

She dieted until her body-literally-refused to go through another day of food restriction, blood testing for ketosis levels, and high intensity interval workouts. Shelby Gordon is a retired professional dieter who dedicated over 40 years to mastering her craft.

Bacon delivers a unique blend of academic expertise, clinical experience, and social justice advocacy, all couched in a raw honesty and compassion that touch and inspire. A compelling speaker, writer, and storyteller, Dr. Bacon’s work is inspired by lessons learned through three graduate degrees in health science, including a PhD in physiology, as well as clinical and research experience. Both are credited with transforming the weight discourse and inspiring a hopeful new course for the global body positivity movement. Bacon has mined their deep academic proficiency, wide-ranging clinical expertise and own personal experience to write two best-selling books, Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight, and the co-authored Body Respect: What Conventional Health Books Get Wrong, Leave Out, or Just Plain Fail to Understand about Weight. Lindo Bacon’s inspiring message takes us beyond size, to shaping a culture of empathy, equity and true belonging. Plus, Ask Food Psych guest co-host Shelby Gordon answers a listener question about sharing the anti-diet message with people who may be resistant.īest known for their paradigm-shifting research and advocacy upending the weight discourse, Dr. Author and speaker Lindo Bacon returns to Food Psych® to discuss their new book, Radical Belonging how their perspective on HAES® has shifted since publishing Health At Every Size reframing disordered eating as a coping mechanism for trauma how gender affirmation helped them find body acceptance and so much more.
