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Many have been taught to believe that a smaller body is a more valuable body. We have been taught for decades that diets are the answer to your health problems. Both statements are false. We promise not to dress up our health program with empty anti-diet rhetoric only to bait and switch you into a low-calorie, body-starvation system that leads to poor mental health and maladaptive harmful behaviors. According to U.S. News and World Report, the average doctor spends only 19.6 hours learning about nutrition in eight years of study. Therefore, many overweight people find little help or sympathy from their trusted medical professionals. We advocate investing in a licensed dietician in order to personalize a nutrition plan for your specific needs and professional therapy rather than using food as a coping mechanism. 

The American culture of unsustainable dieting and counting calories almost always leads to eating disorders. Using the scale for a measurement of success leads to maladaptive behaviors that are not normal and not healthy. They are very harmful. The psychological stress of starving your body and fighting your mind for control of your eating habits will make life miserable. Instead, we will teach you to listen to your body. A happy person full of light and peace will have better success over their health than a person who is stressed out with overly aggressive expectations. Energy and mood are affected by your body‘s response to hunger. Starvation diets not only fail but they can do permanent damage.

There are two scientific principles that go counterculture with fad dieting and counting calories including Keto, Adkins, Paleo, Mediterranean, and Noom. The first principle is the fact that the relationship between your weight and your overall health is unclear. There are healthy fat people and unhealthy skinny people. An abundance of research suggests that it is far more complex of an issue than simply using a scale or BMI (Body Mass Index) guidelines. 

The second principle is that diets don’t work. The scientific community has known this for over fifty years, but the fitness industry is too large to fail, so diets are insanely and continuously perpetuated onto the unsuspecting public with less than a 5% success rate after five years.

Several interesting studies have shown that our understanding of obesity has been myopic. The Journal of the American Medical Association found in 2013 that those with lower grades of obesity were not associated with a higher mortality rate. People who were moderately overweight actually had a significantly lower mortality rate. In 2014 it was discovered that overweight and even obese people who exercised had similar mortality risks as normal weighted people. Regardless of BMI, those who didn’t exercise at all had twice the mortality risk. It’s always worth noting that the standards for BMI were based entirely on the average height and weight of European men. The CDC adopted their BMI standards in 1998 on the advice of a private organization whose top donors were pharmaceutical companies making diet pills.

 So we believe in being positive, happy, accepted, and loved despite what other people may think. Body positivity is not saying that unhealthy habits are good. Body positivity is accepting who you are as a person. It is not allowing people to devalue you because of how you look. It is giving you a foundation of value and validation so that you can grow as a person without feeling oppressed by the expectations of others. 

We will change your toxic relationship with food by teaching you to use it for fuel instead of an unhealthy coping mechanism. We will give you a new, healthy, balanced understanding of your beautiful, unique, and complex body. Health starts with the word “heal.” That is the first step of any health program, and it all starts with two words: Starting TODAY.