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A Path to Healing for Chronic Dieters

We have all fallen victim to diet culture, food rules, and fad diet buzzwords like “detox”, “clean eating,” and “metabolism boosting.” Diet culture has infiltrated the media, marketing, and our minds! I am here to tell you, you don’t have to continue down this guilt-ridden path. There is a way to heal your relationship with […]

Fat Liberation Month

By now we have all heard of diet culture and body positivity. Most people, through personal experience, understand the negative consequences of the societal pressures to be thin, muscular, or shaped like an hourglass. We feel some hope when we see more variety in body shapes and sizes in pop culture like Lizzo or the […]

Health Isn’t All-Or-Nothing

By Mary Radovich Most of us know what we could be doing to be healthier, but feel stuck or don’t know where to start. The problem is, a lot of our ideas of what we “should” be doing are not based in the realities of our lives. Comparing goals to celebrities with nothing but time […]

Live Life Like You’re At Your Goal Weight

By Mary Radovich What are you putting off until the scale hits that magic number? Buying new clothes? Going on a beach vacation? Dating? How long have you been waiting to engage in life, instead of living it? What would it be like to give up that goal weight and learn to live life each […]

Why the Holiday Season is the Perfect Storm for Dieters and Binge Eaters

By Mary Radovich Surely you’ve seen messages like this floating around recently: “10 Steps to Prevent Holiday Weight Gain!”, “Lighten Up Holiday Recipes to Prevent Holiday Pounds From Piling On!”, “New Year, New You!” Every year at this time, disordered attitudes about eating and weight are everywhere you turn, being widely disseminated by news outlets, bloggers, […]

Going Keto Won’t Help You Love Your Body

By Mary Radovich Lowering your carbohydrate intake to the point where your body has to break down fat sounds like a legit way to lose weight. However, the Keto diet, (or Atkins 2018 as I like to call it) is not the magical weight loss method that many celebrities, trainers, and maybe your friends and […]

What Should I Eat?

By Mary Radovich Well…what do you want? What do you have? What are you doing? When is the next time you’ll eat? These are the things you should consider when deciding what to eat. Instead, many of us consider other things like “I heard this is bad,” or “this has too much sugar,” or “I […]

The health at every size movement and how it will change the way you look at food—and yourself

By Lindsey Arens It’s exactly what it sounds like. It’s the belief that a number on a scale or the size of your pants does not determine health. Health at Every Size (HAES) is a movement that supports people of every size and challenges the mindset that thin = healthy. If you are intrigued at […]