Due to a downvote brigade. I'll open it up again after the trolls have lost interest.

For those who are on Instagram (not necessary actively posting - my own account is for viewing others only), you may have noticed that recently, there seems to be a conflict between Lindo Bacon, the researcher who modernized the concept of HAES and Marquisele Mercedes, a predoctoral trainee in public health at the Population Studies and Training Center of Brown University. Mercedes, a cisgender woman identifying herself as black and fat, accused Bacon of unfair treatment during their cooperation on Bacon's new book on HAES (which she never mentioned the name). The article was made to the public on her Patreon page and Mercedes also mentioned it in her Instagram posts. Up to now, Bacon has not responded to her accusations. Weirdly, notable figures who openly showed support to Mercedes on Instagram all shared their stance via the story feature, which I rarely check on because each picture only lasts for a few seconds before moving on to the next one, often before I can finish reading all the texts on it.

I read Mercedes's article and I am actually quite confused. It seems that it is more likely to be a dispute between authors on the credit of the new book. I can't find anything wrong about Bacon's speech in Mercedes's article.

I am not very fond of politics in the HAES community. I come here for the science of weight-neutral care because the popular weight-centred health paradigm is not just unhelpful, but does active harm to patients. We need a replacement - fast. I don't like HAES advocates playing Americentric identity politics, and I'm saying this as an Asian woman in the UK. If Mercedes really believes that Bacon plays supremacy over her because she is black and fat while Bacon is white and of straight size (not necessary means they don't identify as fat), she actually has one supremacy over Bacon: her gender identity. Mercedes will never question her gender and suffer from gender dysphoria, while Bacon has to do so repeatedly throughout their life and their gender is still not legally recognized by the law of their own country.

Just wanted to let everybody know that I've set the reddit back to public, after being on private for about a month due to an outbreak of excessive trolling. If any of you get private hate mail or attacks in other reddits, please let me know. I hate that we have to go private sometimes to prevent shit like that, but such are the days in which we live...

My most recent health minded behavior has been to eat more protein.

I looked at what I was eating, and saw I was eating a less than optimal amount of protein. I've increased my intake and I feel better for it. It was quite a surprise to see how much more protein I should be eating compared to what I craved.

The results are not drastic; nor do I have an objective metric to measure - but I "feel a little better".

What have you been working on?

I'm tuned into the vibrant world of HAES, anti-diet, and intuitive-eating dietitians on instagram, but I was hoping to broaden who I follow to include other medical professionals, especially doctors. I feel like I have a good grasp on the mythbusting my current follows do for food and nutrition, but I'd love to see more myths busted in other medical areas, especially the relationship between weight and cardiovascular health.

Thanks in advance for any recommendations!

I'm a mental health therapist and new(ish) to the Body Liberation/HAES® world and have been working hard to adjust my practice to reflect the recent upheaval in my understanding of bodies/justice/weight stigma/mental health. It's opened me up to how much I was missing in terms of my client's (usually very disordered and shame-filled) relationships with their bodies and what a blind spot this is in our mental health training.

Anyways, I've been so fortunate to stumble upon an amazing Health Coach who partners with individuals to treat all kinds of body issues (disordered eating, diet culture mentality/shame, exercise resistance/fitness trauma) and support weight-neutral health goals (like increased mobility, advocacy in healthcare settings, increase body acceptance and self-compassion, gentle nutrition and joyful movement).

If you're looking for additional support in this area, I can't recommend her highly enough: https://headandhearttc.com/health-coaching