This is a follow-up to my last post, where hopefully, I helped you understand that if you’re sick and tired…
I still want to lose weight! The journey out of diet culture is challenging. The path isn’t clear and it…
Before I get into this, I want to say that I think we should all mind our own business, and stop judging, shaming and policing other people for any reason – even health. Living a healthy lifestyle and being healthy is not a moral imperative, and we have not been elected to police other people’s health. Ultimately, we’re all just trying to do the best we can. But, since the reality is that we do, as a culture, tend to judge people who live in larger bodies, and justify it by saying it’s about health, today, I want to tell you why I’m calling BS on that.
Going on a diet is like going to war against the food industry, your biology, and your psychology. And your connection to your body’s internal capacity to regulate hunger and enjoy eating can be a casualty of the war.
I’m Michelle and I know diets. I dieted for 40 years! If you add up all the weight I’ve lost over the course of these 4 decades, it comes to well over a hundred pounds. I’m good at dieting. When I gave up dieting a while ago, I was roughly the same weight as when I began.