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HAES providers (doctors, therapists, dietitians)

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Good foods vs bad foods. Learning about foods that are good to eat and bad to eat and then getting a school lunch that is full of the “bad foods”

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Something helpful: In Japanese culture, there is a saying which basically translates to the benefits of eating when 80% full.

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Harmful - going through a eating disorder and being showered with praise for my bodies drastic change

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Helpful: Sonya Renee Taylor and radical self-love

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Learning about the history of BMI

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Growing up being told that I was strong (as a female this was quite empowering) and celebrated for it

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Had a teacher who called food “brain power” and made me think about the connection between my mind and food.

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I had a lot of body privilege and was very thin as a teenager. Many people told me that I must be anorexic. I felt a lot of shame for being so thin and desperately wanted to be curvier and heavier. This was helpful for me to see that no one can be satisfied with their bodies in our world

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Helpful - viewing food as a way to build strong connection to place or people

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The concepts of nourishment and intuitive eating becoming more commonplace 

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The concepts of nourishment and intuitive eating becoming more commonplace 

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Helpful - my mom never spoke about her body negatively in front of me. I didn’t know people did that until late middle school when everyone was comparing their thighs

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My grandma used to call my sister "Twiggy". This was an obvious compliment.

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Helpful: reading What We Don’t Talk About When we Talk About Fat

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Helpful: reading What We Don’t Talk About When we Talk About Fat

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Being told to eat a sandwich

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Helpful-I like to box. So learning to think about food as a way in which to fuel my body and increase strength.

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Helpful: doing my own healing work as I completed my RD program

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The idea of looking at your body as the only one we have and that we should listen to your body.

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Feeling good about losing weight even when it came as a result of a mental health crisis

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My mom telling me when I was 10 “you’re not skinny anymore” with a frown on her face

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The main main education I received around dieting was from my mother, who was always bringing me into her fad diets, applying her food rules to me, and then getting upset when I mirrored her bingeing behavior.

I was left with a mindset that I had to find a system and set of strict rules order to be healthy, and that if I ever lost control or indulged I was being universally unhealthy.

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Books like intuitive eating and concepts like health at every size

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As a teenager, bloated and on my period, my mom asked "does your stomach always look like that?!"

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we grew up poor and really celebrated having food to eat in general. we generally appreciated food as fuel and ate whatever we had, which i think served me well. 

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we grew up poor and really celebrated having food to eat in general. we generally appreciated food as fuel and ate whatever we had, which i think served me well. 

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Everything around Intuitive Eating

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positive: my gym did a challenge this january called “back at it” and it focused on gaining strength by fueling our bodies properly. it changed my relationship with food!

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Helpful- Maintenance Phase podcast

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You can eat because you exercised

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Public weighing in PE class.

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All outfits describes as looking “flattering” on me

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A teacher told me that “I’m looking too skinny” and asked in front of my friends “Am I eating?” And I was celebrated for losing 10 pounds from my rowing coach because they wanted a smaller sized coxswain

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Using the word healthy body as a code for thin body

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I lost weight with disorder eating and was showered with compliments from all angles of life for being thinner.

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New school lunch catering at the school I work at. Some folks are unhappy with what is being served. They are highlighting specific foods as “junk” and “carcinogens” and demonizing candy. Elementary age, but this type of talk and messaging surrounding food insidious and impacts even our youngest students.

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Having weight loss commented on by others when I have been going through emotionally trying times.

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Having weight loss commented on by others when I have been going through emotionally trying times.

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The doctor growing up talking about my BMI in detail

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Helpful impact - food as a way to connect with new people and friends

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Family member celebrating that she only ate a protein shake and apple for most of the day, yet being happy that she was losing weight

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Ayurvedic teaching about the beauty and balance of different body types had been helpful in unlearning and replacing the modern Western obsession with thinness.

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My mom asking the doctor at my 12-year-old check up why I had a “pooch” for a stomach.

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Adults in my life would always say “I can’t wear that or dress that way because I’m too _____”

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Helpful: being introduced to the term diet culture

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You don’t have to finish everything on your plate. You can stop when you are full

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My mom always asking my brother if he wanted seconds or if he was still hungry but never asking my sisters.

People commenting on the food I ate and assigning moral value to the food (ie junk food v healthy or clean food)

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“I haven’t seen you in so long. You lost some weight. Congrats!”

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I was doing lifeguard training and another student asked in front of everybody if i was pregnant knowing very well i wasn’t.

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I grew up in the 90s when 'non-fat' food was going to be the savior of us all.  That has caused a lot of problems for me as an adult to develop a healthy sense of eating.

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I grew up in the 90s when 'non-fat' food was going to be the savior of us all.  That has caused a lot of problems for me as an adult to develop a healthy sense of eating.

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My mom telling me in middle school that i “wouldn’t be able to eat like that forever” when I ate a foot-long subway sandwich

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Low fat, low sugar, overall less is better. Eating “bad” foods= irresponsibility and weakness. You have poor values if you eat a certain way.

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Good thing you’re going to work off all that food at swim practice.

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my dad calling me an “idiot” for trying to measure out what a serving size of cereal actually looked like to understand how much i was actually eating

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my dad calling me an “idiot” for trying to measure out what a serving size of cereal actually looked like to understand how much i was actually eating

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“You’re so thin” (as a compliment)

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Student shared “what’s wrong with wanting to look like the status quo/societies version of beautify?” Lead to discussion about how it’s virtually impossible for some

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He looks great. So thin….

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“You probably will need to find your costume for the play somewhere else. We don’t have anything here you can wear”

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Someone eyeballing my food with judgement and no words

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Whole30 and limiting what foods are "good" and what are "bad" 

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Whole30 and limiting what foods are "good" and what are "bad" 

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I was often told as a teenager that I had “such a pretty face” but I would much more attractive if I lost weight.

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I was often told as a teenager that I had “such a pretty face” but I would much more attractive if I lost weight.

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My nickname in the early days of Boy Scouts was “round kid”

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You are going to have to be more careful when you’re older

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Plate of cookies in the faculty lounge—“I’m trying to be “good” today”

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You have an addictive personality - in response to how much of a snack I was eating

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Told to finish everything on plate even if I was already full.

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Girls are supposed to hold their stomach in

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Do you play soccer? You have husky legs.

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Feeling compelled to over eat when alone

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Watching my mom cook an amazing meal for the family, but not eat any herself.

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My coach told me I was “looking fat”

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Carbs are bad for you if you are trying to loose weight

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Carbs are bad for you if you are trying to loose weight

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“Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels”

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My 5th grade teacher praising my friend for being “so grown up” when that friend shared she was starting a new diet with her mom.

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Moment on the lips, lifetime on the lips

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My high school swim coach told me my summer goal should be to lose my “muffin top”