Health At Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight
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Fat isn’t the problem. Dieting is the problem. A society that rejects anyone whose body shape or size doesn’t match an impossible ideal is the problem. A medical establishment that equates “thin” with “healthy” is the problem.
The solution?
Health at Every Size.
Tune in to your body’s expert guidance. Find the joy in movement. Eat what you want, when you want, choosing pleasurable foods that help you to feel good. You too can feel great in your body right nowand Health at Every Size will show you how.
Health at Every Size has been scientifically proven to boost health and self-esteem. The program was evaluated in a government-funded academic study, its data published in well-respected scientific journals.
Updated with the latest scientific research and even more powerful messages, Health at Every Size is not a diet book, and after reading it, you will be convinced the best way to win the war against fat is to give up the fight.
From the Publisher
Publisher : BenBella Books; Second edition (May 4, 2010)
Language : English
Paperback : 400 pages
ISBN-10 : 1935618253
ISBN-13 : 978-1935618256
Item Weight : 1.04 pounds
Dimensions : 6 x 1.06 x 9 inches
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Customers find the book provides useful information and great tips about health. They describe it as readable, well-written, and sincere. Readers say it frees them from feeling guilt and shame at weight cycling. They also mention it encourages positive and implementable changes that make health the primary focus.
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J. Bonfilio –
Finally the answers I’ve been seeking
I have struggled with my weight my entire life. I have dieted over the years, and after each “successful” weight loss, I have gained back twice as much as the original loss. I discovered the size-acceptance movement in the early ’90s and embraced my weight, maintaining it for 10 years, until my doctor discovered sugar in my urine. What followed was a seven-year nightmare of doctors, endocronologists, orders to lose weight, prescriptions of drugs I didn’t want to take and a reunion with body hatred and the battle of the bulge. I became obsessed and tortured by my struggle to keep the weight off that I had lost during this time. What started out as a quest for good health resulted in a diet roller coaster like none other I had ridden.I returned to therapy, met with a nutritionist, consulted my medical doctor, none of whom could give me answers as to why I couldn’t lose weight. The harder I tried, the easier it was to gain. I panicked as my weight began to creep closer to the original starting point, which was the highest it had ever been, when the supposed health problems began.I began to become suspicious of the common prescription of diet and exercise. I read books and spent endless hours on the internet searching for answers. I created a Meetup group for support. It was through one of the members of that group that I was introduced to Linda Bacon’s book “Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth about Your Weight.”I finished the book in a couple of days. It was such a good read, and I related to everything she talked about. I soaked up all the information, including the all-important message of size acceptance, something I’d lived and forgotten. The transformation of a diet mentality to self-acceptance, though, began long before I completed the book. I could feel the peace from within, peace I had been seeking for nearly a decade. It isn’t my fault. Nobody had every said that before. It had always been my fault. Failure was all I knew when it came to weight, body image, and dieting (despite great success in all other areas of my life). For the first time since the diabetes diagnosis, I feel an enormous freedom from guilt, shame, and failure.By the way, I controlled my sugar with a change in diet, and it came down after only losing 5 pounds. Back then I (and my doctor) attributed the normal sugar readings with the weight loss, not the change in foods I was eating. Now looking back, after reading this book, I realize it wasn’t the weight loss that “cured” my diabetes (for which my doctors claim there is no cure) just as it wasn’t the weight gain that caused my diabetes. One of the biggest (failed) motivators of losing weight and keeping it off was the diabetes. I no longer fear gaining weight, and ironically since changing my thinking, the gaining has ceased. For the first time in 7 years, I am maintaining my weight. And the most powerful observation is, by listening to my own body for cues as discussed in the book, I have been eating less, even during Thanksgiving. For the first time in my whole life, I did not stuff myself on Thanksgiving. And it wasn’t because I was dieting or trying not to. It was a very natural feeling to stop before that point.I highly recommend this book to everyone who struggles with a healthy relationship with food, everyone who diets, everyone who has several sizes of clothes on hand, and everyone who wants to be healthy.
