Eating is good.
Food is good.
Take a deep breath. We’re all human. We need energy.
You need to eat to stay alive.
If you have a tummy and/or thick thighs you deserve to eat.
If you’re thin you deserve to eat.
If you have an eating disorder or bad body image you deserve to eat.
If you ate a lot yesterday you deserve to eat.
If you ate a lot today you deserve to eat.
If you’re hungry you need to eat.
If you’re not hungry but haven’t eaten in a while you need to eat.
No matter what, you need to eat.
Tag: disordered eating
Reminder!!
Eating is good.
Food is good.
Take a deep breath. We’re all human. We need energy.
You need to eat to stay alive.
If you have a tummy and/or thick thighs you deserve to eat.
If you’re thin you deserve to eat.
If you have an eating disorder or bad body image you deserve to eat.
If you ate a lot yesterday you deserve to eat.
If you ate a lot today you deserve to eat.
If you’re hungry you need to eat.
If you’re not hungry but haven’t eaten in a while you need to eat.
No matter what, you need to eat.
Obsessively trying to eat strictly healthy food and micromanaging all your meals is NOT healthy. Being absolutely terrified of certain foods because they are not 100% “clean” is NOT healthy. Feeling bad for enjoying food, regardless of its nutritional value, is NOT HEALTHY.
90% of eating disorders begin with a diet.
30% of all diets end in an eating disorder.
99% of dieters gain back all the weight and more.
Yo-yo dieting increases your chance of high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity, and early death.
Diets are dangerous. Say no to diet culture.
okay but we need to address how the fear-mongering around ‘obesity’ is absolutely linked to eating disorders. this all hurts fat people the most and we don’t need to put being fat in a category of all the bad things that can happen if you diet. fuck that.
people are sooo against eating disorders until they take away the names and switch it to “dieting” or “health tips”
like ohh you don’t support eating disorders and think they’re terribly tragic? then why are you constantly talking about how you eat too much? why do you separate foods into categories like “guilty pleasures” and “guilt free treats”? why do you insist that the ultimate healthy diet is eating less and working out more? why do you think you have to work out a lot more if you ate something “"bad”“
why are eating disorders only bad if we’re being hospitalized, but if we’re drastically losing weight and dont have a diagnosis we’re “doing great”
why did i have to hear more and more compliments about my weight loss than people concerned because i was getting weaker and becoming even more tired than usual? why did people make me want to go back to starving myself because i want the compliments that they gave me when i was rapidly losing weight?
eating disorders are only seen in a bad light when people are either dead or dying, but if we’re just getting skinnier it doesn’t matter how we lost the weight- we’re seen as a success story because we turned out thin and thats what really matters right? being thin? thats the only goddamn important thing in this world
Multiply this by a thousand if you’re fat.
Most of “dieting culture” is actually deeply rooted in orthorexia, an obsession with only eating “pure” and “healthy” foods in controlled amounts. It’s currently not classed as an eating disorder in itself, but rather a symptom of disordered eating behavior that goes hand in hand with anorexia or bulimia.
It’s an obsession with eating only “the right foods” or a perception of “healthy, pure foods” and having “cleanse” days and “detoxing” when you slip up and eat either the wrong food or too much of something. Now, tell me that doesn’t sound like something you might read under Cosmo’s “top ten tips to lose belly fat for summer”, or hell, literally any health vlogger on youtube with thousands of subscribers claiming they cured their depression/cancer by doing the banana cleanse, which yes, is actually a real thing. Don’t do it. Please. Love yourselves.
A UK based study (can’t find it right now but I will add it in if I can) on eating disorders noted that those most likely to suffer from the symptoms of orthorexia are people who think they are “just dieting” or trying to be really healthy by following popular “pure” food movements like veganism and paleo, but to unhealthy extremes. Usually because they’ve been suckered in by popular food vloggers who argue violently against the validity of the term, or the notion you can ever eat “too healthily”, despite the term being coined by Dr Steven Bratman back in 1996, a physician well known for being an advocate for safe, alternative medicines and therapies for better health—so not just a “western physician” ragging on “pure alternatives” like a lot of these diet frauds claim.
Eating healthily is not about deprivation. The human body needs fat, it needs carbohydrates, it needs salt, and a whole host of other things people will try to convince you you need to eat 0 of, in order to be healthy.
