What Healthy Weight Week Means to Me
Posted on January 22, 2014 by Dr. Deah
Hello again! Wow, two blogs in one week? That is unheard of! I am sorry to be taking up too much of your time but I figure you can always just delete this from your inbox if you are feeling too inundated by Dr. Deah notifications! And this will be quick, albeit, a tad interactive. In other words: WE NEED YOU!!! I have been recognized by the new steward of Healthy Weight Week (Francie Berg handed over the baton after creating HWW 20+ years ago) as being one of the top 35 bloggers with a message that is emphatically about Self/Size Acceptance and promotes the HAES® tenets. I am so honored by this especially when I looked at the other 34 award winners and saw what esteemed company I am now a part of. Also grand is that the Healthy Weight Week tradition will continue into the next 20 + years! When I received the email letting me know I had received the award, I was asked to write a short piece on what healthy weight means to me…ahhhh there’s always a catch!!! (Normally I would tangent off right now into the sports arena of Dwight Clark and the amazing “catch” except I am still
“I was good!”And that is something that I believe is problematic. Diets, plain and simple, do not result in long term weight loss for the majority of people. Obsessing over weight and eating is a sure fire way to develop disordered eating patterns and spend your life in a morass of self-loathing. Diets Just Do Not Work for most people long term. There is no weigh that this is a healthy weigh to live your life. So I have to agree that it may be time to change the name of HWW to one that is more congruent with the principles it promotes. Something more size positive, self-accepting, non weight centric. Something that does not keep the scale center stage, if only linguistically, and that does not imply that there is one healthy weight for everyone to aspire to. I am wondering if any of you have any suggestions? Being the Pastafarian that I am, I am going to noodle on this and perhaps before next year’s HWW we can focus on the focus of the week and not on the name itself. Til Next Time, Dr. Deah P.S. In honor of Healthy Weight Week, this week only, if you order any of my books from my website you will receive your choice of either a bumper sticker or refrigerator magnet, FREE, with the sassy slogan, My only weight problem is YOUR problem with My weight." CLICK HERE to start shopping!





I love the phrase ” your body is not a battleground”
Be kind to yourself
Friends don’t let friends fat talk….this one has a lot of advertising potential
Thanks for all your great blogs and positivivity.
Also one thing I remember a client telling me that really helped her were three simple words IT DOESN’T MATTER, something her dietitian told her often. I could often joke with her about this her when things were really rough. So there you have it….my not creative or original ideas on changing healthy weight week…because weight and deciding the mood of the day by a number, well, it just doesn’t matter!
Thank you Holly for taking the time to write! And your insights are spot on!
Warmly, Dr. Deah
this is such great information and right on for putting it out there. ive found this website to be the very best for weight loss and so have so many of my friends!!
shorturl.at/weightloss
thank you