Shaunta Grimes –
Be Prepared to Have Your Ideas about Health Challenged
This week, when we were in Las Vegas, I finished reading Dr. Linda Bacon’s book Health At Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight.Bacon didn’t coin the term Health at Every Size (HAES), as she points out in the book. It was a movement before her involvement. But she has written a book that spells it out in a very readable, understandable way.Health at Every Size starts with a discussion about the social and cultural myths surrounding weight. She talks about how at different times in the last century, women’s magazines have had articles about how to GAIN weight, instead of how to lose it. Maybe the most important lesson in the book is how the weight loss industry, which includes government agencies, lies and manipulates statistics in order to make us believe that if we are fat, we are going to die.1.) We’re all going to die. Skinny does not equal immortal. (In case you were wondering.)2.) The Center for Disease Control helped to design the `obesity crisis’ with false statistics.3.) The act of trying to obtain a `perfect’ weight causes far more health problems than the act of trying to be as healthy as possible at your current weight, whatever that may be.The first part of this book, for me anyway, felt like a battle cry.The next part of the book talks about Health at Every Size and how to implement it into your life.I’ll admit something here. I skipped ahead to section two. And I was confused. Because I was looking for menu plans and concrete steps to follow. I’ve read a lot of diet and `life style change’ books, starting with Susan Powter and ending right here. They all have steps to follow.This book doesn’t break HAES down that way, and at first I was confused. Because-well, how am I supposed to do this if you don’t tell me how? Where are the charts? What about a training schedule or a list of HAES friendly snacks?Then I went back and read from the beginning. (This was one of those times that my penchant for reading books backwards didn’t work out for me.)Turns out that HAES isn’t a diet. I was a little slow integrating that information, because I actually knew that going in. It isn’t a fitness plan. It isn’t anything other than a validation, permission to treat yourself well right this minute. So Bacon’s section two talks more about easing yourself out of what may well be a decades long addiction to dieting. It gives you permission to exercise because it’s fun and feels good, or even as training, rather than as a punishment for the sin of being fat. To enjoy whatever food you want to eat-literally, whatever food-without putting a moral judgment on it.HAES breaks down like this:1. Love yourself. Yourself today, not yourself 10 or 50 or 150 pounds from now. Your body is just your body, it is neutral morally.2. Eat good food, eat what you want and enough of it, and stop when you’re full.3. Move because it feels good, it is good for your health (yes, even if you never lose a pound) and it’s fun.Deceptively simple, right?Bacon does talk some about set points and how you may be keeping your body above its comfortable weight by eating past when you’re full and avoiding exercise. I was impressed, however, that she didn’t turn this into a weight loss book.Eating well and moving your body moderately will improve your fitness and your health-even if your body never gives up a single pound.If you’re anything like me, you have so many years of `accepting’ that your health and your weight are intricately tied, that turning that off is really difficult. It’s one thing to say “I can be fat and still fit” and another to believe it deep down. Even in the face of evidence that it’s true. Even knowing that feeling like you have to thin before you earn being fit is a response to cultural conditioning.You can buy this book on Amazon for about $10. You might be able to get it from your library. However you get it, prepare to have your ideas about your body, you culture and yourself be challenged.
Yesenna Buck –
Challenge your mindset to be kind to yourself
This book should be taken with a grain of salt. Obviously there are people who are exceptions to the rules, there are people on every end of extremes, and then thereâs genetics, social, and familial influences. As someone who has had an eating disorder for over a decade and has been so cruel to my self mentally and physically this book saved the relationship I have with myself and my health. Have an open mind when the author tells you to detangle the exaggerated relationship between weight and health. Our weight and BMI are simply an outdated way of trying to determine health. This book was so freeing, but you have to allow it to. Your relationship with food and weight and dieting are your own, but how you treat and nurture that relationship can be so radically different if you choose to do so. Even if you are only a tiny bit more kind to yourself on your journey to health (not thinness), a tiny bit more healthy, enjoy exercise just a bit more, or are kinder to people who struggle being overweight or classified as overweight then I think this book did itâs job. We are our own biggest critics and society isnât very nice either. Itâs time we take a step back and question why we canât be healthy at any size. (Again with a grain of salt) 🙂 be kind to yourself and enjoy life and all the movement and food it has to offer.
LIMH –
I was skeptical of the views in this book like many that have been on the “diet journey” for most of their lives. I’m 42 and I’ve been on some sort of diet for over 15 years. Recently, I came to the conclusion that no diet can make me accept my body for the wonderful machine it is and decided to focus on true health instead of simply weight loss. This book came to me at the right time, and confirmed what I knew all along. DIETS DONT WORK! Instead we need to love our bodies enough to give it the respect, nutrients and activity it needs to support it through a long and healthy life!!
Cliente de Kindle –
I broke many myths about health and weight. It gave me the information I was missing to guide my patients into body acceptance and embrace diversity. Forever thankful.
Cliente Amazon –
Este libro ofrece estudios y pruebas de lo que tenemos que saber cuando queremos controlar nuestro peso a costa de controlar nuestra dieta. Muy interesante
Heloisa Martins Costa –
Acho importantÃssimo as pessoas se darem conta de que é possÃvel ser saudável sendo gordo, magro, alto, baixo. Não estamos falando de pessoas com anorexia nem com obesidade mórbida. Mas, de pessoas normais. Este livro ajuda a entender que é importante ouvir a si mesma.
airflow –
Sollte meiner Meinung nach so ziemlich jeder gelesen haben. Ganz besonders aber Menschen, die in medizinischen Bereichen arbeiten!Es ist nicht übertrieben, wenn ich sage, dass das Buch mein Leben entscheidend verändert hat. Dick heiÃt eben doch nicht gleich ungesund ;)Kann ich besonders jetzt, zu Anfang des Jahres, wo scheinbar jeder auf Diät ist, wärmstens empfehlen.Besonders beeindrucken und überzeugend fand ich die wissenschaftlichen Fakten, mit denen die Thesen der Autorin gestützt werden.