Tag: weight gain
advocacy
The addiction of weight loss
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New types of weight loss drugs are being touted as life-changing in the “war” on obesity. Television commercials run consecutively, claiming easy access and low prices. And it scares the daylights out of me. I’ve hesitated to write about this thorny subject. At the end of one commercial, the actor...
advocacy
In diet culture, ‘gain’ is feared and despised
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Gain is not a four-letter word—at least not in the bad way fostered in diet culture. Diet culture taught me to fear and hate that word for decades. As I strived to achieve and maintain a smaller version of my body, I became a smaller version of myself partly because...
Eating Disorders
Is gaining weight the worst outcome for me during a global pandemic?
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I have pondered this question repeatedly for the past few months. Sometimes it has kept me awake at night, because what if ‘it’ happens while I am not paying attention? What if the weight creeps in unannounced and I can’t do anything to stop it? I panic. “I can’t let...
Forget the scales, gaining weight as a person is the real marker in eating disorder recovery
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‘Gaining weight in my life is giving me life’ By Karyn Braveheart Gaining weight is something l have struggled to do for a very long time. Now, after a lot of hard work and many hospital admissions, I am experiencing the positives in gaining weight. For sure, my everyday fear...
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