I asked volunteers to guess: “Which one of these pictures am I struggling with anorexia?”
100% of the responses were image #5.
Read Morediet culture
Days before flooding my body with nutrients and calories in the summer of 2008. For the first time in my life, my focus was on eating—instead of NOT eating. As a result, my health biomarkers significantly improved within twelve months.
Do You Struggle with Uncontrollable Urges to Overeat?
This morning, I listened to The Diet Rebel Podcast by Bonnie Roney.
Bonnie is a Registered Dietitian, Intuitive Eating Counselor, and Eating Disorder Recovery Coach.
She shared the findings of a study done in the 1940s called "The Minnesota Starvation Experiment."
Read MoreHow a Young Woman Rescued Me from Diet Culture
in diet culture, dieting
Last year, a young woman from an impoverished country stayed with my husband and me for several weeks. She had no idea the impact she’d have on my relationship with food—as someone who’d struggled with disordered eating for decades as a result of lifelong exposure to diet culture. But nonetheless, God used her to heal my mind and set me free.
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Become Aware of the Words You Use
If the majority of your language, as it pertains to food and body size is: “I shouldn’t be eating this,” or “I need to be eating that,” or “I’m not supposed to be eating this,” or “I’m not allowed to have that,” or “I should weigh ___,” or “I blew it” or “I’ll start over” or “I was naughty”. . .you may have been conditioned by the external voices of diet culture instead of internal self-regulation.
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