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We are a group of people with lived experience, carers, clinicians and academics who are passionate about ending the injustices of those affected by Eating Disorders.

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Dump The Scales @dumpthescales.bsky.social · Jul 9

💉Eating Disorders + Weight Loss Jabs:
Harm waiting to happen💉

We're concerned about the comments made by the Health Secretary around weight loss jabs, and the plans to widen access to them will harm people with eating disorders

Please sign our open letter to Wes Streeting today
shorturl.at/8XKGl

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Dump The Scales @dumpthescales.bsky.social · 6d

🥳Dump the Scales is now a CIC🥳

This means that:

🔵Our mission + values are legally protected
🔵Greater growth in awareness and impact
🔵More chances for funding to increase the voices of lived experience.

Be part of change>https://www.dumpthescales.org/support-the-movement

Dump The Scales @dumpthescales.bsky.social · 9d

📢New blog alert📢

@annacarnegie.bsky.social from @edcrn.bsky.social talks about the importance of trust in treatment, and how being treated as a unique individual with different interests and hopes for the future helped her recover from anorexia.

www.dumpthescales.org/post/seven-p...

Seven positives I took away from eating disorder treatment

Anna Carnegie, researcher and person with lived experience of eating disorders and OCD writes about the positives she took away from Eating Disorder Treatment

www.dumpthescales.org

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Dump The Scales @dumpthescales.bsky.social · Sep 4

📣Following the success of our work with the APPG on Eating Disorders, we have secured an Early Day Motion on Eating Disorders and Online Harms, tabled by the wonderful @werahobhouse.bsky.social 📣

Read it here> edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo...

Tag your MP below to ask them to sign the EDM 👇

Dump The Scales @dumpthescales.bsky.social · Sep 3

Yesterday @richardquigley.bsky.social, member of the APPG on Eating Disorders hosted a debate on ‘Preventing Eating Disorder Deaths’ in Westminster Hall.

📺If you missed it you can catch up here: parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/...

🗒️Read/listen to the transcript here> shorturl.at/Op45R

Image is on a square format. The background is light blue. At the top in dark blue reads #DumpTheScales and the bottom reads endeatingdisorders.org

In the centre in a photoframe is an image of a white man, Richard Quigley MP in Westminster Hall. To the top right of the image is a Dark Blue Circle with white text in the centre reading Thank You! In the bottom left in a dark blue square box with jaggered edges in white text reads 'to all members of parliament in attendance & everyone who tuned in

In the top left of the image is a swirled Blue line and the same in the bottom left corner.

Dump The Scales @dumpthescales.bsky.social · Sep 2

Today at 4:30pm, @richardquigley.bsky.social will lead a Westminster Hall debate on the prevention of deaths from eating disorders.

📺Watch it live here > parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...

We work with Richard as part of the APPG on eating disorders and we are always grateful for his support.

Dump The Scales @dumpthescales.bsky.social · Sep 1

👇Tag your MP in the comments
📧Email your MP and ask them to attend using our template docs.google.com/document/d/1...
✍️MPs can request a copy of the briefing doc from [email protected]
📺Watch live on Parliament TV

Dump The Scales @dumpthescales.bsky.social · Sep 1

Tomorrow MP @richardquigley.bsky.social is hosting a essential debate in Parliament on the Prevention of Eating Disorder Deaths.

MPs and representatives from the Department of Health will be in attendance.

Here is how you can get involved and help⬇️

Dump The Scales @dumpthescales.bsky.social · Aug 22

There is no evidence that losing weight will suddenly make me ready for work, and fix the economy."

Zoe Hazel, one of our amazing campaigners has penned a blog on her experience of Binge Eating Disorder and the narrative around weight loss jabs.

www.dumpthescales.org/post/i-haven...

"I haven’t failed; I’ve been failed by a system that isn’t set up for people like me"

Zoe Hazel, a mental health campaigner who spoke at this years #DumpTheScales march shares her thoughts on weight-loss injections as someone with binge eating disorder.

www.dumpthescales.org

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Dump The Scales @dumpthescales.bsky.social · Aug 21

The Eating Disorders Genetics Initiative @edgiuk.bsky.social needs you!

EDGI are looking for people with experience of any eating disorder (formal diagnosis not required!) to take part in their groundbreaking research on eating disorders.

⭐Be part of change. Sign up now👉 edgiuk.org

Eating Disorders Genetics Initiative | EDGI UK

The Eating Disorders Genetics Initiative is a project set up by King's College London, in collaboration with Beat, to explore genetic and environmental risk factors for eating disorders.

edgiuk.org

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Dump The Scales @dumpthescales.bsky.social · Aug 21

A landmark ruling to provide a woman severely ill with anorexia access to the life-saving treatment she needs following a 2023 decision to deny it.

Nobody with an eating disorder should end up in this position again. We have to fight for better.

www.doughtystreet.co.uk/news/court-p...

Court of Protection removes barriers for anorexic woman to receive life-saving treatment

London, 31 July 2025.

www.doughtystreet.co.uk

Dump The Scales @dumpthescales.bsky.social · Aug 21

Sending love to everyone collecting their GSCE results today.

