Shifting From Weight To Wellbeing with Linda Bacon

Linda Bacon, Health at Every Size, Body Respect

Do you still believe that being fat is unhealthy and losing weight will extend lives?

Yes?

Then this episode of Escape Diet Prison is for you.

This week I am joined by acclaimed research scientist, author and my personal hero Linda Bacon who shows that a focus on weight backfires. Instead, the best way to deal with health concerns is to end the quest for thinness, focus on good health habits, and let your weight naturally settle.

Linda Bacon backs her claims on solid research; so, if you’re still sceptical about the validity of the no diet lifestyle, listen to this episode. She has been published in top scientific journals and is the author of the highly acclaimed popular press books, Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight and Body Respect: What Conventional Health Books Get Wrong, Leave Out, or Just Fail to Understand about Weight.

You can learn more about Linda Bacon and her work at: www.lindabacon.org, join the HAES Community and ASDAH.

We talk about:

Linda’s Bat Mitzvah and the challenges posed by “becoming a woman.”
Gender Identity and how this relates to body image, dieting and weight
Worthiness and weight loss
The concept of Health in Health at every size
Body Respect
They myth of finding happiness in weight loss
What it means to be authentic and our strong desire to fit in at all cost
How to deal with the transition time when letting go of dieting as a lifestyle and adopting more HAES principles
and so much more.