Meredith Terpeluk, MNA
Healthy Voice Coach
Non-profit consultant
Wellness Advocate
When I first got into recovery, I told my cousin that I was getting help for the way that I was eating. She immediately told me this story: It doesn’t surprise me Mere. Don’t you remember when we were kids? You would always get mad about food. One time we were at the beach and our [...]
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We are not our weight. We are not how much we’ve gained. We are not how much we’ve lost. We are not how much we want to lose. We aren’t going to be better when we lose it. We aren’t going to finally fit in when we lose it. We are enough right now. If [...]
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What I saw in last night’s third episode of “Huge” was the impact of weight discrimination. When a “normal” sized kid (whatever, it’s all relative) makes fun of an overweight one (like the tennis camp kids did), they feel rejected. They also feel anger and they show it by doing the character game they do [...]
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Great episode tonight of Huge. I really like how this show uses the different characters to portray how everyone has such similar but different things going on beneath the surface. Those of us who overeat have a million reasons why we do…that’s why no one can figure out how to fix us. But our emotional [...]
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