Diet Culture Dropout
I am a proud diet culture drop out. Which seems pretty odd for a girl that has gone through great lengths to build and provide health coaching. I support and hold clients’ hands through medical weight loss and beyond. I will work with you to set balanced macros to track and balance. I will empower you to set movement goals and secondary food strategy goals. Even in all this in my personal and professional life, I still categorize myself as a diet culture drop out. I will scream that diet culture is toxic. Diet culture has taught us that health is determined by size, good and bad foods, and more. It does more harm to our health than positive. Diet culture is toxic, and I think it’s only fair for us to explore this.
Health doesn’t equate to thinness.
Diet culture promotes the idea that certain bodies are “better” than others. Diet culture often idealizes thinness as the standard for beauty and health, leading to fatphobia and discrimination against people in larger bodies. This can harm people’s self-esteem, body image, and mental health.
Disordered eating doesn’t result in health.
It encourages restrictive eating and dieting behaviors. Diet culture often focuses on weight loss and achieving a certain body shape, which can lead to unhealthy and unsustainable eating patterns. This can contribute to disordered eating, including binge eating, orthorexia, and anorexia.
What kind of relationship do you have with food?
It reinforces a harmful relationship with food, your body, and excercise. Diet culture encourages the labeling of certain foods as “good” or “bad,” leading to guilt and shame around eating. Exercise is something we do to earn food or work it off. Exercise is not a punishment for our body size or what we ate, but it is a celebration of what our body can do. This can also contribute to the development of food anxiety and a preoccupation with food and body size.
Socioeconomic factors on health.
While this could be an entire thesis, diet culture ignores all sorts of socioeconomic and environmental factors. Thus putting the responsibility for health solely on individuals and their food choices, ignoring the role of systemic issues such as poverty, racism, and lack of access to healthcare and healthy food options.
Become a diet culture drop out.
In our society we have allowed this toxic diet culture industry to promote harmful messages and behaviors around food, body size, movement, and health. This is contributes to negative physical and mental health outcomes and perpetuate harmful societal attitudes and inequalities. You can say no. Say no to diet culture and join the diet culture drop outs for you, you ancestors, and future generations.
Are you ready to drop out of diet culture and achieve true mind, body, and soul health? A health that focuses on healing relationships with food, fitness, and yourself? A health that is built on empowerment not shame and guilt? I would love to chat with you. Request some more information and schedule a FREE health consult here. We will walk through your health journey and your goals and establish balanced strategies to get there.
