Weight Neutral Diabetes Care

Diabetes Care without The Scale

Why Can’t I Change My Diet?

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WN4DC Team
14 October, 2021
Why Can’t I Change My Diet? Megrette Fletcher M.Ed., RDN, CDCES You are ready to make some changes to your diet to improve your overall blood sugar levels. Congratulations for taking that step. Maybe you are thinking of cutting out carbs, eating brown rice, or swearing off dessert. Whatever...

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​How to Make Changing Easier?

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WN4DC Team
14 October, 2021
How to Make Changing Easier? Megrette Fletcher M.Ed., RDN, CDCES This 1,000-year-old question has been asked by great poets like Rumi, who wrote, “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” After working in healthcare for 30 years, I...

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​How to Learn About Diabetes in 3 Steps!

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WN4DC Team
14 October, 2021
How to Learn About Diabetes in 3 Steps! Megrette Fletcher M.Ed., RDN, CDCES You want to learn about diabetes. Congratulations, that is awesome. The question then becomes how? Where do you start, how do you begin? I am sure you have a hundred questions, which tells me you are motivated and...

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What To Change When You Have Diabetes?

14 October, 2021
What To Change When You Have Diabetes? Megrette Fletcher M.Ed., RDN, CDCES You are ready to make some changes to your diet to improve your overall blood sugar levels. Congratulations on taking the first step. Maybe you are thinking of cutting out carbs, eating brown rice, or swearing off...

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​How to Understand Diabetes Care

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WN4DC Team
14 October, 2021
How to Understand Diabetes Care Megrette Fletcher M.Ed., RDN, CDCES Whether you were told the information today or 10 years ago, understanding the ever-changing world of diabetes takes time. Our busy lives can make diabetes and learning what you need to know even more challenging. What if you...

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What are Learning Recipes?

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WN4DC Team
12 October, 2021
What Are Learning Recipes? In general, recipes are a step by step way to cook or bake. What if you had something like that to help you understand and care for your diabetes? I bet it would be helpful. You see questions guide learning - I am all about guiding versus telling, so I created...

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What Is Weight Inclusive Diabetes Care?

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Megrette Fletcher
19 September, 2021
What Is Weight Inclusive Diabetes Care? It is a way to manage pre-diabetes and diabetes that isn't weight-focused. What do I mean when I say, 'isn't weight focused'? People like you are tired of being told to 'lose weight. You’re sick of feeling like having a higher-weight body is 'wrong' or...

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What is different between Intuitive Eating and Mindful Eating?

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Megrette Fletcher
30 May, 2021
Seeing The Different Between Intuitive Eating and Mindful Eating What is different between Intuitive Eating and Mindful Eating? Author, and creator of the Intuitive Eating program Evelyn Tribole, explains, “I consider Intuitive Eating a broader philosophy…” Meaning that Intuitive Eating asks...

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Fact or Fiction? How Diet Culture Creates Confusion for People with Diabetes

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WN4DC Team
31 December, 2020
Fact or Fiction? How Diet Culture Creates Confusion for People with Diabetes Is it true? Can you spot if a 'fact' is true? Many people have a hard time distinguishing fact from fiction when it comes to diabetes. Why? They have never learned about diabetes. This lack of understanding benefits...

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Are Carbs Bad? How balanced meals can improve blood sugars!

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WN4DC Team
12 May, 2020
Are Carbs Bad? How balanced meals can improve blood sugars! Weight-neutral approach to diabetes care can help you learn about nutrition without focusing on weight, weight loss, restrictive eating, and obsessive exercise. This site offers the wisdom of weight-neutral, Health At Every Size,...

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The diabetes care professionals who write for this site have specific knowledge and training about weight neutral care. Each post explores an aspect of weight neutral diabetes care, including the benefits of a weight neutral approach, understanding weight stigma, discrimination (including size, race, or gender), disordered eating, and embracing enjoyable movement.


The information on this site is specifically about weight neutral (non-dieting, behavior focused) ways to prevent diabetes, manage diabetes, gestational diabetes or polycystic ovarian syndrome, PCOS.


All information posted honors the spirit of the health at every size, HAES movement, but like all writing, some posts may resonate deeply with you, while others don't. If a post is not in alignment (i.e.- discriminatory/fatphobic), please contact us directly.