The Beginner’s Guide to Health At Every Size®
If you're just dipping your toe into the Health At Every Size® and Intuitive Eating pool, it can be really overwhelming with all the information floating around out there. Plenty of sources will continue to push a fatphobic agenda or attempt to discredit fat liberation, especially those claiming to be body-affirming but are really just diet culture in disguise. To help you wade into these waters, here is a list of trusted resources to help you get a little more comfortable before diving into the deep end.
DISCLAIMER: This is literally the tip of the iceberg and these are just about learning the basics. Stay tuned for other posts that delve more deeply into the body liberation movement.
+ Books
Body Respect: What Conventional Health Books Get Wrong, Leave Out, and Just Plain Fail to Understand about Weight by Lindo (formerly Linda) Bacon, Lucy Aphramor
Intuitive Eating (3rd edition)--A Revolutionary Anti-Diet Approach by Evelyn Tribole & Elyse Resch
Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating by Christy Harrison
The Body Is Not An Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love (2nd ed.) by Sonya Renee Taylor
+ Workbooks
Your Body Is Not An Apology Workbook
The Intuitive Eating Workbook: Ten Principles for Nourishing a Healthy Relationship with Food
+ Podcasts
Food Psych with Christy Harrison
Rebel Eaters Club with Virgie Tovar
Dieticians Unplugged with Aaron Flores and Glenys Oyston
+ Websites
Association for Size Diversity and Health (ASDAH)
+ Videos
+ Social Media Infulencers
Find these influencers on most of the major social media platforms.
Be Nourished
Virgie Tovar
Gloria Lucas (Nalgona Positivity Pride)
The Militant Baker
The Body Is Not An Apology
Lindo Bacon
Lucy Aphramor
Decolonizing Fitness
Association for Size Diversity and Health
Dances with Fat
Isabel Foxen Duke