, and why she is dedicated to being a Health at Every Size (HAES) practitioner.
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06 May 2021
Experience

No Diet Day: Why our community are ditching diets for good

International No Diet Day is a day to celebrate and accept all bodies, in all forms of diversity. A day to remember and focus on why we fight against body discrimination, weight stigma, diet culture and fat phobia. A day to leave the food rules at home and eat what you want, when you want, because you enjoy it. No guilt, no bad feelings, no obsessions. A day to just... be. Hear from our social community who share how we can dismantle diet culture and why we should all ditch diets for good.
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30 Mar 2021
Resource

What is weight bias and fatphobia, and how can we challenge it?

“Specifically, research has consistently shown that increased exposure and close contact with those who living in larger bodies leads to reduced weight bias.” Weight bias and fatphobia is harmful, but there are ways to challenge it.
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11 Mar 2021
Experience

Orthorexia: How my pursuit of ‘health’ resulted in an eating disorder

What started out as a simple choice to eat "healthy" foods quickly spiraled into an eating disorder for Sophie. Here she explains her experience with Orthorexia, an emerging eating disorder, and what helped her in her recovery journey.
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03 Feb 2021
Experience

On Chronic Pain, Eating Disorders and Weight Stigma

When Nic McDermid was diagnosed with a chronic illness and an eating disorder, she couldn’t help but wonder if the treatment she received would have been different if she wasn’t fat. Now a fat activist, writer and speaker, Nic has learnt to reclaim the word fat as an empowering and important term – but it’s clear more needs to be done surrounding weight stigma in the wider community.
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