
13/09/2025
It’s not just 8-week shreds and supplements.
It’s in the background noise of daily life:
➡️ The colleague praised for dropping a dress size no matter how she did it.
➡️ The silence when someone gains.
➡️ The apps congratulating you for undereating, even when you’re starving.
This is diet culture.
And it’s everywhere.
👉 It convinces you that health = a number on the scale.
👉 It praises discipline but treats hunger as weakness.
👉 It fuels the cycle: restrict → binge → guilt → repeat.
The stats don’t lie:
📉 95% of restrictive diets fail within 2–5 years.
📱 Just minutes of “fitspo” scrolling increase body dissatisfaction.
👩👧 Teens who diet are 2–3x more likely to develop eating disorders.
💷 The average UK adult spends £20,000 chasing weight loss over their lifetime.
And here’s the kicker:
New evidence shows it may be stigma itself, not body weight driving stress, overeating, and worse health.
Yet slimming clubs still clap for “half a pound lost” and ignore the person who’s finally stopped binge eating.
That’s diet culture in action.
And it’s stealing your time, your money, and your joy.
But real health isn’t shrinking your body.
It’s expanding your life.
Energy. Sleep. Nutrition. Exercise. Joy around food. Strength. Freedom.
If we could only put half the effort into being more active than we did weight loss (at any cost) we would be far better off.
✨ If you’re ready to break free from diet culture…
Comment FREEDOM below 👇 and I’ll send you my free Food Freedom Guide.