Anti-Diet Culture

Body Image is Stored in your Brain Cells, not your Fat Cells.

I am Anti-Pursuit of Weight-loss which is Anti-Diet Culture because you can do very unhealthy things and still loose weight, so what are you truly sacrificing? Are you willing to do whatever damage to your body and Health you want as long as you “get away with it” when it comes to your weight?? ahhhhh!!! Diets; including ANYTHING that has a set of rules for your eating and is outside of listening to your own body, is CRAZY because are you REALLY willing to do those things the rest of your life? You need to focus on your actual relationship with food without all the rules. Ask yourself….what is my relationship with food….my body…and even a step further…. with myself? This forces you to face the reasons you got where you are in the first place and it force you to stop slapping a diet bandaid on your issues.. What diets have done is tune-out your own intuition with your Body and eating…. and have placed so many rules on food that you feel lost and “out of control” when the rules are put on pause or you stop applying them…..aka vacations, functions, events……etc. A good indicator of this is if you gain weight back every time you “stop dieting”or “stop applying the rules”.

That isn’t healthy and that isn’t sustainable.

What people think Anti-Diet is.

• Anti weight-loss
• Anti- people who diet
• Anti-Health
• Claiming that weight has zero impact on health
• Claiming that a person can be healthy at any size
• Only for certain bodies

What Anti-Diet REALLY IS:

• Anti-Pursuit of Weight Loss
• Anti-Diet Culture
• Anti-equating health with weight
• Recognizing that weight can impact health & that health is complicated & impacted by many factors
• Recognizing that a person can pursue health at every size
• for ALL Bodies

Diets lead to Disordered Eating, and the severity level fall on a spectrum. Signs you may suffer from disordered eating:

• Frequent dieting, anxiety associated with specific goods or meal skipping
• Chronic weight fluctuations
• Rigid rituals and routines surrounding food and exercise
• Feelings of guilt and shame associated with eating
• Preoccupied with food, weight and body image that negatively impacts quality of life
• A feeling of loss of control around food, including compulsive eating habits
• Using exercise, food restriction, fasting or purging to “make up for bad foods consumes”

IT TAKES AN INCREDIBLE AMOUNT OF TIME AND ENERGY TO TRY TO FORCE YOUR BODY INTO A SIZE AND SHAPE IT WAS NEVER MEANT TO BE. . . . . YOU MIGHT MAKE IT HAPPEN….BUT AT WHAT COST?

If you have weigh yourself and food….count calories…apply food restrictions that are medically unnecessary then you are on a diet…..

My best advice for you is to be careful because diet culture can be sneaky and good intentions is usually how it all starts… Keep yourself in check by checking-in with your Mental Health, your quality of Life and keeping weight-loss OFF your to-do list.

_______ . HEALTH > WEIGHT LOSS. ______