Developed by Dr. Lindo Bacon, is the clinical backbone of this lifestyle. HAES posits that:

They were just… living. In their real, unedited, un-shrunk bodies.

She followed it religiously. For two years, Maya had been chasing "wellness." She had the mat made of recycled bottles, the reusable straw, the sponsored Instagram posts showing the perfect arch of her back in a downward dog. She had 15,000 followers who told her she was "goals."