Can you really be healthy at every size?

CAN YOU R EALLY Be Healthy at Every Size ? You've probably tried lots of diets only to gain weight back. This has most likely left you feeling like a failure and wondering what you're doing wrong. The reality is diets fail us far more than we fail them. $60 spent annually SLIM on diet products BILLION in the U.S. 95% of people who go on a diet gain the TTTT weight back Not only are diets ineffective at sustained weight-loss, they dont help our health. According to research from Repeatedly losing and the UCLA, dieting is a gaining weight is correlated consistent predictor of with cardiovascular disease, future weight gain. stroke, diabetes, and altered DIET PILLS immune function. The National Institutes of Health had to end their dieting study prematurely because it found no differences in cardiovascular health between participants in a strict diet and exercise program and those in a control group. So what is true about weight and health? In a study of 1.7 million Norwegians the highest life expectancy was among individuals who were overweight. Most of the evidence suggests that being POUNDS UNDERWEIGHT Obese individuals who are fit have a death rate one half is more dangerous that of normal-weight than being people who are not fit. 75 POUNDS OVERWEIGHT So what's the key to being healthy at every size? DO BODY IMAGE WORK STOP RESTRICTING If you stop hating your body you According to the National Eating won't have the need to adhere Disorder Association, you are 12 times to ineffective diets. more likely to binge if you diet. FIGHT SIZE DISCRIMINATION Share the truth about weight, diets, and health. Regardless of your size or health no one has the right to mistreat you. Go me PRACTICE SELF-COMPASSION ENGAGE PLEASURABLE EXERCISE An increase in self-compassion has People who live longer are physically active, been linked with a decrease in eating independent of body size. People with large disordered symptoms. bodies who exercise on a regular basis live longer than thin people who don't. SEEK OUT SUPPORT You are not alone. Go to www.abbyshoward.com for more resources and support. SOURCES: 1. PRWeb. (Dec. 13, 2012). "U.S. Weight Loss Market Forecast to Hit $66 Billion in 2013." http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/12/prweb10278281.htm. 2. Grodstein, F., Levine, R., Spencer, T., Colditz, G. A., &Stampfer, M. J. (1996). Three-year follow-up of participants in a commercial weight loss program: Can you keep it off? Archives of Internal Medicine 156(12), 1302. 3. Wolpert, S. (April 3, 2007). "Dieting Does Not Work UCLA Researchers Report" UCLA Newsroom. Retrieved from: http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/Dieting-Does-Not-Work-UCLA-Researchers-7832 4. Wolpert, S. (April 3, 2007). "Dieting Does Not Work UCLA Researchers Report" UCLA Newsroom. Retrieved from: http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/Dieting-Does-Not-Work-UCLA-Researchers-7832 5. Tomiyama, A., Ahlstrom, B., & Mann, T. (February 6, 2013). "Is Dieting Worth the Trouble?" Huffington Post Healthy Living. Retrieved from: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/a-janet-tomiyama/does-dieting-work_b_2253565.html 6. Waaler, Hans T., "Height and Weight and Mortality: The Norwegian Experience," Acta Medica Scandinavica Supplemantum 679 (1984): 1-56. 7. Flegal, KM, Graubard, BI, Williamson, DF, Gail, MF (2007).Cause-specific excess deaths associated with underweight, overweight, and obesity. JAMA, 298(17), 2028-3037. 8. Campos, P (2004). The Obesity Myth. New York: Gotham Books. 9. Katz, Mandy. (July 15, 2009). "Tossing out the Diet and Embracing the Fat." The New York Times. http://www.ny.times.com/2009/07/16/health/nutrition/16skin.html?_r=0 10. Neumark-Sztainer, D. (2005). I'm, Like, SO Fat!.New York: Guilford. 11. Katz, Mandy. (July 15, 2009). "Tossing out the Diet and Embracing the Fat." The New York Times. http://www.ny.times.com/2009/07/16/health/nutrition/16skin.html?_r=0 12. Kelly, A., Carter, J., and Borairi, D. (2014). Are Improvements in Shame and Self-Compassion Early in Eating Disorders Treatment Associated with Better Patient Outcomes? International Journal of Eating Disorders 47(1) 54-64