Let’s talk about diet culture. I’ll use the analogy of the carrots to help you understand it better.
Rejecting the diet culture
Developing Body kindness means prioritising respect for yourself and your body as it is now. And for everyone else’s body too.
This also involves rejecting the diet culture making weight-loss the measure of success, and a thin body shape the measure of your worth.
đWhat is it exactly this âdiet cultureâ?
Letâs make an example:
đ„Think about womenâs body as carrotsđ„
We all know that carrots in nature come in different shapes, colours and sizes. Itâs normal. Itâs nature.
And here come the supermarkets: unless you are a carrot with a certain colour, shape, or size they will not put you on the shelves. Because, to their judgment, they are not appealing, and for that reason they are not worth being displayed on the shelves.
đDiet culture is the supermarkets.
The carrots value obviously doesnât come from their shape and size. A different carrot can be as good and as tasty as the one supermarkets want on display. Itâs just as good in taste. We all know this, but still the supermarket decides whatâs good to go for sale or not.
Diet culture is the same. It has decided that itâs beautiful to be thin, to be a certain shape and weight. Over the years, this has had an huge impact in the way we has women talk to ourselves and criticize our body.
What does it look like in real life?
Diet culture isn’t something abstract. So, what does it look like in real life?
It could be the comment a schoolmate makes about how bad you look, or a remark from your mother or another family member maybe saying: âIf you keep eating all that chocolate, you know youâre going to get bigger and biggerâ.
If I asked you to give me đ„ if you, or anyone you know, have been treated like a ‘bad carrot’ before, I’m sure I’d have a lifelong carrot supply. What do you think? đ
Dona
PS:Â There is lot you can do to heal your relationship with food and body and let go of the diet mentality.
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