Comments on: Awesome Childhood Obesity Guidelines Are Awesome

By: Tips Parents Can Use To Help Children Make Healthy Food Choices : Healthy Life

Tips Parents Can Use To Help Children Make Healthy Food Choices : Healthy Life — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:02:09 +0000

[...] Big Fat Deal – Awesome Childhood Obesity Guidelines… These guidelines make sense, and I love the emphasis on not stigmatizing kids or making them [...]

By: Helping Children Make Healthy Food Choices | catherine-morgan.com | How to Deal With Fussy Eaters

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 06:23:55 +0000

[...] Big Fat Deal – Awesome Childhood Obesity Guidelines… These guidelines make sense, and I love the emphasis on not stigmatizing kids or making them [...]

By: mccn

mccn — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:14:34 +0000

things like this give me hope!

By: Diana

Diana — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:17:02 +0000

LONG overdue, and I’m happy to see this. I just hope it sticks.

By: Emily

Emily — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:37:53 +0000

I’m so happy to read this today! It’s nice to have what lots of us have been saying for years published by a recognized health/eating organization. steps like these are what is going to cause real change I think, and knowing that people like us, are what encourage steps like these! I’m so happy i’m going to go eat something! ;)

By: Heidi

Heidi — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:31:10 +0000

That article almost made me cry – when I think of how much it would have reduced my issues around food as a child/teen had authority figures stuck to those guidelines instead of shame & guilt.

By: Russ Lane

Russ Lane — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:48:07 +0000

Every day you give great food for thought. Thank you! It’s about time sane ways of discussing weight loss are developed.

It’s something I’ve struggled with with my site, which is all about life post-fat pants: reconciling the then and now, loose skin, relationships changing, dealing with folks who give you grief for losing too much weight (the same that gave you grief for your weight. Coincidence? Not hardly.)

These are things all the diet ads conveniently neglect, and the oversimplification of post-weight loss (or body politics) doesn’t help anyone.

In my case, I really debate how I present these articles. I don’t want to make people afraid of losing weight any more than they should be afraid of gaining 1.2222 lbs. on one day. Especially after a big weight loss, at some point you got to stop defining yourself by your waistline and build yourself a life beyond it.

And really drawing a distinction between changing your life and the weight loss itself. It’s a riff on “losing weight doesn’t fix your life.”

Fat-acceptance/fat activism’s rhetoric and theories are really useful for me, as it helps distinguish these issues, keeps me honest and makes sure I present pre- and post- weight loss in all its complexity. Hopefully I do a good job of that, but that’s for everyone else to decide.

And it’s even better that the AED is really taking these things to heart and helping a lot of kids (even the grown up, slimmed down versions like me) in the process.

Thanks so much again!