Diets

It is amazing how many diet and weight loss commercials are on tv. It drives me nuts...

Diets don't work. There is no scientific proof behind diets, because they aren't sustainable and don't work. They are designed to make us deprive ourselves and restrict our food. They create a diet mentality and food police that can lead to an eating disorder.

I am not blaming diets for my eating disorder or anyone else's, however they do not help.

We are all constantly bombarded with messages that the smaller we are the better we are. The more we lose the stronger we are. Losing weight requires "will power" and when the diet eventually fails we blame ourselves and our lack of will power. It's a vicious cycle.

I have been reading my intuitive eating book and it is pretty incredible and makes so much sense. But something like intuitive eating won't take off and become the new craze, because it's not a quick fix or some diet plan that forces guidelines in your life.

It gives you unconditional permission to eat. And not just to eat, but eat whatever it is you are wanting to eat. The only "rule" is to eat mindfully and be conscious in your eating experience. To slow yourself down while you are eating to properly listen to your hunger and fullness cues.

It is something that will be sustainable long term and something that will actually work.

We aren't all meant to be the same size. Something that makes people so beautiful is that we are all unique and different. How boring would it be if we were all the same?

Anyways. That's enough of a rant for today. I am just so sick of hearing and seeing all these messages that say we aren't beautiful or good enough the way we are...

You are beautiful