The gem in the mud of &quot;Healthy at Every Size&quot; is indeed the encouragement of emotional resilience. Perhaps someone is a large person with an unhealthy appetite. This is unfortunate, but it doesn&#x27;t mean he or she must be resigned to consuming unhealthy foods. Certainly it&#x27;s better to consume 4,000 kcal per day of vegetables than the same amount in cake.<p>So often, in a state of despair, we indulge the sunk-cost fallacy by giving up simply because our conditions are not absolutely ideal. This is the emotional phenomenon the HAES seems to have been intended to address.