5 Tips For Face Diet Culture In The New Year
Once more, it's that time of year. It's that awful time of year again when everyone is talking about their resolutions to lose weight, how "terrible" they were during the holidays, and how they will make amends on January 1, 2023.
We'll be adopting a different approach: preparing our minds and bodies to face this diet palooza without fear or temptation, while the weight loss and fitness companies rub their hands together in anticipation of their annual bump in revenue.
Every single weight loss firm is now going to focus on your anxieties to get you to buy their product. So, here are some quick strategies to get ready for Weight Watchers to knock on your door and boost your confidence so you can show them the middle finger (0 points).
You Can Face Diet Culture In The New Year With These 5 Suggestions
First Anti-Diet Culture Tip: Read a Novel About Being Fat(tip #1)
"A complete game changer is reading (or listening to) fat-positive literature! The market for fat-positive books has had a positive surge over the past 10 years."
Need some self-assurance and a reminder that your body is ideal the way it is? The books The Body is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor, Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls by Jes Baker, and The Other F Word: A Celebration of the Fat & Fierce should all be read.
Reading or watching about overweight people having fun, going on adventures, and falling in love is incredibly motivating and serves as a constant reminder that YOU can do all of those things, too, without shedding a single pound.
Second Anti-Diet Culture Tip: purge your social media accounts(tip #2)
"If you spend more time on social media than you would like, raise your hand. Me too. I won't, however, advise you to remove the app or limit your screen time. To create a personal feed of people and ideas that motivate you, use social media."
It's time to change, though, if that feed makes you feel worthless, ugly, or jealous. So pay attention to how you're feeling the next time you're on social media!
Mute or unfollow someone if their before-and-after pictures make you uncomfortable with your own physique. Locate people that have similar physique types and lifestyles and follow them. Discover and subscribe to people who share your values and their opinions. Make sure it's all positive energy since your social media feed really affects how your day goes.
Diet-Hating Culture Set Health Objectives That Aren't Weight-Focused (tip #3).
Go on if you wish to enhance your physical and mental well-being. The start of the year is a terrific time to check in with yourself and make good adjustments because so many of us are out of balance. But, there is a tonne of health objectives that are unrelated to losing weight.
You might add the following health objectives to your list of resolutions:
- improving your sleep hygiene
- Making time each day for meditation
- once a week, being in nature
- Acquiring the services of a therapist you may rely on
- discovering a joyful kind of movement
Diet-Hating Culture Commit to Moving Your Body Out of Love as a Fourth Tip.
Let's be honest: it's alluring to think that you may lose weight and improve your social standing. So naturally, it becomes much less alluring if you understand that 95% of long-term attempts at weight loss fail.
Yet even so, we've all at some point joined a gym or purchased a piece of gear that we believed would help us get smaller bodies. No matter how loudly we yelled about a lifestyle change, at the core, we were moving our bodies out of hatred.
You have a challenge: throughout the upcoming year, move your body purely out of love. Are you going for a run because you believe it would be fun when you lace up those sneakers? Or are you exercising because you overindulged in cookies last night and feel the need to make up for it?
The energy you bring to a movement practice influences your attitude as well as your likelihood of participating in certain behaviors, thus intention
"Diet culture" is a set of beliefs and practices that place a high value on thinness and equate it with health and beauty, while promoting weight loss as a means of achieving these goals. It promotes a restrictive and often unhealthy relationship with food and exercise, leading to a range of negative outcomes, such as disordered eating patterns, poor body image, and low self-esteem."
"Face diet culture" refers to the pressure to conform to certain beauty standards for the face, such as having a slim face, sharp jawline, and high cheekbones. This pressure can manifest in various ways, including the use of facial exercises, cosmetic procedures, and makeup techniques designed to create the illusion of a more defined face."
Like diet culture, facing diet culture can have negative consequences on an individual's mental and physical health. It can lead to preoccupation with appearance, low self-esteem, and unhealthy behaviors in pursuit of a particular look. It can also perpetuate harmful stereotypes and discrimination based on appearance, particularly against individuals who do not fit into traditional beauty standards.
It is important to recognize and challenge both diet culture and face diet culture, and to promote body positivity and self-acceptance. This can be achieved by practicing intuitive eating, cultivating a positive body image, and advocating for more diverse and inclusive beauty standards.