Jan 25, 2021
Living in Alignment 21
Why Health doesn’t equal Weight with Florence Gillet
“The idea that we all have to be at a certain {normal }weight to be healthy is a fallacy”
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Weight and health have become one in the same in our society steeped in diet culture. But what does health really look like? and how do we separate weight from health and start to see all dimensions of health? and how in fact weight bias and weight stigma is shown to be an independent risk factor for various health issues including disordered eating, diabetes, heart disease and depression.
In today’s episode we are going to learn from our guest expert Florence Gillet the issue with weight equaling health and delve into the topic of dieting, weight bias and health spectrum. Florence is a size inclusive certified eating psychology coach and a body image expert. She helps chronic dieters and disordered eaters reclaim their freedom of body and mind in order to transform their lives by nurturing self-acceptance. She does this by using her experience as a former disordered eater, her knowledge of the Health at Every Size principles as well as by sharing vital resources online and through her blog. She also works in partnership with Dr Nicola Rinaldi (Author of ‘No Period, Now What?’) to help women with Hypothalamic Amenorrhea restoring their hormonal cycles and regaining their fertility naturally. She is an active volunteer for the Middle East Eating Disorder Association.
“The weight loss industry globally estimated by 2023 to reach 279 billion USD.”
In this episode we discuss:
Florence Recovery journey with disordered eating and body image
BMI and Health
The latest research about weight and health
Health spectrum and dimensions of health
Body mechanism to protect us against Famine
The two long terms effects of Dieting
The weight bias and weight stigma strong effect on the physical body
Health at every size principles
Non-weight centric Doctors
The focus on healthy “behaviors” and not the weight
The impact of eating for pleasure
Where can people start to shift the conversation
“People living in larger bodies suffer more from the weight bias and weight stigma than actually the issues they have because of their weight”
“Research shown that when people eat the most perfect diet but they don’t get pleasure from it, they actually absorb less nutrients from their food than people who eat food with pleasure ”