Weight Inclusive Guide to Fertility

If you've been struggling with infertility, chances are that you may have been either told to lose weight, or given advice to eat some weird and confusing diet. Knowing what we do about the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of weight loss as a health intervention, we can pretty safely say that that's not super helpful. Plus, restricting our diet can be really problematic if we've had a tricky relationship with food.

Trying to manage infertility with a kind, compassionate and weight-inclusive approach can be tough to navigate on your own, so we've created our Weight Inclusive Guide to fertility!

We want to be your advocates in navigating a fatphobic healthcare system, and help you understand your rights, and how you can advocate for yourself to get the treatment and care you deserve. 

Unlike what diet culture tries to sell us, there is no magic diet that will boost fertility. What we can help you do though, is sort fact from fiction, giving you a range of realistic and accessible strategies that you can try to help yourself feel a little better, without the pressure to be 'perfect'. 

Alongside the advice around gentle nutrition, we’ve also unpacked the impacts of sleep, rest, and movement on fertility, to help you understand things through a more holistic and inclusive lens. We’ve dug deep into the literature to bring you the latest recommendations around supplements, stress management and other alternative therapies, giving a broad range of suggestions so everyone can find what works best for them. ⁣

Finally, we've done our best to make this guide accessible, weight inclusive, and non-judgemental. Everything we provide is a suggestion for you to pick-and-mix the approach that suits you, your body, and your circumstances, whatever that looks like for you right now. This guide is also suitable for people who have a history of an eating disorder or disordered eating.

A note on pricing:

AT LCIE we believe that everyone should have access to body-affirming health care. We are therefore offering this resource on a sliding-scale, pay what you can. We are asking you pay what you think this resource is worth and what value you think it will add to your life.

Below we are offering suggested pricing, depending on your circumstances:

£20 - those with privilege or who can afford to pay 'full-price'

£15 - student and those with privilege but who find themselves in difficult circumstances currently

£10 - marginalised or disadvantaged groups

If this is still not accessible to you but you'd really benefit from this resource, please get in touch via hello@laurathomasphd.co.uk

A note on sharing:

We ask you to be respectful of the time, energy, effort and brainpower that went into making this resource. Please do not share or copy any part of this resource without our express permission; it devalues our work and more importantly, it prevents us from offering sliding scale resources in the future. Do the right thing, be a good citizen.

** Please note ** - if you are a clinician or health care practitioner, we have made this resource available for individuals as low-cost as we can in effort to make health information more equitable. Part of the reason we can do this is via support from those with professional and educational privileges. As such, we ask you to sign up to our full training for this resource at https://londoncentreforintuitiveeating.co.uk/a-weight-inclusive-guide-to

Access to this training also gives you the right to distribute this detailed resource to your clients. you'll also receive an in-depth 1 hour CPD training covering aetiology, pathophysiology, current guidelines (and critique thereof), plus an evidence-based review of recommendations, plus an accompanying guide for clinicians. There will also be an opportunity to ask the LCIE team questions in a live Q+A. We ask you to please be respectful of the work that has been involved in the creation of this resource and help us keep it low-cost for those who are in the most need. N.B. distribution of this resource for commercial reasons violates the terms of copyright.