Why don't you offer weight loss services?
We welcome with compassionate, open arms, those who have had a long-standing desire to lose weight. We may refer to ourselves as anti-diet, but we are never "anti-dieters". We understand that we live in a fatphobic world that praises thinness at any and all costs, and yet we recognize the research shows that 95% of diets and intentional weight loss attempts fail the person pursuing them. Research has shown that within 2-5 years, most people gain weight back (often beyond their starting weight) and enter a process of "weight cycling" which is harmful to both physical and mental health.
We've read the evidence, and we've listened to our clients' experiences of losing and gaining weight and all of the stress, guilt, and shame that tend to follow. We know that countless people, world-wide have been harmed by baseless and flawed weight loss advice, and we know that intentional weight loss efforts through diet and restriction encourage eating disorder behaviors.
We recognize that many health-promoting behaviors such as eating balanced meals and participating in physical activity are often conflated with weight loss. However, given the overwhelming evidence against weight loss, itself, as an indicator of health and well-being, our practice does not offer weight loss services and will not use weight loss as a measure of success for our clients.
We want to meet you as a real human exactly where you are in the real world, and if right now, it feels like weight loss is the only way to get to where you want to be, we hope you give us the chance to show you a different way!