carlin [he/him,comrade/them]

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  • There’s a bit of a tricky situation though, in that just because you lose weight doesn’t automatically mean you are healthier. Anorexic women are praised by society for their unhealthy eating habits, and fat anorexic women:

    Erin Harrop, a researcher at the University of Washington, studies higher-weight women with anorexia, who, contrary to the size-zero stereotype of most media depictions, are twice as likely to report vomiting, using laxatives and abusing diet pills. Thin women, Harrop discovered, take around three years to get into treatment, while her participants spent an average of 13 and a half years waiting for their disorders to be addressed.

    The HAES movement moves the focus from losing weight, as dieting is a strong predictor of eating disorders:

    In a large study of 14– and 15-year-olds, dieting was the most important predictor of a developing eating disorder. Those who dieted moderately were 5x more likely to develop an eating disorder, and those who practiced extreme restriction were 18x more likely to develop an eating disorder than those who did not diet. Golden, N. H., Schneider, M., & Wood, C. (2016). Preventing Obesity and Eating Disorders in Adolescents. Pediatrics, 138(3). doi:10.1542/peds.2016-1649

    Staying active and eat intuitively do lead to losing weight, but there are many ways to lose weight and harm your body. By focusing on health, you avoid a lot of these pitfalls


  • just to let you know, losing weight with your walk to work is something that is completely compatible with Health at Every Size. Like HAES doesn’t say you can’t lose weight, but that you should stay active, eat intuitively and losing weight can be a side effect of those healthier choices.* It’s hard for me to imagine that focusing on being healthy, rather focusing on decreasing your weight is complete bs.

    From what I can tell, I think you are mistaken that the “Health” in HAES is a noun rather than a verb

    edit: I meant * you should pursue staying active, eating intuitively rather than pursuing losing weight itself