Hi all. I have been on a health/wellness/"diet" since 2019. I recently got a message on my social media well wishing that I would be at peace with my body and diet culture. She wished body positivity for me, and let me tell you what, I have done the most regarding being positive for my body by being mindful in my diet choices.
I am getting tired and upset about the fact that the word Diet has become a dirty word in some circles.
Do NOT get me wrong. I think like with everything in this world, diets can be detrimental, but that being said, at least for me, it has been instrumental for my health and well being.
So I looked it up, and diet has four meanings, 1) what you consume via drink and food, 2) habitual nourishment, 3) amount of food prescribed for health reasons, and 4) a regimen of eating or drinking less for weight loss.
None of those things are inherently evil, but I am sick that I need to be mindful in my posts about using that word. I exercise and have lost a little less than 40 lbs at this point... I am not anything special. I assure you. I can't imagine what people who have lost a lot of weight get on theirs...
Dude, I'm still considered obese, let's pump the breaks. I am legit a 35 year old woman who has two children and my father has the betes and my brothers both have high blood pressure. I think the most wonderful and amazing thing I have done and continue to try to do is watch what I eat and drink.
I also 100% agree that diets and the culture surrounding young women about their body shape can be very bad and can even lead young women to a defeatist attitude about their health.
However, some people need to diet. It's the truth. I'm not saying that those people need you or me or maybe anyone (lead a horse to water, but...) to tell them, but when a person as an individual comes to the realization that what they have been eating and drinking could be better and they want to be healthier or limit their food intake to a healthy amount of food rich with fruits, non-starchy vegs, and lean protein, they shouldn't feel like they can't say the word diet or talk about weight loss.
Also Demi Levato needs to be mindful that there are many other eating disorders. Like me, when I was at my heaviest I used it food FOR EVERYTHING. Bad day = boo, let's eat our misery away. Good day = yeah you deserve to eat all of this food. Great day = let's go celebrate with drinks, apps, a huge meal, AND DESSERT. Tired day= I'm too busy to cook, let's just get fast food. Busy day = I don't have enough time to cook or clean up = let's get fast food or order in or go out. That is not ok mentally for a person to do, but I was doing it all the time every day and it was killing me physically and mentally.
I think when you start confusing your emotional hunger cues with your actual hunger cues that MIGHT be disordered eating, but I'm not a professional. How do you fix that because intuitive eating can't be intuitive when you can't understand when your body is actually hungry... just saying.
Thanks for the vent... I needed to say it somewhere.
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