How To Love Your Body

Welcome to this week’s episode of How to Love Your Body, today we are talking about the common question we get: “But what if someone REALLY NEEDS to lose weight? What if someone is xx lbs, and they HAVE to lose weight?” NOTE: This is a fat phobic question but it is important to address why this question is so damaging in many ways for all. This question, or a version of it comes up a surprising amount.  It rears its head when we share that we advise people to not pursue weight loss (regardless of body size), that intuitive eating involves allowing all food, unconditional permission to eat and getting rid of all food rules. This is a MAJOR paradigm shift from diet culture which almost all of us came from. To hear the opposite of what we were always taught makes a lot of people uncomfortable EVEN if they KNOW dieting doesnt work. Theyve been at it for 20 or 30 years and it hasnt worked, its caused a lot of damage mentally and physically… but dont pursue weight loss at all? That seems crazy, certainly this