Fat Acceptance Is the New Weight Loss
It seems that there is a new Buzz Phrase in the weight loss world - Fat Acceptance . It's going to catch on. It's going to be big. It's going to be huge because it makes it sound like being fat is OK, and if you are overweight that's exactly what you need to hear. There is only one problem with it - it isn't new. I've been teaching this to my clients for 15 years. I just never gave it a fancy title. "Fat acceptance is the idea that an overweight individual has every right to be happy and content with respect to their sense of self as well as their own body." Caroline J. Cederquist MD. What I have always taught is that you cannot lose weight while you hate your body the way it is now. Of course this is difficult for my clients because most of them end up in my consulting room because they hate the way they look and have battled their fat for years - all to no avail. I explain to them that the very first thing you need to do is to be OK with y...