AUBIE EDA
With the holiday season filled with sweets, treats and goodies, watching our weight is the last thing on our minds. This week on Auburn University’s campus is “Throw Away the Scales Week.â€? It runs from November 5 through 11.
“Throw Away the Scales Week� is sponsored by Auburn University Body Image Education and Eating Disorders Awareness (AUBIE EDA).
AUBIE EDA is encouraging students, faculty and staff to throw away their scales and 
become less weight conscious. They also will be distributing information on when scales should be used and why a personal scale should be thrown away.
Jil Moses, Sorority Body Image Program chair said, “It promotes the fact that you should only be weighing yourself when you are at the doctor. Too many people fall into the habit of worrying about the actual number weight and not how healthy they are.�
Special trash cans will be placed across campus to collect scales. The areas include The Hill in Burton Hall, The Quad Center mail room and select sorority chapter rooms. All received scales will be donated to the Red Cross and other charities.
An organization on Auburn’s campus, AUBIE EDA, focuses on loving your body the way it is. Their goal is to get students and faculty to stop worrying about being super thin and to just be healthy.
AUBIE EDA is based on the success of F.L.Y. at the University of George. Alan Duffy, founder and president of AUBIE EDA, plans to build an organization that will inspire new thinking and understanding of these issues at Auburn and bring about new leadership for our long term goals at Auburn.
For more details about “Throw Away the Scales Week� and AUBIE EDA please visit www.auburn.edu/aubieeda.
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