{"id":379,"date":"2009-06-15T10:38:48","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T14:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/normaleating.com\/blog\/?p=379"},"modified":"2009-09-16T21:23:10","modified_gmt":"2009-09-17T01:23:10","slug":"the-problem-with-the-fat-acceptance-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/normaleating.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/the-problem-with-the-fat-acceptance-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"The Problem with the Fat Acceptance Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I watched the <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/GMA\/story?id=7823614\">segment on Good Morning America<\/a> this morning about the Fat Acceptance movement. I&#8217;m all in favor of accepting yourself and loving yourself no matter what your weight. But I was very disturbed by the clear implication that if you stop dieting, you will gain 100 pounds like Marianne Kirby did. This is absolutely not the case. If you overcome emotional eating &#8211; a primary focus of my method, Normal Eating<span style=\"font-size:8pt;\">&reg;<\/span> &#8211; you will not stabilize at a morbidly obese weight. Countless people who have tried Normal Eating<span style=\"font-size:8pt;\">&reg;<\/span> can attest to this.<\/p>\n<p>This story &#8211; and perhaps the Fat Acceptance movement as a whole &#8211; does a disservice by implying that an externally prescribed diet is necessary to achieve and maintain a normal weight. Women watching this story will come away with the idea that if they stop dieting they&#8217;ll gain 100 pounds, which naturally will send them running to the next diet. But in fact, diets ultimately result in weight <i>gain<\/i> over 95% of the time &#8211; the yo-yo effect. Learning to eating normally &#8211; according to body wisdom &#8211; is the only long-term solution to weight problems.<\/p>\n<p>We need a movement in this country to accept normal-sized bodies. Most of the images we see all around us are underweight. But a fat acceptance movement that implies you will weigh 300 pounds if you stop dieting actually encourages people to continue dieting. This is a terrible disservice because diets don&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts? Comments? I&#8217;d love to hear them.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched the segment on Good Morning America this morning about the Fat Acceptance movement. I&#8217;m all in favor of accepting yourself and loving yourself no matter what your weight. But I was very disturbed by the clear implication that if you stop dieting, you will gain 100 pounds like &hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48],"tags":[33,17],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/normaleating.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/normaleating.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/normaleating.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normaleating.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normaleating.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/normaleating.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/normaleating.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normaleating.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normaleating.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}