What if you feel that you need to lose weight? Perhaps you feel that it’s ok for others to be in a bigger body but you just can’t accept it for yourself. In this episode we discuss why it’s hard to simply let go of the desire to lose weight even if you want to pursue an anti-diet path..
If you experience discrimination due to your body size, pursuing weight loss can feel like the only way to support yourself. Society often doesn't feel like a safe place to ‘put weight on the back burner’ and we explore why it’s ok to know that diets don’t work but still have a deep-down desire to be thinner.
We explain how you may have been convinced that weight loss is the only route to health, but we share with you why health-promoting behaviours have very little to do with weight loss and what you can pursue instead.
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Statistics Mentioned in this episode:
Health behaviours in relation to BMI/Morbidity
https://www.jabfm.org/content/25/1/9
Probability of death in relation to BMI
https://www.nature.com/articles/497428a
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