How to Find Your Own Path Between Diet and Anti-Diet Extremes, with Elizabeth Hall

<p dir="ltr">A few years back, when I took a dramatic turn from helping clients with weight loss to embracing Intuitive Eating and Health at Every Size, I went head-first into anti-diet culture.  </p> <p dir="ltr">I mean head....first....</p> <p dir="ltr">I was emphatic about how weight loss cannot and should not <em>ever</em> be the goal.  I informed potential clients that I was not going to focus on weight loss.  And I told my current clients that we were shifting gears because what we were doing was harmful.</p> <p dir="ltr">And yes, I still believe in all of that.</p> <p dir="ltr" data-redactor-style-cache="text-align: center;"> <span data-redactor-span="true" data-redactor-style-cache= "color: rgb(88, 70, 102);"><strong>But...</strong></span><span data-redactor-span="true" data-redactor-style-cache= "color: rgb(88, 70, 102);"><strong><br /></strong></span></p> <p dir="ltr"><span data-redactor-span="true" data-redactor-style-cache="color: rgb(88, 70, 102);"><strong>What I wasn't realizing was that I was just as extreme on the anti-diet side as those who were on the diet side. </strong></span> </p> <p dir="ltr">I was just as emphatic about <em>not</em> focusing on weight loss as they were about promoting It.  I was citing research that supported my view while criticizing them for doing the same.  I thought of them as being one-sided and myopic while I was doing the exact same thing.</p> <p dir="ltr">And you know what?  Being that extreme on the anti-diet side didn't work.  Yes, they made huge strides in their relationships with food.  They weren't bingeing, their emotional eating had significantly declined, and they were feeling much more at peace with food.</p> <p dir="ltr">But they were still uncomfortable in their bodies, both physically and emotionally.  For many of my clients, it was hard to move, hard to walk, hard to be intimate with their partners.  I heard a lot of clients say, "I just don't <em>feel </em>good."  </p> <p dir="ltr">That's totally valid.  And for me to say "well, the research between we