When your provider won’t stop talking about weight, it can feel frustrating, dismissive, and exhausting—especially during pregnancy. You come in with real symptoms, real questions, and real needs, yet the conversation keeps circling back to BMI and the scale. This post breaks down why weight becomes such a fixation in prenatal care, how that focus can cause real harm, and—most importantly—what you can say to redirect the conversation and protect your right to respectful, evidence-based care. You are not obligated to justify your body to receive good medical support.
Center for Body Trust Takes a Stand: Today, we delve into a critical issue that has recently come to the forefront of the news in early January of 2023 – the American Academy of Pediatricians (AAP) and their controversial guidelines on weight loss for children. We’ll do a quick review of the AAP guidelines but many great fat activities and body liberation folks have responded to the original AAP guidelines, you can check those out at the end of the blog. What we’re diving into today is the response from The Center for Body Trust and their stance against these guidelines.
Diet Culture is the system of beliefs that values weight, shape, and size over health and well-being. It worships thinness and provides, and unachievable goal based in an unrealistic standard.
