It’s a new year. And many are pledging the same boring resolutions of 2011, to lose weight! To become thin! (or thinner!), to use that treadmill covered with cobwebs! To fork over money to my old gym! To refill the seats at Weight Watchers! Cut those carbs, count those calories! Lower those fats! 2012 will be the year of a whole new me! There is a reason now you are bombarded with diet ads. They know one of the biggest resolution is to lose weight. Weight Watcher's current slogan is "Believe because it works." The New York Times begs to differ.
A full year after significant weight loss, these men and women remained in what could be described as a biologically altered state. Their still-plump bodies were acting as if they were starving and were working overtime to regain the pounds they lost.
Instead of those same tired resolutions we make each years (and yes, you should call your mother more often), let’s try something radical and different, reVolution. Let’s make changes at any time for the good of yourself and others. Dieting and intentional weight loss doesn't work for most of us in the long run. So why keep repeating these failures?
Revolution comes from real change. The only real change you might get from a diet is eating disordered. Although critic often say the fat acceptance movement are just fat people "giving up" but we aren't. What we are giving up that the thin cookie cutter ideal is a lie. We are giving up that food and movement is the enemy.
Health at Every size shouldn't be as radical as it is and it shouldn't be dismissed. The idea of eating healthy and normal foods and doing movement you enjoy and letting your weight fall 8777745wherever it is supposed to be isn't radical, it should be normal. Diets are the ones that are abnormal. They teach us healthy is only when you diet. Associations of health with dieting means if I'm off the diet, I shouldn't do anything healthy.
HAES shouldn't have to be a revolution, because it is something we can do, everyday.
My New Year's Resolution? Exercise 30 minutes every day, whether or not I lose weight. :)
Posted by: Zara | January 03, 2012 at 12:45 AM
If it worked, we wouldn't have to 'believe' would we? Do we have to believe in anti biotics or vaccination?
Posted by: wriggles | January 03, 2012 at 07:42 AM