Weight Neutral Diabetes Care

Diabetes Care without The Scale

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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Will Dieting Make Diabetes Go Away?

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WN4DC Team
12 May, 2020
If you googled this question, you might think it did, but these articles failed to explain that diabetes is a chronic condition that you manage, not cure. To learn more about the basic of diabetes (type 2) the Joslin Diabetes Center has wonderful articles, including Will Diabetes Go Away? So...

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​Five Ways A Weight Neutral Nutritionist Can Help Your Blood Sugar

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WN4DC Team
21 April, 2020
In this diet-crazed, anxiety-ridden world, many people are selling fad diets and quick fixes. You know dieting doesn’t work but you do want to change your food and eating choices. The question is how? Seeking the help of a non-diet or weight-neutral diabetes educator or dietitian can help you...

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How To Be Free of Diabetes Guilt In 3 Steps

17 April, 2020
How To Be Free of Diabetes Guilt In 3 Steps You’ve been diagnosed with diabetes, now what? You left the doctors office with a prescription in hand for “weight loss”. Your instruction for managing your blood sugars is to lose weight. The only problem is you’ve tried to lose weight many times in...

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How A Weight Neutral Professional Can Get You Back Ontrack! 15 Resources to get starting

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WN4DC Team
17 April, 2020
How A Weight Neutral Professional Can Get You Back Ontrack! 15 Resources to get starting Weight-neutral educators are professionals that provide diabetes care. They are physicians, nurse practitioners, therapist, dietitians, pharmacists, exercise specialist and diabetes educators who understand...

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Get Your Diabetes Back On Track, With Weight Neutral Programs and Resources

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WN4DC Team
15 April, 2020
Weight-neutral educators are professionals that provide diabetes care. They are physicians, nurse practitioners, therapist, dietitians, pharmacists, exercise specialist and diabetes educators who understand that you are the focus, not your weight. They also believe that health and effective...

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ABOUT

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.