When you want to eat normally and listen to your body, but are petrified of gaining weight – you will never be able to eat normally. When you want to get another helping because you are still hungry, but choose not to because you are petrified of gaining weight- you are not eating normally. When you want […]
March 4, 2016
Q: Intellectually I understand the HAES paradigm and would love to live by it. But have you ever been obese? Like over 200 pounds and you can *feel* the weight of it? If you haven’t, maybe you can’t understand that burden. You might know what body hatred feels like, but being truly overweight is something […]
February 21, 2016
People going through their own healing relationship with food always want to know what other people’s experiences were like. Understandably. It can be helpful to hear what someone else went through, and it can be inspiring to hear how different they now feel on the other side. But it can also be dangerous if you start comparing every […]