Day 15: Getting active There’s nothing for it; I have to get moving. I love being active. My personal exercise of choice is walking. Somewhere outdoors is best, bonus points if it’s somewhere really pretty, hugs and kisses if it’s somewhere in the country. At the moment though I’m getting about half way through my […]
Health At Every Size
Are You Starving?
Day 14: Lets talk about food baby Lately I’ve been noticing just how much people talk about bodies, health, weight and food. It’s everywhere. It saturates main stream and social media. Food and diet reality shows are proliferating. More and more diet systems flood onto the market all the time and every other week a […]
What Is Intuitive Eating?
Day 13: What I know about intuitive eating I’ve been listening to a CD about intuitive eating which has a number of different processes to work through in order to move the recipient along the scale toward intuitive eating, one of the three parts that make up a Health at Every Size practice. Intuitive eating, sometimes […]
The Truth About Belly Fat
Day 11: Where Did This Belly Fat Come From? I’m a big girl. I know this, anyone who looks at me will know this, its not really a secret. You can’t tell how healthy I am from the way I look but you can tell that I’m fat. Despite that I’ve never really had belly […]
Maybe My Fat Is Killing Me
Day 10: Setbacks I’ve been sick over the last couple of days. Nothing serious, just a simple cold. It’s the second one I’ve had in the last three months, which is ironic because I don’t think I’ve had one for years before that. Since I’m in a process of challenging my beliefs about weight and […]
HAES Is A Journey Not A Destination
Recognize that you didn’t get to you openness to kicking the diet habit and becoming more accepting of your body weight – if you are even there now – overnight. It probably took a long time for you to be open to reading this book, to accepting the futility of dieting, and to knowing there […]
If You’re Fat You Gotta Lose Weight
Day 7: I Just Wanna Be ME I subscribed to Google alerts on HAES about three years ago, when I first read, or at least started reading Linda Bacon’s book. For those who don’t know Google alerts track instances of phrases published in the media on the Internet. To start out with I set up […]
Disregard Images That Marginalise You
Day 6: Reject what makes you feel bad I’m actively trying to change my awareness of my own thoughts and ideas about my health and well being at the moment and consequently I’m hyper aware of images I’m consuming. I’ve been watching Burn Notice season one over the weekend. For those who don’t know the show […]
How Often Do You Smile Or Laugh At Fat Jokes?
Day 5: Unpacking my Attitudes Towards Fat Reading through Health at Every Size by Linda Bacon on this journey of spending a year with HAES one of the first things on the program is to challenge what you really think about obesity, beliefs that you hold and so forth. Ask yourself the following questions. How […]
Changing Visual Cues
Day 4: Taking small steps I know I’ve been bitching about this HAES journey and how it seems so much like a weight loss, but the reality is I’ve been working on this stuff for a while now. One of the key things I’ve been doing is spending a lot of time on Pinterest (follow […]