Diet Culture: 3 Reasons It’s Absolutely Okay To Lose Weight If You Want To

Diet culture tells you that you have to lose weight. Losing weight is an individual decision, your decision. If you want to lose weight and live in a body that feels comfortable to you, that’s nobody’s business but your own.

Please don’t fall into the trap of listening to people around you tell you what you should want for your life or what they want for your life. The moment you do that is the moment you start living for someone else. And you will never build trust with yourself that way. Ever.

Diet culture: the only questions that matter

The only 2 questions you need to ask yourself and answer are these:

1. What do YOU want?
2. What matters deeply to YOU?

Those answers are what you need to pursue if you want to trust yourself implicitly. And in order to succeed at anything, including weight loss, you need to trust your own self and your intuition.

How diet culture is detrimental to your well-being

I know there’s been a lot of talk about diet culture. I’ll agree that dieting is completely detrimental to your health and well-being. I did it for over 20 years and it not only made me feel shamed, humiliated, and inadequate, but it also never worked long-term. As soon as I stopped whatever diet I was on, I gained the weight back, usually plus more.

I absolutely agree that dieting and forcing yourself to listen to other people’s rules, guidelines, and/or principles while ignoring yourself in the process is one of the most detrimental things you can do to yourself.

The first thing I’ll say about diet culture from having lived it:

Don’t let anyone else tell you that you shouldn’t want to lose weight if you want to. They aren’t living in your body. You are. And if you aren’t comfortable in your own body, then you need to do something about it.

You’re in your body for life. You need to make peace with your body and peace with yourself. The only way to do that is to be honest with yourself about what you really want.

The second thing I’ll say about diet culture from having lived it:

You absolutely can lose weight and keep it off without dieting. You can do it simply by listening to your body and taking action based on what your body is telling you. I’ve lost over 160 pounds that way and kept it off for 9 years and counting simply by paying attention to my body cues.

3 reasons it’s okay to lose weight if you want to:

I just want you to know that wanting to lose weight is okay.

1. Living in a body that feels comfortable to you is okay.
2. Having the life you want for yourself is okay.
3. Being honest with yourself and telling yourself the truth is always, always, always okay and also absolutely necessary.

You need to believe all those things too too and give yourself permission to live them out in your life.

Don’t let diet culture sway your decisions

• Don’t let anyone else tell you what you want for your life, including what kind of body you want.
• Don’t let anyone else tell you what you should or should not do with your life, including what kind of body you should live in.

Listening to others at the expense of yourself is one of the most disempowering things you can ever do to yourself. To lose the weight naturally and keep it off, you need to empower yourself and you need to trust yourself.

The way to do both those things is to be honest with yourself always, and that includes about your desire to lose weight.

Get off the diet-go-round. Get on with your life.^®

Stop wishing, start doing.
Create your own weight loss before and after success story.

My weight loss transformation & how it can help you lose weight by eating intuitively

You absolutely can break the diet cycle. I got free. Your life can be that way too.

I made my own path because I needed to get myself out of the crazy-making behavior I was having around food. I needed:

• no more dieting.
• no more restrictive eating.
• no weighing and measuring food.
• no off-limit foods.
• no more judgment around food.
• no more trying to figure out healthy eating or just what healthy foods to eat.
• no more judging my self-worth based on the scale.
• no more you’re-not-doing-it-perfectly diet rules that were only fueling my constant thinking about and obsession with food.

I needed to stop: searching for weight loss tips, wondering how to lose belly fat fast or how to lose weight fast, worrying about how to eat healthy or finding healthy snacks for weight loss, coming up with yet another healthy eating plan, trying to have quick weight loss, or forcing myself onto yet another weight loss diet. What I needed instead was to find, out of all the weight loss programs out there, the best weight loss program for me. Turns out, the best way to lose weight was to find out what works for me and do that.

• I’ve lost 160+ pounds naturally by simply trusting myself and listening to my intuition (mindful eating and eating intuitively).
• I have maintained that weight loss for 9 years and counting by trusting myself and listening to my intuition (mindful eating and intuitive eating).
• I no longer have any eating disorders, including bulimia (bulimia nervosa) and binge eating disorder (compulsive overeating).
• I no longer have a fear of food.

Just imagine what you could be doing with your life if you’d just commit to having your own before and after weight loss success story. You could be: following your own dreams and reaching your own goals, cultivating your own passions, and making both your inner and outer worlds a more blissful and peaceful place.

I got that for my life. I want it for yours. I will teach you how.

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Let today be the day you make peace with your body and with food.

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