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12 Steps
to Health At Every Size by Peggy Elam, Ph.D. 1. Stop weighing yourself. Shift your focus from weight & body fat to healthy behaviors & fitness. 2. Fire the food & body police. 3. Stop critical self-talk. Would you speak to a friend or loved one the way you do to your body? 4. Increase positive talk. Talk to & treat yourself & your body the way you would a cherished friend, loved one, or child. 5. Clean out your closets. Give or sell or throw away everything that doesn’t fit, is uncomfortable, or that you haven’t worn in years. Fill your closets with beautiful, comfortable clothing in your present size. 6. Eat well & mindfully. Enjoy your food. Let nothing be off-limits; there are no forbidden foods. Don’t restrict what you eat in order to lose weight, as those behaviors and attitudes have negative physical and emotional consequences. Focus instead on eating & living well. 7. Be active. Find, create, or rediscover activities that you enjoy, and engage in them regularly. 8. Listen to your body. It is the means by which your subconscious communicates with you. No one can discern your body’s messages better than you can, although you may need to re-learn its language. Pay attention to “gut feelings.” 9. Respect your body. It is a manifestation of and a conduit for your soul. Ensure that others respect it, too. 10. Reconnect mind & body. Increase your body awareness through yoga, walking meditation, Tai Chi, Qi Gong, massage & bodywork, and/or movement therapy (such as Feldenkrais). Focus on what your body can do and how good it can feel. 11. Address any emotional eating independent of weight change. 12. Invest in and support yourself rather than the weight loss, pharmaceutical, healthcare, fashion or beauty industries. © Peggy Elam, Ph.D.
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What's Health At Every Size? It's an approach to health and well-being that celebrates natural diversity in body size, encouraging people to stop focusing on weight (or any numbers on a scale, BMI, or calorie/fat/carbohydrate chart), dieting, or other weight loss efforts in favor of listening to and respecting their natural appetites for food, drink, sleep, rest, and recreation.
The basic
principles of
Health At Every Size (sometimes referred to as Health At Any Size, or Health For All Sizes) is a solution to health concerns that helps people live well without encouraging or reinforcing size/weight prejudices or phobias, poor body image, or eating disorders—or the negative health consequences of dieting-related weight loss and regain. Pearlsong Press endorses Health At Every Size, and promises that every book and product we publish or offer for sale, if published by another company, celebrates size diversity or at least does not contradict it.
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