I was quoted on the Dallas Morning News about flying while fat! (content note for weight stigma)

https://www.dallasnews.com/arts-entertainment/travel/2023/07/19/do-plus-size-passengers-deserve-a-bigger-seat-on-a-plane

#WeightStigma #Fatphobia #FatLiberation #FatRights

We find great encouragement in this new study of #CBT to reduce #internalized #WeightStigma. It goes down in CBT for weight loss and even a bit more with CBT for self stigma added in. Kudos to Rebecca Pearl et al.
https://conscienhealth.org/2023/05/success-in-reducing-self-stigma/

Please. Stop. Telling. Children. To Lose. Weight. #medtwitter #pediatricians #weightstigma
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RT @carmiwhite80
@Jameson_Chap @CheriLev I was put on my first diet at 8 because my pediatrician said, in front of me, that if I reached puberty being fat I would be fat my whole life. I am indeed fat, and that was because of all the weight cycling and dieting cycles, and medical profession still hasn’t changed much ☹️
https://twitter.com/carmiwhite80/status/1654584591683031041

RT @Blurrfect
Such an important read!! 👏👏With amazing quotes and perspectives from previous #PictureBlurrfect guests like @CheriLev & Lisa Kilpela!
#weightstigma #EatingDisorders

https://www.statnews.com/2023/04/25/eating-disorders-treatment-weight-stigma/

Weight Loss Programs & Weight Stigma
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The entire weight loss industry is built around two things: control and making money. Except our weight isn't an indicator of health and it isn't something that's 100% under our control. In this episode
https://podcast.chickenyogi.com/weight-loss-programs-weight-stigma/
#PodcastEpisodes ##Noweigh #weightbias #weightloss #weightstigma #weightwatchers

RT @CheriLev
If you are a medical dr & you truly care about your fat patients - here is how to best help them (& people at every size!)

1. Advise on healthy behaviors
2. Do not advise on weight
3. Work to end systemic issues
4. Stop blaming individuals

#haes #eatingdisorders #weightstigma

4. See pt 2. Blaming individuals is #weightstigma

It leads to all the things docs want to prevent - it makes patients not go to the doctor -which surprise surprise does not lead to good outcomes

Weight stigma also makes drs overlook real issues blaming them instead on ob*sity

If you are a medical dr & you truly care about your fat patients - here is how to best help them (& people at every size!)

1. Advise on healthy behaviors
2. Do not advise on weight
3. Work to end systemic issues
4. Stop blaming individuals

#haes #eatingdisorders #weightstigma

The most significant thing that caught my attention (among many) is that #mentalhealth seems to be only indirectly mentioned. Although they have addressed #weightstigma and bias multiple times, which is commendable. I'm looking forward to seeing more discourse change and progress in this area! (4/4)

RT @UMass_SPARC
Episode 5 of our S.T.A.Y. Tuned Podcast for #YoungAdults. "The WEIGHT of Weight Stigma" w/Dr. Nana Yaa Marfo https://buff.ly/41QeM0q
#WeightStigma #BodyPositivity #BodyAcceptance #YouthMentalHealth
@Scott1Griffiths @gemmasharp11 @CheriLev @monicaagar21 @CarolynCRossMD

Your stigma is literally killing us 🙂 Please stop 🙂

#haes #healthateverysize #antidiet #ChristyHarrison #weightstigma #fatphobia

RT @dr_katschneider
Super excited to be presenting today at the #WhatsWeightGotToDoWithIt seminar series for #EatingDisorderAwarenessWeek 🙌🏻👏🏻

I am kicking off this week with a talk on #WeightStigma & #BingeEatingDisorder.

The event is free to attend, register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/whats-weight-got-to-do-with-it-weight-stigma-and-eating-disorders-seminar-tickets-523980418537

This belief is instilled in us from the time we are children

So backwards

Our bodies are magical and amazing

They allow us to LIVE - to experience being human

It’s past time to change the narrative

#allbodiesarebeautiful #eatingdisorders #haes #weightstigma

Let’s be clear

The @AmerAcadPeds would rather have dead or miserable kids than fat kids

#weightstigma #eatingdisorders

Kudos to researchers from the UConn Rudd Center for Food Policy and Health for great new research describing the #causal link between #WeightStigma and #Cardiometabolic #health.
https://conscienhealth.org/2023/01/adding-stigma-to-obesity-and-heart-disease/

🙅‍♀️🙅‍♀️🙅‍♀️Body Mass Index (BMI) report cards cause harm for kids of ALL body sizes🙅‍♀️🙅‍♀️🙅‍♀️

If your kids’ school practices these reports- don’t stay silent

There is too much at risk

#eatingdisorders #weightstigma

Listen.

Fat kids do not need to be told to not be fat.

They need to be loved & supported just like thin kids.

They don’t need their doctors judging them & blaming their bodies for things outside of their control.

#done #weightstigma

Just finished @yrfatfriend book what we don’t talk about when we talk about fat & oh my god it is a life changer

I highly highly recommend EVERYONE reads it

A few excerpts that hit me hard

#weightstigma #eatingdisorders

I am up to my ears in #weightstigma

If you read nothing else on twitter today read this & reflect 👇
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RT @heysharonmaxwel
When I was a kid, my parents did everything in their power to make me not fat. If the @AmerAcadPeds had released these harmful guidelines in the 90s, I likely would have an amputated stomach right now.
https://twitter.com/heysharonmaxwel/status/1613000405511966720

Hey, CNN. Please stop throwing people trying to cope with #obesity under the bus. Perhaps it's unintentional, but you're promoting #WeightStigma. That's wrong. Please stop.
https://conscienhealth.org/2022/12/throwing-people-with-obesity-under-the-bus/