Did you Beat Diet Culture Yet?
Hey Reader,
Have you replaced all of the damaging lessons the 90s diet culture + USDA taught us around food, exercise, and your body...with healthy thoughts & approaches?
When can you declare that "I'm cured!"?
[I'd love to discuss this with you.]
My takes:
Any small & positive change is a win.
Caveat: making any specific and intentional change can start as a healthy practice, morph into a healthy obsession, and evolve into an unhealthy obsession.
Blinders:
We can only undo what we first recognize as damaging.
Recognizing any negative language I use around food, exercise, and my body is tough when I'm in the fish bowl.
("What water?" a-la David Foster Wallace)
So is the struggle ever over?
What do you think?
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Huzzah,
Anne
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