Even More ReVolutions

Diets usually start the day after New Years. There is still leftover "bad food" in the fridge and you didn't actually stop drinking after midnight and have a salad? Right?

When I did Weight Watchers, no one dieted during the holiday season so it was only a handful of us at the meetings. Come January the place would overflow sometimes to standing room only. WW was supposed to be a lifelong lifestyle change yet very few people seemed to do this during the holidays. So what they meant by a lifelong lifestyle change was only January to September.

The difference between Health At Every Size (HAES) and Weight Watchers (and most diets) is this: I do HAES every day during the holidays, after the holidays, on my birthday and I do it for my health NOT for weight loss. On Weight Watchers, cheating meant the diet was over maybe just for the day or the week or for good.  It also could mean a massive binge. There is no cheating on HAES. HAES has led to less binging. WW and diets involve restrictive eating, meaning you restrict the amount of food you eat causing your body to crave food. HAES what's called intuitive eating meaning you eat because you're hungry. Did I overinduldge during the holidays? Yep. But compared to my dieting/bingeing days, it was nothing.

Healthy Weight Week celebrates the diversity of healthy weight (and not the narrow BMI chart) and every year announces the worst diet products of the year.