Healthy at any size
Food for thought.....
HAES- Health at every size. It's a revolutionary notion that you can be healthy and happy regardless of your weight.
The major components of HAES, as described by Jon Robison, are:
The basic, and very simple, idea is that you should eat healthfully and exercise because you care about your health and you enjoy it and not in response to a number on a scale. 95% of people who try to lose weight gain it back in 1-5 years.
The constant routine of dieting, losing, gaining and dieting is called weight cycling and is incredibly bad for your health. Of the 5% who manage to maintain weight loss it's usually only partial weight loss and is done mainly through starvation diets and diets are nothing but socially acceptable eating disorders. HAES focuses specifically on health and not on weight and reminds us that the two are not automatically linked and that obsessing over weight itself may actually be harmful in and of itself. You know all those fat people you run into who are health nuts? Yeah, they're probably practicing HAES and I'm definitely one of them. So eat your fresh organic spinach kiddos!
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HAES- Health at every size. It's a revolutionary notion that you can be healthy and happy regardless of your weight.
The major components of HAES, as described by Jon Robison, are:
Self-Acceptance: Affirmation and reinforcement of human beauty and worth irrespective of differences in weight, physical size and shape.
Physical Activity: Support for increasing social, pleasure-based movement for enjoyment and enhanced quality of life.
Normalized Eating: Support for discarding externally-imposed rules and regimens for eating and attaining a more peaceful relationship with food by relearning to eat in response to physiological hunger and fullness cues
The basic, and very simple, idea is that you should eat healthfully and exercise because you care about your health and you enjoy it and not in response to a number on a scale. 95% of people who try to lose weight gain it back in 1-5 years.
The constant routine of dieting, losing, gaining and dieting is called weight cycling and is incredibly bad for your health. Of the 5% who manage to maintain weight loss it's usually only partial weight loss and is done mainly through starvation diets and diets are nothing but socially acceptable eating disorders. HAES focuses specifically on health and not on weight and reminds us that the two are not automatically linked and that obsessing over weight itself may actually be harmful in and of itself. You know all those fat people you run into who are health nuts? Yeah, they're probably practicing HAES and I'm definitely one of them. So eat your fresh organic spinach kiddos!
- Posted using BlogPress from my iPad