This is the Weight and Healthcare newsletter! If you like what you are reading, please consider subscribing and/or sharing! It’s Eating Disorder Awareness Week. There is a lot of weight stigma and anti-fatness within the eating disorders community, including in major organizations, and the
Thank you for the post! It is an eloquent summary of many of my experiences in ED treatment for “atypical” AN. Even when pre-screening residential facilities to ensure they adhere to a HAES philosophy, I have been met with a range of ignorance/abuse ranging from repeatedly being directed by staff to a BED group, to having the diagnosis code and word Ob*sity written on a form to hand deliver to an external MD appointment. At a certain point, though, being around thin folks who have the same difficulties I do just led me to more pain as looking like me was their worst nightmare.
Thankfully, after several years and some excellent outpatient providers (HAES, Body Trust), I’m progressing well in recovery! (Still fat! Lol but now not feeling worthless just because of what diet culture says!) 🤘🏼Getting deprogrammed and exposed to fat lib has helped.
So, happy Eating Disorder Awareness Week, y'all. Just as I was about to open Ragen's email, a new email popped up from the NIH. Read it and weep: https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/bariatric-surgery-provides-long-term-blood-glucose-control-type-2-diabetes-remission
A few weeks ago I was surfing through HAES and other sites and I landed on a document from Kaiser Permanente. Read it and weep: https://wa-provider.kaiserpermanente.org/static/pdf/public/guidelines/weight.pdf "Weight Management Screening and Intervention Guideline"
My PCP at Kaiser acts as if she has never read the opening weight stigma section of this document. One of these days, I am going to unload on her.
Thank you Ragen for another outstanding and informative post. I will be sharing some of this info on my Substack and socials.
Thank you for the post! It is an eloquent summary of many of my experiences in ED treatment for “atypical” AN. Even when pre-screening residential facilities to ensure they adhere to a HAES philosophy, I have been met with a range of ignorance/abuse ranging from repeatedly being directed by staff to a BED group, to having the diagnosis code and word Ob*sity written on a form to hand deliver to an external MD appointment. At a certain point, though, being around thin folks who have the same difficulties I do just led me to more pain as looking like me was their worst nightmare.
Thankfully, after several years and some excellent outpatient providers (HAES, Body Trust), I’m progressing well in recovery! (Still fat! Lol but now not feeling worthless just because of what diet culture says!) 🤘🏼Getting deprogrammed and exposed to fat lib has helped.