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Truly.

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Just start…

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07/09/2022

Another great mama tip

07/09/2022

I still struggle sometimes to name the work that I do. The term “anti-diet” is often used to describe what I consider weight-inclusive nutrition care, but there’s sometimes confusion about what “anti-diet” means. So here are some of my thoughts:

“Anti-diet” does NOT mean: anti-weight loss, anti-nutrition, anti-health, or anti-person who diets.

Rather, it means: Anti-the-oppressive-diet-culture that causes us to feel “less than” and then use our time, energy & money to "fix" or shrink ourselves in order to healthy, loved, accepted.

It means: Anti-the-oppressive-diet-culture that causes us to deny what we really want/need in favor of what society deems “acceptable”.

It means: Anti-the-oppressive-diet-culture that disconnects us both from our bodies AND our true selves. That keeps us small, hidden and busy trying to shrink our bodies to fit a supposed “ideal” instead of fully living and trusting in our intuition.

I’m anti-the(racist, sexist, classist)oppressive-diet-culture that keeps people from stepping into their own full, unapologetic power.

I do not shame or blame anyone for wanting to lose weight. It makes sense why they would want to bc, in doing so, we are promised belonging, health, happiness. Giving up the idea of losing weight can bring about the (legitimate) fear of being judged, disrespected or worse. Very real oppression exists in our society; it’s understandable that someone would want to protect themselves from this injustice by losing weight.

Moving away from dieting and holding an “anti-diet” stance is NOT about convincing people that they shouldn’t want to lose weight; it’s about freeing people – especially folks with marginalized identities such as women, fat people, and BIPOC people – from historically rooted systems of oppression.

Everyone has body autonomy and can pursue weight loss if they want to. AND I also believe in informed consent. So we have to talk about things like:

-The societal forces involved in the desire for weight loss
-The abysmal statistics about the efficacy of long-term weight loss
-All the negative side effects pursuing weight loss has
-The evidence that weight does NOT equal health

Thoughts? Questions? What did I miss?

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07/09/2022

It’s always interesting how we look at food. Why do we view some foods as fattening versus others? It’s true that protein content can modify fat versus muscle gain slightly but our activity and genetics play more of a role there. So in the end it’s calorie intake.

Calorie intake can change based on the food type too. Would the salad leave someone fuller than the pizza which would cause fewer calories to be eaten later? Maybe.

But I also think stress and guilt from eating foods we deem as fattening isn’t great either. Or the restriction of such foods because we think they are bad.

Yes, focus on more fruits and veggies and lean protein sources, but don’t get caught in the dichotomous thinking (some foods are good and some foods are bad). ❤️

As someone on twitter pointed out, I’d like my salad and pizza. Lol!

07/09/2022

There are a lot of marketing ploys that oversimplify health while greatly exaggerating the benefits of a drug, diet, food, etc. How can you navigate the misinformation superhighway, and save your time, money, health, and energy? An excellent resource is the website science based medicine :-)

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/

Carpe Datum and Semper Sci!
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