Ouch.

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No One’s Gonna Stop Me…Now!

I have a feeling that some of you check in on this blog just to see how long my “happy” lasts. With all of the ups and downs I’ve had the last couple of years, let alone months, certainly the permanency of joy is always going to be held in question or doubt. Yeah, even [...]



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Your Fat Is (Allegedly) Killing You!!!: Weight Stigma And The Dangerous Nocebo Effect

When you work pretty exclusively with plus-sized women, like I do, you hear some harrowing tales of stigma. To be honest, though, the most horrifying and enraging stories I hear often take place in a doctor’s office. I’ve noticed that many of my twenty-something clients were told at some point in their lives by some [...]



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The High Cost of Weight Stigma

It has become quite a popular practice to calculate the “costs” of obesity. (As if it’s ok to decide that a group of people with shared physical characteristics should be eradicated to make things cheaper.) There are many, many problems with the calculations, but I think it’s important to realize that in our society fat […]



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Guest blog - Daily Life with a gastric bypass

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Book review: Gorgeously Full Fat by Sarah Clark

A couple of weeks ago, a colleague shared about a new book on Facebook. The book was called ‘Gorgeously Full Fat — Live like you love yourself!’ by plus-size body-image blogger Sarah Clark. So I checked it out on Amazon (available in paperback and Kindle) and had a look through the free preview. It looked […]



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Announcing The HAES® Master Class Anniversary Special!

I can’t believe it’s been a year since I brought together 16 amazing speakers to talk about Health At Every Size at the HAES® Master Class! In honor of this anniversary, I’m running a very special deal on access to all 16 HAES® Master Class recordings! Now through midnight Eastern on Sunday, September 22nd, you [...]



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