I Am Here For You
There are so many things to say, and unfortunately, “I’m surprised,“ is not one of them.
As I learned from my client, when someone unenrolls from Weight Watchers, they ask why you leave.
So when my client clarified her reason for leaving was related to having been diagnosed with and being treated for an eating disorder, she assumed, as I would have, that they would have respected her choice.
That was almost 2 years ago.
Bring on the New Year, New You, new Weight Watchers, but really, same @ww.
They’re sending her emails again.
As though her explanation was unclear.
As though her explanation was inadequate.
As though THEY were not part of the development of her eating disorder.
As though they believe that spending more years in diet hell would make her life better.
As though they care.
I am an anti-diet dietitian. I promote health practices utilizing non-diet interventions. I am not anti-people who choose to diet. Of course not. But decades of research and innumerable studies have made one thing patently clear: diet, for most, don’t work. Not in the long run. And not without pain.
I am an anti-diet practitioner because I do not believe in encouraging practices that separate my clients from their bodies. I do not believe in encouraging practices that are unsustainable in the long run and make people feel poorly when their bodies are so excellent at being bodies. I do not believe that constantly working to be smaller is life-enhancing for anyone. I do believe in body diversity. And in body respect.
I do believe that all humans are worthy of weight neutral, health promoting care, that is not contingent on a number on a chart.
Diet culture is a bully. And diet culture doesn’t care about the very real devastation that it brings.
I am here for YOU.
I am not here for that.
@ww move over. You’re hurting children with @kurbohealth and you’re perpetually harming of age consumers, too.
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