Resources
Below are links to the surgery-specific offerings we recommend.
Looking for anti-diet resources? Keep scrolling!
Articles
The Inconvenient Truth About Weight Loss Surgery by Ragen Chastain
Fat People and Joint Pain by Ragen Chastain
Things They Don’t Tell You Before WLS by Juliet James (requires a Medium account)
Stop Touting Weight Loss Surgeries as a Miracle Cure by Peggy Howell (TW: website has links and advertisements for diets)
“But Everything is Supposed to Get Better After Weight Loss Surgery!” by Alexis Conason, PsyD and Lisa DuBrueil, LICSW
Podcasts
Food Psych
Episode 139: The Truth about Weight-Loss-Surgery and “Food Addiction” with Lisa DuBreuil, Health at Every Size Social Worker
Episode 176: Confessions of a Former Weight-Loss-Surgery Dietitian with Vincci Tsui, Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor
Episode 235: COVID-19 and Scarcity Mentality, and the Truth about Weight-Loss-Surgery with Juliet James, Writer and Fat-Liberation Activist
Episode 262: Responding to Diet Talk, Navigating the Stages of Change, and HAES in Spanish-Speaking Communities with Haica Rosenfeld
“Eating-disorders therapist Haica Rosenfeld joins us to discuss how her father’s binge eating and bariatric surgery affected her own relationship with food and body…”
Mariana den Hollander
Website: http://www.marianadenhollander.com/
Author of the books The Heaviest Weight and The Heaviest Surgery
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marianadenhollander_libros/
Ragen Chastain
Website: https://weightandhealthcare.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ragenchastain/
Dietitians Unplugged
Episode 65 - What You Should Know About Weight Loss Surgery with Lisa DuBreuil, LICSW
Aaron and Glenys welcome Lisa DuBreuil, LICSW to the podcast to discuss how she works with people who are considering weight loss surgery, or who have already had it. She talks about what the medical community isn't doing well when preparing people for bariatric surgery, the possible long-term consequences, and how the HAES® principles can help in building good self-care after surgery.
People
Curious about alternatives to diet culture?
Clients often ask, “if diets and surgery don’t work, what do I do instead?”
It’s not easy to fight weight-normative practices and beliefs, but it is possible, and the research demonstrates that a weight-inclusive approach can have huge health and mental benefits for people who have struggled with their weight. Here’s some of our favorite resources for learning about weight inclusivity:
Association for Size Diversity and Health
Healthcare Provider Database: https://asdah.org/listing/
Medical Students for Size Inclusivity
The Association for Weight and Size Inclusive Medicine
Virginia Sole-Smith
Website: https://virginiasolesmith.com/
Author of the books The Eating Instinct and Fat Talk: Parenting in the age of diet culture
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/v_solesmith
Harriet Brown
Author of the books Body of Truth: How Science, History, and Culture Drive Our Obsession with Weight - and What We Can Do About It, Brave Girl Eating: A Family’s Struggle with Anorexia, and Feed Me: Writers Dish About Food, Eating, Weight, and Body Image
Sonya Renee Taylor
Author of The Body is Not an Apology and The Body is Not an Apology Workbook
Website: https://www.sonyareneetaylor.com/
Marci Evans, RD
Website: https://marcird.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marcird/
Vincci Tsui, RD
Author of The Mindful Eating Workbook
Website: https://www.vinccitsui.com/
Positive Body Image Project
The Body Positive
Website: https://thebodypositive.org/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebodypositive/
Aubrey Gordon
Author of “You Just Need to Lose Weight” and 19 Other Myths About Fat People and What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat
Website: https://www.aubreygordon.net/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yrfatfriend/
Maintenance Phase
By Aubrey Gordon and Michael Hobbes
Website: https://www.maintenancephase.com/
Christy Harrison
Author of Anti-Diet and The Wellness Trap
Podcast Host of Food Psych: https://christyharrison.com/foodpsych
Website: https://christyharrison.com/
Dietitians Unplugged
Food Psych
Center for Body Trust
Website: https://centerforbodytrust.com/
Whitney Trotter, RD
Website: https://whitneytrotter.com/
Evelyn Tribole, RD
Co-Author of Intuitive Eating and The Intuitive Eating Workbook
Website: https://www.evelyntribole.com/
Eating Disorder Hope
Website: https://www.eatingdisorderhope.com/
Alliance for Eating Disorders
Podcasts
People
Organizations
Other Useful Resources
Health at Every Size Health Sheets
Weight Neutral Providers Lead List
Christy Harrison’s HAES, Anti-Diet, Intuitive Eating Providers Eating Disorder Recovery List