Coming from a traditional healthcare training model, I used to practice diet culture without even realising it—prescribing meal plans, food tracking, and portion control that only led clients to blame themselves when things fell apart. But it wasn’t their fault. It was the rules that failed them.

Anti-diet means letting go of control as identity—and taking back the time, energy, and headspace diet culture stole. When food loses its moral labels, there’s no guilt, no forbidden pull, and no “healthy” foods that feel like punishment—just freedom to eat, explore, and enjoy.

Your weight, BMI, or body shape don’t define your health, worth, or attractiveness.

Accepting a weight-neutral lens—both personally and professionally—was tough, but it made everything click: restriction fuels bingeing. And there’s no truly non-restrictive way to lose weight.

Trying to heal your relationship with food and body to stop bingeing while chasing weight loss is like building trust with someone who keeps criticising you—it just doesn’t work.

 Healing starts with safety and autonomy. But how can you feel safe when your identity is judged or erased—by society, health professionals, or diet culture?

When your doctor blames everything on your weight.

When influencers shame you for eating carbs.

When you grow up never seeing your body type, skin colour, sexuality and gender identity—or culture—being honoured.

How are you supposed to trust your body, when the world keeps telling you are in a wrong body?

When you don’t feel safe in your body or around food, you fight it, rebel, shut down—or try to fit in. That’s how food and body struggles take over.

That’s why it’s not a nice to have, but essential in my practice to creating a space where all parts of you are welcomed and respected, so you can rebuild trust with food and body on your terms.

 A growing body of evidence shows that weight and BMI are poor predictors of health—and that it’s not weight loss itself, but health-promoting behaviours that lead to real, lasting improvements.

Health at Every Size throws out the shame-based, weight-centric approach and invites us to focus on what actually supports wellbeing—no matter your size. It’s a framework built on 5 core principles:

1. Weight inclusivity – accepting and respecting body diversity, instead of trying to shrink it.

2. Health enhancement – supporting health policies and practices that improve access to care for all bodies.

3. Respectful care – challenging weight stigma, bias, and discrimination in healthcare.

4. Eating for well-being – promoting flexible, attuned eating based on hunger, satiety, and satisfaction—not rigid rules.

5. Life-enhancing movement – encouraging enjoyable, sustainable movement that feels good, rather than punishing workouts.

When weight is no longer the goal, health becomes something you can build on your own terms—with freedom, compassion, and trust in your body.