Posts tagged reject the diet mentality
Why I Quit Social Media and 6 Things I Do Instead

Social media is a hot topic these days. It is both blamed for the downfall of humanity while at the same time providing life-affirming connections for those who may be otherwise isolated.

My decision to quit social media took a few years and a good amount of personal reflection. For me, I found the toll it took on my mental and emotional health was greater than the benefits I gained from being on it.

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How Intuitive Eating Works: Interoceptive Awareness - The Science of Intuition

Intuitive Eating is not a random list of rules. The principles were developed to help you better sense, understand, and respond to your body’s internal cues. They help you improve your body awareness or remove obstacles that make it harder to have body awareness.

Strengthening interoceptive awareness will make it easier to notice and respond appropriately to your body’s internal signals, including hunger, fullness, and tricky emotions.

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The Truth About Weight Loss and Intuitive Eating: What You Need to Know

The long and short of it is that intuitive eating is not a diet. Not even a non-diet diet. Or an anti-diet diet. Diets are about changing your physical body, usually to make it smaller. Focusing on weight will make it impossible to truly eat intuitively.

Intuitive eating is about changing your relationship with food and your body; it is not about changing your body size.

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Intuitive Eating 101: The 10 Principles

Intuitive Eating is a framework of 10 principles that support self-care and can help you improve your relationship with food and your body. It helps you relearn how to listen to and trust internal cues of hunger, fullness, and satisfaction rather than relying on strict external diet rules.

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A Nutritionist's Concerns About Weight Loss Drugs

Considered by some to be an “easy fix,” these drugs have to potential to exacerbate anti-fat bias. The affordability, spotty insurance coverage, and the fact it won’t work for everyone (either because it simple doesn’t work or the side effects are untenable), or someone simply doesn’t care to take a medication, means these biases will unduly impact those with marginalized identities including those in larger bodies, POC, trans folks, and those with lower socioeconomic status.

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