The Non Diet Approach
Breaking Free
Watch this short video to find out if you have
CHRONIC DIETING SYNDROME
Whilst not an official medical condition, the term can be used to identify individuals who need help stepping out of the dieting merry-go-round
Do you
1. Have a persistent over concern with your body shape and weight?
2. Restrict your food choices and has this been ongoing for greater than 2 years?
3. Continually diet to achieve weight loss without success or with success but with weight regain?
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Health at Every Size® & The Non-Diet Approach
What is Health at Every Size®?
The Health At Every Size® Principles are:
- 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.
What is the Non-Diet Approach?
Developed by Fiona Willer, an Advanced Accredited Practicing Dietitian, university lecturer, researcher and experienced HAES® advocate.
It utilises five concepts:
- Accepting and embracing body cues
- Accepting and embracing all foods
- Accepting and embracing body shape
- Accepting and embracing movement
- Accepting and embracing non-diet nutrition