#weight-stigma tag

Wellness

Leave Diet Culture Behind and Reclaim Your Life

10 months ago

Wellness

Challenging Diet Culture in the Therapy Room

Wellness

6 days ago

Oprah, Ozempic, and Our Obsession With Weight

Oprah Winfrey's public weight scrutiny reflects broader cultural obsession with women's bodies, diet culture, and weight stigma that normalizes harmful commentary affecting mental health and self-esteem.

Wellness

Leave Diet Culture Behind and Reclaim Your Life

Wellness

10 months ago

Challenging Diet Culture in the Therapy Room

The impact of diet culture and weight stigma pervades all therapeutic settings.

Therapists must engage in self-reflection to mitigate bias in their practice.

Weight-neutral care enhances client trust and treatment outcomes.

Can You Lose Weight and Still Be Body Positive?

Body positivity challenges equating thinness with worth; caring for the body does not require weight loss, and health, dignity are not determined by body size.

#body-image

fromBuzzFeed

Mental health

The Latest Version Of Celebrity Thinness Isn't Just Annoying, It's Dangerous. I Should Know.

Public health

Words Matter, Including "Fat," "Obese," "Curvy," and "Heavy"

Psychology

What Are Your Body Beliefs?

Health

Why You Shouldn't Ask People How They Lost Weight

fromBuzzFeed

Mental health

The Latest Version Of Celebrity Thinness Isn't Just Annoying, It's Dangerous. I Should Know.

Public health

Words Matter, Including "Fat," "Obese," "Curvy," and "Heavy"

Psychology

What Are Your Body Beliefs?

Health

Why You Shouldn't Ask People How They Lost Weight

Medicine

The eureka moment that drove Oprah to reframe weight loss and banish shame involved a Post-It

fromwww.bbc.com

Public health

The myth of willpower - and why some people struggle to lose weight more than others

fromBusiness Insider

Medicine

The eureka moment that drove Oprah to reframe weight loss and banish shame involved a Post-It

fromwww.bbc.com

Public health

The myth of willpower - and why some people struggle to lose weight more than others

more#obesity

fromwww.mercurynews.com

Harriette Cole: They thought my weight gain was funny

Set clear boundaries against family weight comments and seek immediate help for suicidal thoughts, including crisis hotlines like 988.

fromSlate Magazine

I Work at a Fitness-Related Company. My Colleagues' Reactions to My Major Weight Loss Are Concerning.

Comments about coworkers' weight are inappropriate and harmful; weight changes can reflect serious health issues and should not be discussed casually at work.

Public health

fromPortland Monthly

The Public Health Educators Changing How We Think About Fat

Antifat bias and weight stigma cause chronic stress, healthcare avoidance, misdiagnosis, and mental and physical harm while societal programs assume fatness is inherently dangerous.

fromHuffPost

Mixed-Weight Couples Share The Most Toxic Things People Say To Them

When we first got together, people immediately assumed the reason we were a couple was because my husband had a fat fetish, which is extremely narrow-minded. We still get comments like: 'It must be hard knowing that someone is with you because of your size' or 'Is your husband a feeder?' or 'He wouldn't love you if you lost weight.'

Relationships

Internalized Weight Stigma and Eating Disorders

Weight stigma, including internalized stigma, causes psychological harm, social isolation, avoidance of care, and contributes to poorer long-term physical health.

5 months ago

Break Free From the Fear of Weight Gain

Weight bias causes stereotyping, bullying, discrimination, widespread anxiety about weight, and contributes to eating disorders through harmful dieting and biologic effects of prolonged restriction.

Public health

5 months ago

It's Not About the Weight, It's About the Weight Stigma

Weight stigma predicts greater psychological distress, healthcare avoidance and mistrust, reduced physical activity, and worsened physiological and behavioral health outcomes.

Public health