Sonoma County Health At Every Size®

Healthy is a Lifestyle, Not a Body Size!

Cindy

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58 years old
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I was born and raised in Sonoma County and love it here. I have worked for the County of Sonoma for 21 years, am a Commissioner on the Sonoma County Commission on the Status of Women, have 3 adult children and 4 beautiful grandchildren.

I support Health at Every Size and the principles--I am a recovered bulimic and know how difficult it is to be happy at any size. I still struggle with body image and find it difficult to step on a scale--which every doctor visit insists we must do even though I tell them it creates anxiety and panic for me. I have two granddaughters and two grandsons and I want them to grow up being happy with who they are at any size. I am happy to endorse this sight!

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Reply SoCoHAES®
11:43 PM on July 12, 2012 
Thank you so much, Cindy, for sharing your story and for endorsing the HAES Principles (r) and this site. Your story is an important and powerful one. I hope that doctors visiting this site will read it and learn from your important message about the scale, and about HAES. Because doctors weighing me is a huge issue for me, too (so many doctors use it as a gateway to talking to me--ignorantly--about my weight/size). Weight should only be taken on an "as needed" basis, not routinely, and only AFTER taking the client's blood pressure, to avoid getting a false-high reading and then doing harm by medicating the client needlessly for blood pressure.

Doctors do not have even one college nutrition course required for their med school training--they're told to refer clients to registered dietitians--and then the doctors are told to tell people how to lose weight: to intervene in clients' eating and exercise patterns. This can cause terrible problems because 1) they don't have the education to do so and 2) they aren't being taught they don't have the education to do so, and can cause terrible harm.

Bottom line, I really appreciate your comment, story, and support re: doctors' automatically weighing every client. They need to ditch that automatic practice.

So glad you are on the SoCoHAES site, Cindy. Per your permission, I'm posting your bio in the HAES Principles endorsement section - thank you. Let me know if you want any part of it deleted there.
Reply SoCoHAES®
8:21 AM on April 6, 2012 
Welcome, Cindy! I'm so glad you are on this site, and thank you for your endorsement of the HAES principles, and your beautiful and poignant testimonial of why you support HAES. It's wonderful to have you here, and I hope you will feel free to post to topics or start a new one. May I post your bio in the "Endorse the HAES Principles" section on the Forum as well, please?

Thanks again, and welcome!