Ottawa Health Outside Diet Culture

In fact, we believe that being anti-diet allows you to be a healthier version of yourself all around. Health is NOT a number on the scale. It is not a number on the label of your jeans. And it is not the size of your thighs. At The Balanced Practice, we used an adapted a Health at Every Size model, which supports the idea that we can engage in life enhancing and health promoting behaviors regardless of body size.

Health is a combination of controllable and uncontrollable factors. Approximately 70% of health outcomes are predicted by uncontrollable factors such as: genetics, childhood experiences, access to health care, environmental factors, etc.

At The Balanced Practice, we separate the 30% of controllable factors into 7-pillars:

• Personalized nutrition
• Movement
• Stress regulation
• Sleep hygiene
• Emotion regulation
• Community & connection
• Quality of life

At The Balanced Practice, we believe that health does not have a body size. We believe that solely focusing on weight as your measure of success is a slippery slope to disordered eating and ultimately does not lead to better health outcomes. We focus on a holistic approach that supports you in developing health promoting behaviors outside diet culture.

If you are interested in learning more about how you can work on your health from an anti-diet and weight inclusive lens, The Balanced Practice is the place for you. We focus on behaviors, thoughts and emotions to empower you in learning more about how to take care of your body and engage in health promoting behaviors.