Radio H-E-A-L: Healing Radio with Raina Dawn
Jul 27, 2026 · 9 min · 6 segments
Diet culture is sneaky - here's some alternatives to the obsession. If you're looking for support because you feel emotionally heavy, energetically drained, disconnected from yourself, or simply…
Raina DawnHost
It actually just represents a symbol of balance anchored by foods that are as close to nature as possible.

I've heard this lots before from women who have fallen into the trap of dieting, but in a new way, in a rebranded, repackaged, sexy new way of guilting us into control and restriction.

While the old school dieting paradigm is on the decline, think Jenny Craig, Weight Watchers, those are way less popular now.

While maybe we've stopped doing weekly weigh-ins or counting our calories to a T, If you're dieting in any way, thoughts still remain and the restriction is still in play.

If you're saying things like, well, I'm only eating a little less calories than I used to, or I need to stick to my macros, otherwise you feel out of control, these behaviors always translate into unhealthy diet-like behaviors.

You might trick yourself, declare you're not dieting, that you're only watching your food for health reasons.

Because anytime you're manipulating food for the purpose of weight control, you are dieting.

And anytime you're attempting to hide this fact behind the guise of health, but there's any element of wanting to control your body's shape or size through food or less, make no mistake, it's a diet.

And I'm so sorry that diet culture has taught us that all we need to do is restrict rather than think about how a nourished, well-fed body actually means we're healthy.

It actually just represents a symbol of balance anchored by foods that are as close to nature as possible.

I've heard this lots before from women who have fallen into the trap of dieting, but in a new way, in a rebranded, repackaged, sexy new way of guilting us into control and restriction.

While the old school dieting paradigm is on the decline, think Jenny Craig, Weight Watchers, those are way less popular now.

While maybe we've stopped doing weekly weigh-ins or counting our calories to a T, If you're dieting in any way, thoughts still remain and the restriction is still in play.

If you're saying things like, well, I'm only eating a little less calories than I used to, or I need to stick to my macros, otherwise you feel out of control, these behaviors always translate into unhealthy diet-like behaviors.

You might trick yourself, declare you're not dieting, that you're only watching your food for health reasons.

Because anytime you're manipulating food for the purpose of weight control, you are dieting.

And anytime you're attempting to hide this fact behind the guise of health, but there's any element of wanting to control your body's shape or size through food or less, make no mistake, it's a diet.

And I'm so sorry that diet culture has taught us that all we need to do is restrict rather than think about how a nourished, well-fed body actually means we're healthy.
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