The Health At Every Size movement is known as the new peace movement. It not only accepts body diversity, but celebrates it. Because our bodies are so extraordinary and they deserve to be praised and loved and honored and cherished. Every. single. one. of. them.
There is so much diet culture and negative stigma about weight and being in a larger body and guys!! Open your eyes to the stupidity!! Fat is not bad and it most certainly does not equal being unhealthy!! Both larger and smaller bodies can both be unhealthy and I truly cannot STAND the view that absorbs society.
I am tired of seeing “being healthy” linked only to eating specific foods or working out or focusing on nutrition labels or restricting what you actually want to do or eat to influence your body image or doing whatever other bullshit there is out there. Yes, I will happily call it bullshit. Because that is what it is.
Health can be at every single size. Let me repeat that being in a larger body DOES NOT MEAN YOU ARE UNHEALTHY. Shame on anyone who shames others into believing that there is something wrong with them for looking a certain way. There is absolutely nothing REMOTELY wrong with the way you look and for all you who have suffered from negative body image – whether it be right now or in the past – I am truly, whole-heartedly, BEYOND sorry you’ve been taught to believe that.
We are all unique and I for one am DONE trying to please others by putting myself own. I am not going to look a certain way just so other people “like me more” or “think i’m prettier” or any of the dumb thoughts we get flooded with. Because why bother putting yourself through an unnecessary hell, all because people are uneducated and close-minded. Don’t you ever give society your power when it is trying to change who you are.
One thing I get completely blown away at, is the fact that diet industries (whether that be food related or workout related) will do absolutely anything and everything in their power to get your money. That is all it is guys. They get you by toying with your emotions, and thats where the line needs to finally be drawn. They tell you that X is the best, that you need to weigh X, that you need to eat X…. that is messed up. You eat when you are hungry and your body sends signs. It’s like people have just forgotten that we are HUMAN BEINGS and not ROBOTS! Genetics are a thing! And they are different for EVERYONE! The body is complex and diet industries push us to believe that they really aren’t. Every single person could do the exact same routine and they’d still look different. We were not made to look the same. THAT IS THE BEAUTY OF LIFE!! WE ARE ALL UNIQUELY OUR OWN!!
The principles of the Health At Every Size movement include:
- Weight Inclusivity: Accept and respect the inherent diversity of body shapes and sizes and reject the idealizing or pathologizing of specific weights.
- Health Enhancement: Support health policies that improve and equalize access to information and services, and personal practices that improve human well-being, including attention to individual physical, economic, social, spiritual, emotional, and other needs.
- Respectful Care: Acknowledge our biases, and work to end weight discrimination, weight stigma, and weight bias. Provide information and services from an understanding that socio-economic status, race, gender, sexual orientation, age, and other identities impact weight stigma, and support environments that address these inequities.
- Eating for Well-being: Promote flexible, individualized eating based on hunger, satiety, nutritional needs, and pleasure, rather than any externally regulated eating plan focused on weight control.
- Life-Enhancing Movement: Support physical activities that allow people of all sizes, abilities, and interests to engage in enjoyable movement, to the degree that they choose.
Download a copy of ASDAH’s HAES Principles here.
I really could never stress this enough: You Are Beautiful.
hold on, let me say that again.
Y O U A R E B E A U T I F U L!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HYPE YOURSELF UP BECAUSE YOU ARE EXTRAORDINARY AND GORGEOUS. YOU HAVE A BODY AND A MIND LIKE NO OTHER HUMAN BEING ON THE PLANET AND MY GOODNESS THAT IS INCREDIBLE. EVERY SINGLE PART OF YOU IS EXCEPTIONALLY ASTONISHING AND IT IS TIME FOR YOU TO FEEL IT. IT IS TIME FOR YOU TO STEP INTO YOUR OWN POWER AND LIVE THE LIFE YOU WANT. LIVE BEYOND THE LIMITATIONS OF YOUR PAST AND OF THOSE WHO HAVE HELD YOU DOWN. YOU ARE YOU. CELEBRATE IT.
That was aggressive and I’m so glad I got that out. I am 100% serious everyone, it’s time for you all to fly.
I love you all <3
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