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4 Ways to Make Your Next Visit With Your Health Care Provider More Pleasant

When it comes to activities that trigger a stress response, almost NOTHING competes with a visit with your health care provider. Between the clinical, sterile settings, the fear of the scale, the potential for needles poking and prodding, and often uncomfortable conversations – it makes sense! This is especially true for folks in larger bodies, which are often automatically viewed as “unhealthy” in the eyes of health care practitioners, long before they even have any knowledge of the individual past their size.

While stigma, ... 

Yep, you read that title right – you are the expert on your body. Did you know that? Because if you’re anything like me, most of the time I don’t feel like an expert on much of anything. That includes this vessel that carries me around and frequently feels and does things I can’t explain.

But, as much as it may be a mystery, nobody knows your body better than YOU.

That includes:

• your doctor
• your mom
• your dad
• your best friend
• your personal trainer
• your nosy aunt
• your next-door neighbor
• internet friends
• well-meaning internet strangers and ESPECIALLY
• abusive internet strangers

Now, we’ll discuss some of the many ways to address online trolling and bullying in another blog post, but realizing the opinions of strangers ... 

First things first, about that title. I know I called it 6 Tips for Living in a Fat Body, BUT these can honestly help anyone who wants to have a better relationship with their own body, fat or not.

All of these little tidbits of info are based on my actual, real life experience as a fat person. And if you’re new here, we don’t treat “fat” as a bad word, because fat isn’t bad! It’s a descriptor. At its worst, it’s neutral, and at its best, it’s wonderful.

Ready to get down to it? Keep reading!

1. Ditch the scale

If you’ve ...