Diet culture

And thank you so much for being so honest that I could talk about, I think.

Women of a certain age did grow up with nothing feels as good as skinny feels, diet culture, almost being stripped of intuition to sell us back stuff.

So there has to be compassion there for people out there, men and women, that in a consumer society, we've kind of been told how to look and how to be rather than feeling good.

good within ourselves.

And letting pride start to become this This momentous force in your life is going to mean that whoever you are going to show up to say, you know, you do what I do, show up to calls, you're going to engage with your clients in an entirely different way when you know that you are taking the care of yourself and acting in the way that is right.

ultimately saying you value yourself and you're not going to judge and berate yourself anymore.

So I just wanted to make sure we touched on perfectionist all or nothing thinking, which comes from diet culture, because diets do not tell you how to navigate birthdays, how to deal with that week where it's like everyone in your family's birthday or what you're going to do when you've gone on holiday or what you're going to do when you've had a night where it all just went out the window.

And that's why they're so fundamentally flawed.

It's one of the most dramatic examples of an online fight, which is so much of what life is made up of today.

But it's also about diet culture, vigilante justice, and how we feel about all that.

We could not think of anyone better than Meredith Lynch to bring on to help us understand this and what we can learn from it.

Meredith's an interesting combination of investigator and social media personality, and she's made news herself, especially around her confrontation of fashion designer Rachel Zoe when she published some videos with customer complaints about Rachel Zoe's subscription box, Curateur.

There's merch.

There's intention bracelets that you can buy on the website that can be worn on a hand that will either undermine your intentions or honor them as it holds the fork, reach for the bread basket or dips into the candy dish.

So yeah, this is definitely diet culture.

And that's kind of who she is.

Would you guess that it was, like, normal wheat, normal cheese, normal, like...

which I think is so funny because I think it just shows how like diet culture shifts like early 90 or nineties, late nineties, early two thousands was very much like low calorie, low fat, like portion sizes, eating less.

And now I think there's a lot of diet culture focus on like ingredients and whole foods and clean eating.

Um, so yeah, I think it is really interesting and you know, there's all the 100 calorie packs and,

Yes.

Hello, everybody.

Welcome back to another episode of Dear Diet Culture.

Thank you so much for joining me today.

Hope you guys are having an amazing week so far.

I'm not kind of like... upset about it not gonna lie um I said I'm not just in case anybody I'm not upset about it like I just realized how quickly with the big kids going to college that life fucking moves and I'm just like okay maybe we just need to slow time down a little bit Okay, so yes, today we are chit-chatting about what we call the halo effect.

The halo, what's it called? The halo, yeah, the health halo effect essentially.

And I'm going to read my letter to Dear Diet Culture because this, I just, I am, I can't even go through the grocery store right now without being fucking irritated.

It's like, you just hear my letter.

Oh, absolutely.

You know, I lived inside diet culture for most of my adult life.

Decades, right? And I was really good at it.

I could follow any plan.

It was don't eat.

It was a very anorexic lifestyle.

time in our culture and then the 90s or low calorie everything don't eat fat fat is bad so that diet culture has really fed into what psychologically i mean i feel like myself and a lot of the people that i work with have been taught they can't eat fat because fat is bad it doesn't matter how much i talk about how good fat is whenever it's good fat in there it's programmed fat is bad yeah so how do we how do we talk through that and get through those things that have been kind of drilled into us over the years

Well, basically we have to realize that our bodies are asking for a different conversation.