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Dealing With Fatphobia At The Doctor’s Office Workshop (Ragen Chastain)
$20.00In the Dealing With Fatphobia At The Doctor’s Office workshop, we discuss tips, tricks, and techniques for getting competent, evidence-based, weight-neutral (and sometimes even fat-positive!) care from doctors and other healthcare practitioners, even in a fatphobic healthcare system
Topics include:
- Finding a fat-friendly healthcare practitioner
- Options for handling the weigh-in
- Asking for accommodations
- What to do when a healthcare professional “prescribes” weight loss
- Getting diagnostic tests (CT Scan, MRI etc.) when the machine isn’t built to accommodate fat bodies
- Dealing with surgery denials (including joint replacement surgeries)
- Strategies to discuss research about weight and health with your provider
- Strategies for when a fatphobic practitioner is the only option
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Overcoming Internalized Fatphobia Workshop (Ragen Chastain)
$20.00In the Overcoming Internalized Fatphobia workshop we’ll learn how to uncover the fatphobic beliefs that we’ve internalized from our fatphobic society, understand how they are affecting us, apply practical options for dealing with them and, finally, learn how to make sure we don’t internalize new fatphobia in the future. We’ll learn how to stop fighting our bodies on behalf of weight stigma, and start fighting weight stigma on behalf of our bodies.
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The Role of Size Acceptance in Eating Disorders Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery Workshop (Ragen Chastain)
$20.00In the Size Acceptance and Eating Disorders workshop, we’ll discuss the role of Size Acceptance, including Fat Acceptance specifically, in eating disorders prevention, treatment, and recovery.
We’ll begin by examining the messages that come to us about beauty, our bodies, and health, and how they create an environment that perpetuates disordered eating and eating disorders. We’ll discuss how using a framework of Size Acceptance and Health at Every Size prevents eating disorders and provides practical, realistic options to help those dealing with disordered eating and eating disorders, as well as anyone affected by these negative messages, to repair the damage these messages have done, and create strategies that support dealing with them moving forward including through recovery journeys and beyond.
This workshop is for anyone interested in eating disorders prevention, treatment, and recovery and is based on keynotes and workshops that I’ve presented at state and national eating disorders conferences..
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The Truth About Weight and Health Workshop (Ragen Chastain)
$20.00There are a lot of beliefs, myths, and misconceptions that float around when it comes to the relationship between weight and health. In this workshop we’ll discuss them from science and social justice perspectives.
Topics will include:
- What the research says about weight and health
- Why do so many people, including doctors, say that weight loss will make you healthier? (And why are they wrong?)
- Common issues with the research around weight and health, and how to spot them
- How to discuss the research with skeptics
- Answers to the questions
- But what about fat people’s effect on my tax dollars?
- Can you be fat and healthy?
- Shouldn’t we treat fat people like we treat smokers?
- Does being fat cause health issues?
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Talking Back To Fatphobia Workshop (Ragen Chastain)
$20.00In the Talking Back To Faphobia workshop, we discuss options for dealing with the fatphobia we face as we navigate the world – from responses that encourage dialog, to responses that encourage people to leave us TF alone.
Scenarios include:
- Family and friends
- Work
- Doctors and healthcare providers
- Random fatphobes we meet online and in-person
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Weight Loss Surgery and Diet Drugs – The Research and the Reality Workshop (Ragen Chastain)
$20.00More and more, healthcare practitioners are pushing their fat patients to try weight loss drugs and/or weight loss (bariatric) surgery. But is this really healthcare, or just medical weight stigma and diet culture in a more dangerous (and expensive) form? In this workshop we’ll dive into the research around these “healthcare interventions” to look at the data (and expose the lack thereof) around efficacy and risks.
Topics Include:
• Breakdown of the research around common weight loss drugs, including Wegovy
• Breakdown of the research around bariatric surgery, including as a “treatment” for health issues
• Who and what is behind the research
• What led to the widespread use of these risky interventions
• What does true informed consent for these interventions include
• How to navigate discussions about these interventions with your family, friends, and healthcare provider -
Weight Stigma and Capitalism Workshop (Ragen Chastain)
$20.00In the Fatphobia and Capitalism workshop, we’ll talk about how they intersect to create harm in the lives of fat people in everything from fashion to healthcare. In this talk we’ll take an introductory look at the ways that capitalism and fatphobia (intersecting with other forms of oppression) combine to create marginalization and harm, and we’ll take a deep dive into the ways that the diet industry has put their profits over fat people’s health and lives, including by hijacking the concepts of health and healthcare. Finally, we’ll discuss ways to mitigate that harm, and create change.
Topics will include:
- How industries, from fashion to travel and more, align with fatphobia for profit
- Impacts of capitalism and fatphobia on employment, pay and promotion
- How the diet industry manipulates the concept of health/healthcare funding
- How the diet industry infiltrates the healthcare industry, harming fat people for profit
- How we can spot these issues when they are happening
- Realistic strategies to cope now and to create long-term change.
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Understanding the Research About Weight and Health Workshop (Ragen Chastain)
$20.00In the Understanding the Research About Weight and Health, you’ll learn about existing research, tips and tricks for breaking down research, and reading media articles. Research around weight and health can be daunting, dense, confusing, and downright misleading. A mix of diet industry involvement and weight bias (from methodology to media reporting) has created a world where what “everybody knows” about weight and health is often not supported by the actual research.
In this workshop we’ll talk about the existing research around weight and health, learn techniques to evaluate media articles and studies to see past the weight bias and diet industry smoke screen and get to the truth. This workshop will deal with concepts in plain language and is for research nerds and non-research nerds alike, including those with no experience at all in research methods.
Topics will include:
- An overview of the existing research around weight and health
- A discussion of the most common errors in the research, and the ways that they mislead
- Tips and tricks to spot issues in media articles and research
- Options for discussing the research with friends, family, and healthcare practitioners
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Weight Neutral Blood Sugar Management Workshop (Ragen Chastain)
$20.00When it comes to blood sugar management, medical weight stigma often puts higher weight people at a serious disadvantage by focusing on trying to change their body size rather than actually managing their blood sugar. In the weight-neutral blood sugar management workshop we’ll discuss weight-neutral options for managing blood sugar without diet or weight-loss talk, without restriction, without shame, and on your own terms.