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Nutrition and athletic performance often go hand in hand. While it’s typical to see athletes watching and managing what they eat, consuming fewer calories than their body requires to perform at their activity level can lead to a very serious condition know as Relative Energy Deficiency in Sports (RED-S), or what had previously been know…
When you’re recovering from an eating disorder or healing after years of dieting and restriction, your body and mind begin to restore in ways that are both powerful and, at times, uncomfortable. Physical changes-like shifts in weight, shape, or muscle tone-are not random or “out of control.” They are signs that your body is receiving consistent…
Cheers to another year around the sun! The New Year can bring a lot of excitement for the possibilities and opportunities to come, but it can also stir up some pressure to change. You know the old adage, “New Year, new me.” We can’t even go grocery shopping without being bombarded with diet-y messaging urging us to buy their “detox” powders or weight loss cookbooks.
Health at Every Size (HAES) is based on the wealth of research demonstrating that being in an “overweight” or larger body does not correlate with poorer health outcomes. Chronic diseases occur across BMI categories; they aren’t limited to the higher BMI categories. In fact, there is research to support the fact that a higher BMI, such as being considered “overweight,” is actually protective.
When you go to the doctor, one of the things that is probably listed on your chart is your Body Mass Index (BMI). Because it is talked about so commonly at doctors’ appointments and we see it all the time, it must be a super duper accurate, very scientific measure of health, right? WRONG. BMI…
In many social situations, “diet talk” comes up regularly. It weaves its way into conversations, questions, and stories, oftentimes without us even realizing it. Diet talk is sneaky – it comes up when you least expect it. Sometimes it disguises itself as a joke or a compliment. Regardless of how it manifests itself, it is…
In a world where we are constantly being told to change our bodies it makes sense that in terms of body trust, we may be lacking. Diet culture does it’s best to keep us stuck in this cycle of wishing our bodies were different. So what’s up with the desire for body change? Our societal obsession with…
In our society today we are flooded with the thought that thinness equals health. Either spoken out loud or through more subtle ways. The idea that weight is synonymous with health can lead to bias and stigmatization that is incredibly harmful. It’s called weight stigma and it’s real and pervasive. What is weight stigma? Weight…
So you’ve started to focus more improving your health, maybe through trying new foods or engaging in different types of movement. But it can feel like a difficult line to walk between working on improving health and developing an unhealthy relationship with food. With many of our eating disorder clients, it starts with small changes that…
Set point theory, which is really more fact than theory, is how we explain body diversity, and why so many (95%) people regain weight within 3-5 years after an initially “successful” dieting attempt.
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