Discover how to challenge diet culture and reframe your beliefs with these five empowering techniques. Break free from food morality, exercise for joy, embrace diverse body sizes, honor your hunger cues, and set boundaries in a diet-focused world. Learn to navigate diet culture effectively.
If you or someone you love struggles with food and body distress, you are not alone. Unfortunately, over 30 million Americans struggle with eating disorders. When we talk about healing, we often talk about how important recovery is, what it involves, and how you can get there. But where is there? Recovery can feel like a leap of faith into the unknown, so here are four tangible reasons to heal your relationship with food.
Have you ever been unhappy with your appearance and decided to go ‘on’ a diet? Perhaps at first, you feel really good about this decision. You cut out certain food groups and start to lose weight. Eventually, you miss the foods you are no longer ‘allowed’ to eat and decide to eat them. Once you’ve broken the seal, you choose to go ‘off’ the diet and eat what you want, maybe even more than you want. You are filled with guilt for ‘failing.’ Sound familiar? If so, you may have been trapped in the diet cycle.