{"id":492504,"date":"2010-03-31T03:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T07:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/03\/31\/be-healthy-at-any-size-and-stop-worrying-about-the-scale\/"},"modified":"2010-03-31T03:45:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T07:45:00","slug":"be-healthy-at-any-size-and-stop-worrying-about-the-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/492504","title":{"rendered":"Be Healthy at Any Size (and Stop Worrying About the Scale)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Filed under: Health<\/a>, Fitness<\/a>, Healthy Eating<\/a>, How to Be Happy<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\"\" Are you sicking of weight loss slogans and miracle diets and are convinced that living a healthy life means more than a number on the scale? Well, <\/span>Dr. Linda Bacon<\/a>, author of <\/span>Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight<\/span><\/a>, agrees. Here, Dr. Bacon explains why we should shift the emphasis from a preoccupation with weight to adopting healthier habits – no matter your size.<\/span><\/p>\n

Q: What is the purpose of the Health at Every Size movement?<\/span><\/p>\n

A: In general, we’re finding that people are preoccupied with food and weight, and there’s a lot of fat bashing going on. People seem to harbour this idea that there’s something wrong with being heavier and, if they’re not there already, they’re really scared of being there. It’s not helpful in getting people to adopt healthy lifestyle behaviours. We’re trying to get people to transform the paradigm and we want to encourage everyone to start from a place of appreciating their body, which will allow them to take better care of their body by making good health choices.<\/p>\n

Q: Do you believe that you can be both healthy and overweight?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Filed under: Health, Fitness, Healthy Eating, How to Be Happy Are you sicking of weight loss slogans and miracle diets and are convinced that living a healthy life means more than a number on the scale? Well, Dr. Linda Bacon, author of Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight, agrees. Here, Dr. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-492504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}