I talk about restriction all the time. Physical restriction is the last thing you want for your relationship with food. But there is another kind of restriction that’ll mess you up just as badly, and it’s mental restriction. This is a really important concept (that Isabel Foxen Duke coined a version of the term as ’emotional […]

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 […]

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 […]