Category: Diet Culture
Body Positive, Non-Diet Gift Ideas
December 22nd, 2017 by Sara Upson
When I was in college I dated a guy who never bought Christmas gifts until Christmas Eve. He then went to Walgreens/CVS or any store still open past 8pm on December 24th and purchased presents for everyone. His family found it endearing. Me, not so much… It might be a little late this year to […]
17 Reasons Why You Should Not Diet
December 14th, 2017 by Sara Upson
Diets Screw Up Your Metabolism. When you diet you restrict your eating and essentially don’t eat enough food. Over time this slows your metabolism down because your body thinks you’re in a famine and begins to preserve energy to keep you alive. Metabolism slows while you’re dieting, but research suggests that it doesn’t necessarily improve, […]
Diet Talk Free At The Dinner Table
November 15th, 2017 by Sara Upson
When you live in diet culture it can be really hard to get away from diet talk. You can work to separate yourself from diet culture but you cannot make anyone else stop. It’s like that saying- you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make them drink. You can share all that […]
Is It Unusual to Trust Your Body?
August 24th, 2017 by Sara Upson
Do you think it’s unusual to trust your body, or more specifically, how about when it comes to eating? Do you eat when you’re hungry, stop when you’re full, and generally eat what you’re hungry for? A couple weeks ago on facebook I was sharing information about the Intuitive Eating Group starting in September […]
And Then Diet Culture Did This…
August 16th, 2017 by Sara Upson
I am a huge fan of intuitive eating. It revolutionized my life! And I love helping people reconnect with their bodies to become intuitive eaters. Lately though, I have seen this troubling trend of diet culture manipulating intuitive eating. In 2017 intuitive eating was listed as a top food/nutrition trend. This was great […]
1. Losing weight & changing your body won’t make you happy. I hate this message from diet culture, It’s so pervasive and accepted as reality, when it simply isn’t true. Losing weight doesn’t make you happier. Changing your body won’t make you more confident. I certainly believed this as a teenager and wish I could […]
A diet by any other name is still a diet
June 10th, 2017 by Sara Upson
Over the past few years diet culture has slowly been usurping the word health as a another form of dieting. I know diet culture is sneaky, I know it’s insidious, but come on- does diet culture really have to steal the word health and healthy too? When did the pursuit for heath itself actually become […]
Diet Culture 101
May 20th, 2017 by Sara Upson
Do you know what diet culture is? Most people don’t, yet we live in it daily! We have become so inundated with diet culture that it just seems normal. However, it’s time to end diet culture- or at least drop out of it- so that we can stop focusing on weight, shape, and size over […]
