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April 5, 2017 by Molly 5 Comments

Hello and welcome! I'm Molly Forbes - podcaster, presenter and blogger with a passion for positivity, confidence and body image chat. Regularly writing and vlogging about empowering female issues from a motherhood angle, I also cover lifestyle and fashion topics for like-minded mums who want to rediscover themselves after having children. Thanks for stopping by! Read More…

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Wild swimming is my new favourite. Swipe to see my

Wild swimming is my new favourite. Swipe to see my athletic prowess on the rope swing, complete with multiple pauses for wedgie removal 😂. I am clearly so comfortable in the wild I am basically Ray Mears. #MumsGoneWild

Stop the world, I want to get off. . I was scared

Stop the world, I want to get off.
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I was scared the Better Health campaign would give the green light for body shame to come for kids and ramp up the dangerous culture of body hate and weight-based discrimination many children are facing, and it seems I was right. Here’s the latest stigmatising coverage (from yesterday).
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FYI, beware any headline or show referencing “health experts” as if that makes the claim an unarguable, unbiased one. There are many different types of health professional and they don’t all agree on everything all the time. And being an “expert” in one area of health doesn’t make you an expert in all areas of health. When the media quote “health experts” it’s often someone with a political agenda - and it won’t necessarily be a doctor or dietician or someone with training in medicine, nutrition, or another area of health. Always look beyond the headlines and remember that journalists have internalised bias just like everyone else, and it’s their job to sell stories and make people tune in - often the more controversial the better. (Full disclosure - I’m a former news journalist so I know how stories make it to air and print, and how important media literacy is in decoding things often presented as unquestionable fact.)
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Want a better way? We’ve got spaces on two Body Happy Kids workshops in September. There’s a link in my bio where you can read more. They’re one hour, evidence-based workshops that have now been delivered to more than 100 teachers and youth leaders to cancel diet culture and weight stigma in schools and create body happy environments for kids to thrive in. ❤️ And if you’re a parent there are free downloadable resources I created at the start of lockdown, via the link in my bio, as well as an activity pack full of body image boosting things to do with kids. Our children deserve better than body shame 💕
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#BodyHappyKids

Just popping in to bring some sexy realness to you

Just popping in to bring some sexy realness to your feed and remind you not to compare your life to an edited highlights reel. Here I am on my swanky holiday in a five star hotel freshly woken after a refreshing eight hours’ sleep in silken sheets wearing my designer nightwear. #LifestyleGoals

It’s important to distinguish between doctors an

It’s important to distinguish between doctors and dieticians, and to remember that GPs and doctors are NOT dieticians. People go to university for four years and then often do Masters or PhD’s before they start practising in dietetics. Doctors are great (my sister is one!) but they are not dieticians. Being a doctor does not automatically give you the expertise to give nutrition advice. Remember this if you are referred to Slimming World or Weight Watchers by your GP, or if you watched a certain TV show last night (hosted, btw, by a medical psychiatrist, not a GP - see @drjoshuawolrich post for more on that).
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I think it’s concerning when doctors write diet books, particularly when they are well known celeb doctors. Not only does it drive a weight-focused health agenda (side note: doctors! Read Health At Every Size by Lindo Bacon PhD!), but it perpetuates anti-fat bias in the medical community.
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And this matters why? Because weight stigma and health are not compatible. Research shows many of the health outcomes blamed on weight can be attributed to the effect of weight stigma rather than the weight itself, but ALSO weight stigma means many people put off going to see a doctor due to past upsetting experiences in the GP surgery OR they are not properly diagnosed because their weight is the focus of the consultation.
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Look, I’m not coming for doctors. I appreciate you and know you’ve done an exceptional job in the pandemic. Again, my sister is a doctor. BUT doctors are a product of society just like you and me. They are human with their own internalised biases. It’s important we remember this, particularly if their prescription involves nutrition advice which many dieticians would condemn as being actively bad for health.

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Re-sharing this vid from January to show, despite

Re-sharing this vid from January to show, despite what fatphobic attitudes would have you believe, body acceptance does NOT mean “giving up”. It IS possible to enjoy moving your body without weight loss being the ultimate goal.
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Diet culture has messed up our relationship with exercise just like it’s messed up our relationship with food. And the government’s Better Health campaign just continues to perpetuate the myth that exercise is a weight loss tool, and that those in bigger bodies can’t be fit. WRONG!
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⚡️Did you know research shows people who are fat and fit live longer than those who are thin and unfit? ⚡️Did you know weight stigma and anti-fat attitudes are a massive barrier for many people who want to work out? ⚡️Did you know that exercising for intrinsic reasons (how it makes you feel) over extrinsic ones (how it makes you look) is a better long term motivator for consistent exercise? ⚡️And did you know that a study in 2007 showed people who are motivated to exercise for health and enjoyment reasons had a lower pulse, systolic blood pressure and salivary stress hormone levels while those motivated by weight loss had none of these physical measures? Fitness through a diet culture lens is NOT the one!
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If you want kids to enjoy movement then teaching them that all bodies are good bodies is absolutely KEY to a lifelong healthy relationship with exercise.
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But also: other people’s bodies and health habits are none of your business! People have the right to respect and dignity REGARDLESS of their health status.
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And finally (I’ll put my megaphone down in a sec) ALL movement is valid, despite what the “go hard or go home” crew tell you. It’s YOUR body, move it however you want, however it feels good, and not to “atone” for the “syns” you ate at your last meal ❤️❤️❤️
#BodyHappy #BodyImage

CELEBRATE YOUR BODY ❤️ This book by @sonyarene

CELEBRATE YOUR BODY ❤️ This book by @sonyareneetaylor is just the most joyful book to help girls understand and embrace their changing bodies. My eldest is 10 and she read it cover to cover, and it’s sparked so many gorgeous, open, curious conversations about puberty and periods and hormones and emotions and all the things.
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@thebodyisnotanapology
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[ID: Celebrate Your Body book by Sonya Renee Taylor]

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