214: How Do We Start To Unpick Diet Culture?

Growth In Progress

Are you having a Brat Summer? No, we aren’t either, unless baked oats and watching the Olympics 24/7 count. But we do have some great recommendations and we start to unpick some of the damaging and unconscious biases we have surrounding diet culture. We grew up with the Special K diet, no carbs, clean eating, heroin chic, The Kardashian’s and ever other itteration of diet culture that you can imagine. And whilst we can look back now and see how harmful it was, it doesn’t mean that it’s easy to actually change our mindsets. Over the past 3 months with of us have undertaken big lifestyle changes to become our strongest, fittest and healthiest versions of ourselves, but as we’ve done that we’ve also had to start confronting some of the toxic beliefs we’ve held despite many of them starting with good intentions.

This episode contains conversations about diet culture, body image, bodyweight disordered eating and other similar themes. If those topics aren’t for you, please hit pause and listen to another episode instead.

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