But, you’re probably thinking, why bother if the HAES group didn’t lose weight? Because what’s really important here, as I’ve tried to show you throughout this book, isn’t some nebulous number on the scale; it’s coming to the same conclusions the HAES women arrived at: that weight loss just isn’t as important as they thought. These women discovered that their focus on weight loss had hidden their real quest: a desire to feel better about themselves, to have more vitality and good health, to feel attractive for themselves, not for anyone else. Once they dropped the weight-loss focus, that’s
...more