Most of you know I got super sick at the start of the year from an horrendous virus that meant I couldn’t eat solids for almost six weeks, I lost a lot of weight very quickly, over 20lbs. And while I’ve managed to gain some of that back as I’ve gradually been able to increase my food intake (I am now up to roughly 1200 calories a day which is still too low for my size and age, but much better than the 200 I was living on for over a month) I’m still suffering the side effects of being forced to eat nothing but organic oatmeal and bone broth for all those weeks, including but not limited to hair loss, broken nails, skin that looks like absolute shit, and not to even mention the mental and physical fatigue I’m still suffering from over six months later.
And don’t get me wrong, I was eating healthy foods, I was enduring the “detox” dream so many magazines and health vloggers rave about. But the truth of it is, healthy humans aren’t made to live on those things alone, (and that’s not actually how the body detoxes itself, but that’s another rant for another time)—regardless of how healthy those things are.
You need to eat.
You are allowed to eat.
Fuck these disordered ideas of societal norms. You can be healthy and happy and worthy, without being thin.
we need carbs and we need fats and we need proteins and honestly fuck diet culture for normalizing malnourishment
chamfrons-checques-n-champignons:
Celeb weight loss teas won’t give you a flatter belly or a firmer booty. They’ll give you diarrhea.
- If you’re a woman and have a Facebook and/or an Instagram account, you’ve come across someone celebrating their supposed weight loss due to some combination of the words “tea,” “tummy,” “flat,” “booty” and/or “fit.”
- That’s because someone in your life or your follow list, eager to figure out “the secret” to a leaner body, has decided to plunk down an exorbitant number of dollars for a product that promises to “detoxify your intestinal tract free of built-up toxins and reduce water weight,” claiming that these are “two of the main reasons why some days you look and feel five months pregnant.”
- These teas are often little more than an overpriced version of the exact same tea sold in your local grocery store (for 10% of what it sells for online), and that’s if you’re lucky. The ingredients — often a blend of black tea and green tea with something called either cassia or senna — are always the same, because those three ingredients are the key to the only actual effect of the tea, which is the water weight loss and extreme amounts of toilet time. Read more. (7/18/2017 3:10 PM)
it’s bad enough this crap is a scam but i’m really sick of people being PAID to promote this garbage on instagram and not disclosing. no check is worth lying to your audience. i wish more people would call this out and flag folks who don’t disclose sponsored posts.
So… it’s basically the same stuff my mom gets at the Chinese grocery store, but you pay more.
Anything that says ‘lose weight fast’ means ‘shit yourself and/or starve’. Everything.
Also, using laxatives for weight loss is literally disordered eating behavior. If you have so much anxiety about your physical appearance that you are using laxatives for weight loss, you likely have an eating disorder.
The first “toxin cleanse” I remember trying involved drinking water mixed with lemon, cayenne pepper, and a small amount of maple syrup. You weren’t supposed to eat at all, and you were supposed to drink a gallon of this stuff every day for a week. I saw it in a magazine targeted for teens, and I was probably 14 years old. It promised to make my skin glow, clarify my mind, and help me drop all that unnecessary fat I had developed as part of, you know, growing into an adult human.
It seems like some people think that since we no longer glorify super-skinny bodies *quite as much* as we did in the 80s-00s, we must be moving in a healthier direction. But we’ve just shifted to promoting lifestyles where average people (i.e., not professional athletes) are encouraged to spend hours at the gym every day, obsess over every ounce of fat lost or muscle gained, and drink tea that makes them shit out all their water weight. This lifestyle is aspirational.
We label this behavior as “healthy”, and tie that health to our morality – Your body is a temple and you need to honor your temple by keeping it “clean”, meaning free of “excess” fat, free of “bad food”, free of “toxins”. You need to “stay active and centered”, meaning hours of squats & running & yoga. If you don’t do those things, well no wonder you’re depressed, no wonder you’re sick, no wonder you can’t find love. If you’re “honoring your temple” and you’re still unhappy, you just need to try harder.
This is bulimia dressed up with pretty athlesiure wear and a good contour. Reject this shit.
we need carbs and we need fats and we need proteins and honestly fuck diet culture for normalizing malnourishment
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