Training: Understanding The Case Against Intentional Weight-loss
Understanding the Case Against Weight Loss is a seminar designed for health and wellness practitioners ready to examine one of the most foundational and rarely questioned assumptions in their field.
Together, we’ll explore the scientific, ethical, and clinical limitations of weight-loss as a health intervention. Drawing on current research in weight science, long-term outcomes, and weight stigma, this session will unpack why weight-loss is often ineffective long-term and how its pursuit can unintentionally cause harm.
Participants will leave with:
●A clearer understanding of the evidence on long-term weight-loss outcomes
●Insight into the impact of weight stigma on client health and care
●Alternative frameworks that center weight inclusivity
This seminar is ideal for practitioners who are curious, questioning, or actively seeking more ethical and effective approaches to supporting client health.
About the facilitator:
Virgie Tovar is a weight discrimination expert and author of 4 books, including The Body Positive Journal and The Self-Love Revolution: Radical Body Positivity for Girls of Color. Tovar holds an MA, with a research focus on how weight bias impacts gender in plus-size women of color. She has been a Forbes.com contributor since 2018 on how weight bias impacts culture and is a Yale Poynter Fellow in Journalism for her work covering weight stigma. Tovar has trained and consulted for Georgetown Medical School, Meta, and the San Francisco Department of Public Health, and has been featured by the NYT, BBC, Tech Insider, Slate, and NPR.
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