What If You Never Lose the Weight?
February 4, 2018 by Karen R. Koenig
Filed under Binge Eating, Body Image, Disordered Eating, Fat Acceptance, Loving Your Body, Obesity, Recovery, Self-Acceptance, Self-Care, Self-Compassion, Weight Stigma
A topic that has cropped up with clients recently is the question of what to do if they keep trying to eat more healthfully, exercise and take better care of their bodies and still don’t lose weight. Clients dance around this question and I suspect I do too at times. They want reassurance that if […]
Is Energy Work the Solution?
April 13, 2017 by Angela Mensah
Filed under Advocacy, Body Dysmorphia, Body Image, Exercise, Fat Acceptance, Fat Talk, Healthy Communication, Mindfulness, Obesity, Weight Stigma, Yoga and Meditation
I have not written anything in a while and this will be very brief. Many of us have full lives, taking on many roles in society and never slow down, unless we are forced to. That happened to me on May 30th 2015 due to a car accident. I was not at fault and was […]
What Are We Really Afraid of in Becoming Fat?
December 7, 2016 by Karen R. Koenig
Filed under Advocacy, Body Dysmorphia, Body Image, Empowerment, Fat Acceptance, Fat Talk, Featured, Finding Your Voice, Loving Your Body, Obesity, Self-Acceptance, Self-Care, Self-Compassion
When clients talk about not wanting to be “fat” or become “fat,” I ask them what exactly that means to them. What images do they conjure up, what do those images say about them and the society we live in, and what is having a “fat” body all about for them, whatever their current weight? […]
Critical Fat Care: Recovering from a Concussion
March 31, 2016 by Angela Mensah
Filed under Activism, Advocacy, Body Image, Bullying, Empowerment, Fat Acceptance, Healthy Communication, Politics, Self-Care, Self-Compassion, Weight Stigma, Wellness
When you get into a car accident and you are Fat, a Woman and African American of Slave Decent, your experience is unique, to say the least. I still and always will believe that my life experiences as a Fat person, outweigh those of being a Black Woman. This could be different for other black […]
4 Tips to Feeding Your Inner Self with Self Care
May 8, 2015 by iaedp
Filed under Body Image, Eating Disorders, Exercise, Fat Acceptance, Featured, Food Revolution, HAES, Healthy Communication, Healthy Coping, Healthy Eating, Intuitive Eating, Loving Your Body, Mindfulness, Nutrition, Prevention, Self Esteem, Self-Care, Wellness
In order to survive and create balance, start connecting with your true self. In a world of external focus where a scale determines your worth and your salary defines your success, you need to turn inward to find wellness and well-being. In order to survive and create balance, start connecting with your inner core — […]
#WATRD loves you @Meghan_Trainor
November 21, 2014 by Robyn Hussa Farrell
Filed under Body Image, Empowerment, Fat Acceptance, Featured, Finding Your Voice, HAES, Loving Your Body, Role Models, Self-Acceptance
The #RealDeal body image blog would like to applaud the fabulous Meghan Trainor for her rockstarness. This is what being “unapologetically yourself” is all about! Real Deal Editor, Robyn Hussa Farrell
Positive Self-Talk with a Twist
November 5, 2014 by Karen R. Koenig
Filed under Anorexia, Binge Eating, Body Image, Bulimia, Depression, Disordered Eating, Fat Acceptance, Fat Talk, Healthy Coping, Healthy Eating, Intuitive Eating, Mental Health, Recovery, Self Esteem, Stress Management, What to Say, How to Say It
Who doesn’t know that it’s better to speak positively than negatively to yourself as a foundation for transformation? Hopefully all of you. Now here’s a new twist: when speaking to yourself, replacing the “I” word with “you” or your own name. Studying “the pronouns people use when they talk to themselves silently, inside their minds,” […]
Body Image Myths and the Last Accepted Prejudice
October 24, 2014 by Amy Leigh Mercree
Filed under Activism, Body Image, Empowerment, Fat Acceptance, Fat Talk, Featured, Guys, HAES, LGBT, Loving Your Body, Media Literacy, Self Esteem, Self-Acceptance, Self-Care, Self-Compassion, Weight Stigma, Wellness
A lot of us spend a lot of time consuming media from all directions. Print, online, video, audio. We are bombarded with messages about how we are supposed to look. For women, the pressure to achieve the ideal female body image is powerful. All-around we are shown images of hyper-slim, either tall or petite, large […]
Improving Body Dissatisfaction
September 3, 2014 by Karen R. Koenig
Filed under Body Image, Fat Acceptance, Featured, Loving Your Body, Recovery, Self Esteem, Self-Acceptance, Self-Care
Our view of our bodies is not fixed as you might think. The way people think about their overweight bodies may be due to the size and weight of people around them. Or so says a new-1.3 million person study from the University of California-Boulder. According to a Journal of Health and Social Behavior study […]
The Body Image Revolution
August 1, 2014 by iaedp
Filed under Body Image, Bullying, Fat Acceptance, Fat Talk, HAES, Loving Your Body, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Obesity, Role Models, Self Esteem, Self-Acceptance, Weight Stigma, Wellness, Wellness
Something revolutionary happened this week. A woman posted a photograph of herself in her underwear on the Internet. Although there are thousands of pictures of women in their underwear on-line (and in magazines, catalogs, television, billboards, etc…), this picture was different. It was different because this woman is fat. Stella Boonshoft is an 18 year-old […]