Whether you are celebrating or commiserating, remember that no grade on a piece or paper, or number on a scale will ever define you.

Reach out to YoungMinds UK if you need support today.

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Medical Research Foundation @medresfdn.bsky.social · Aug 13

🚀 We’ve just launched our biggest Impact Report yet 🚀

From pain in babies to autism and eating disorders – this is research that’s changing lives.

£23m invested. 192 researchers supported. 200+ awards.

Read the full report on our website 💚
www.medicalresearchfoundation.org.uk/what-we-fund...

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Dump The Scales @dumpthescales.bsky.social · Aug 11

Just popping in to remind you that it is normal to have ups and downs in your ED recovery journey and it doesn't mean that you will never fully recover. 🫶

www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/well...

Navigating Slips in Recovering From an Eating Disorder

Relapse in the process of eating disorder recovery is common but often overlooked. Journalist Mallary Tenore Tarpley illuminates this "middle place" in her book, "SLIP."

www.psychologytoday.com

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NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) @nihrmaudsleybrc.bsky.social · Feb 28

Interested in taking part in #eatingdisorders research? Browse the @maudsleynhs.bsky.social website for studies like @edgiuk.bsky.social which are currently recruiting, and search by condition.

👉 slam.nhs.uk/take-part-in...
#EDAW #BePartofResearch @edifyresearch.bsky.social

Take part in eating disorders research - EDGI

Take part in eating disorders research - STORY

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Dump The Scales @dumpthescales.bsky.social · Jul 28

The first ever Dump the Scales newsletter will be dropping into inboxes tomorrow.
Make sure you are signed up here to be the first to be in the know> www.endeatingdisorders.org/join-our-mai...

Join our mailing list | Dump the Scales

Be the first to be in the know about all of our campaigning work in Parliament, our new reports and how you can get involved by signing up to the Dump the Scales mailing list!

www.endeatingdisorders.org

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The McPin Foundation @mcpinfoundation.bsky.social · Jul 28

🚨Researchers - last chance to have your say!🚨

The SUNRISE survey is closing end of the day tomorrow - don't miss out on sharing your thoughts: buff.ly/IGqt0b4

More info below 👇

The Mental Elf @thementalelf.bsky.social · Jul 8

How do we value subjective experiences in mental health research?

Are people’s experiences of depression, anxiety and psychosis properly integrated into mental health research?

Not really.

buff.ly/t5EyJzN

🧵 THREAD

#MentalHealthResearch #SubjectiveExperiencesResearch #Phenomenology #SUNRISE

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Dump The Scales @dumpthescales.bsky.social · Jul 27

Thank you @werahobhouse.bsky.social for speaking up about the dangers the rapid roll-out of weight loss jabs poses to individuals with eating disorders.

We want to see public health policies which don't demonise larger bodies or harm people with eating disorders.

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Dump The Scales @dumpthescales.bsky.social · Jul 27

We are seriously concerned about the impact of weight loss jabs and how it will increase the risk of eating disorders in vulnerable individuals.

These stories are become too commonplace.

Please sign our open letter to Wes Streeting below
✍️

the.organise.network/campaigns/ne...

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Dump The Scales @dumpthescales.bsky.social · Jul 17

Thank you for sharing Madi, we appreciate it!

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Madi; fighting myself to stay alive 🇵🇸 @madi-faith.bsky.social · Jul 16

; weight loss jabs are "functioning as medically-prescribed eating disorders." 👏🏻👏🏻

sadly, this is 100% accurate and making the jab so widely available will cause untold amounts of harm.

this article is well worth a read.

via @dumpthescales.bsky.social

www.endeatingdisorders.org/post/from-wh...

Weight loss are functioning as a medically-prescribed eating disorder.

From what I can see, these jabs are functioning as a medically-prescribed eating disorder. I am watching friends and loved ones engage in the behaviours I worked so hard to address. I am watching the...

www.endeatingdisorders.org

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Dump The Scales @dumpthescales.bsky.social · Jul 15

@madi-faith.bsky.social @melciavucco.bsky.social @alykhanasaria.bsky.social @natashadevon.bsky.social this blog might be of interest to you, we should appreciate any shares> www.endeatingdisorders.org/post/from-wh...

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Dump The Scales @dumpthescales.bsky.social · Jul 15

"I am watching this [expansion of weight loss jabs] as someone in recovery from both anorexia and bulimia, as well as an advocate for evidence-based research and an ally to those living in larger bodies.

It terrifies and saddens me."

New blog: ▶️ www.endeatingdisorders.org/post/from-wh...

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Center for Countering Digital Hate @counterhate.com · Jul 13

CCDH is holding social media companies accountable for enabling the spread of online harms, hate & lies.

Our mission is to protect civil liberties & human rights online.

Join our community & help us make the internet safer for everyone 👇
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Join us

Bad actors and greedy platforms are creating a toxic environment of hate and disinformation online that has real-world impacts. Join us and be part of the campaign to clean up social media and hold…

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Dump The Scales @dumpthescales.bsky.social · Jul 13

Living with an eating disorder is hard.

Recovery is hard.

Only one leads to lasting happiness.

Choose your hard.

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Dump The Scales @dumpthescales.bsky.social · Jul 10

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