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When I received a solicitation from her this year to be a part of her summit for a second time, I was like, “Whoa, my mind has really changed about using a plant based diet as a way of achieving the thin ideal. Here’s what Stephanie has to say about her summit this year: If you are like most women, you have probably tried diet after diet.. after diet. I’m on a major mission to change the way we see food, diets, and our bodies so that women like you can stop dieting and start living. The messages from the speakers in this interview series will liberate you from your diet mentality and reassure you that you do not have to work so hard and maintain so much willpower to achieve a blissful life where you actually love your body.

I’m forty-seven years old now, and I don’t remember a time in my life when food wasn’t a really wonky issue for an extended period of time. And until this past year, I never heard an explanation for my weird food behaviors other than: and/or (c) there must be something very wrong with our food supply because it’s the food’s fault that I can’t stop eating it precisely when I’ve consumed 1500 calories a day and therefore cannot maintain a svelte body. the food addict’s diet-no sugar, no flour, weighing and measuring every ounce of food and still, the end result was NO LASTING PEACE WITH FOOD. You won’t need to binge because (a) your body won’t be starving anymore and (b) why would you stuff yourself with anything when you can eat whatever you want to at any time in the future

If you don’t know who she is, it’s very likely worth your time to listen to a few podcast episodes she’s been featured on (like this one and this one) and also to sign up for her mailing list. Okay, so here’s the way you become 1000% happier in, basically, a few hours: STOP FOLLOWING ANYTHING ON SOCIAL MEDIA This includes but is not limited to magazines, television shows, diet gurus, diet doctors, self-proclaimed experts, fitness gurus, the “strong is the new skinny” brigade, etc. I think it goes without saying, but I’ll say it anyway, start following things that make you feel great, including but not limited to people who promote the idea that humans come in all shapes and sizes like Bodyposipanda on Instagram.

My weight went up, my weight went down, my health was (luckily) stable, and I felt terrible-horrible about this thing that I perceived to be the only giant failure in my otherwise very successful life-I couldn’t stay thin. Although evidence links obesity and being overweight to a number of health problems, HAES advocates argue that traditional interventions focused on weight loss, such as dieting, do not reliably produce positive health outcomes. Evidence to support the view that some obese people eat little yet gain weight due to a slow metabolism is limited, and often false, as studies have shown that obese individuals incorrectly self-report calories consumed; on average, obese people have a greater energy expenditure than their healthy-weight counterparts due to the energy required to maintain an increased body mass. HAES proponents believe that health is a result of behaviors that are independent of body weight and that favouring being thin discriminates against the overweight and the obese.