Hey, can you expand if possible on what "Health at Every Size"...means? I'd only ever heard the term on here and I'd always thought it was a fat positive movement, but lately I've been following a bunch of fat activists over on twitter as well and although I've only seen offhand references to it, I get the idea that most of them think its bad? As in fatphobic?
And I've just been quite confused by it all.
https://haescommunity.com/ I don't know why people would think it's bad or fatphobic. At its core the movement is about decentralizing weight as a measure of health, promoting a health first vs weight first treatment in medical circles and critically examining data from studies. From there you've got promoting fat inclusion in various ways ie creating and promoting better fat fashion or fat work out gear. Teaching and unlearned fatphibic stereotypes and confronting fat stigma in our culture.
People might have issue with it from a uneducated standpoint or if they don't like L Bacon the, uh I guess "founder". So I'm not sure. Take some time to read the link and see if you vibe with it.
Also if for whatever reason you don't like the formality of HAES you can still adopt the values and practices involved with it.