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That one weight loss ad that basically says that your family giving you things to eat is bad and why you’re fat. Like fuck off
I was just shown another stupid Noom ad that claims losing weight is "psychological" and that it's bad to finish all the food you put on your plate. Somehow this still isn't as bad as the Noom ads that said "People who show you love by making you food like this Latina grandmother are 'food pushers'" and "Eating a unique food you'll never get to have again on vacation is 'food FOMO' and baaaad!" God, fuck every weight loss company and product but especially fuck Noom
If you're on TikTok or Instagram and you come across a video of someone standing in a grocery store waving packages around and dramatically telling you how its super bad evil gross fake food, just keep scrolling. Please. I promise you. Just scroll past it.
I hate photos of weight loss where people are holding their breath, sucking in their stomachs and posing like contortionists to make themselves look like they've lost considerably more than they have or that their whole body has been re-comped.
Everyone else is praising the "results" and "miraculous change" while I'm sat there like "please breathe and unclench before you get a cramp."
This year we're not doing weight loss resolutions. No new fad diets or miracle workout programs, no magic pills, and definitely no bariatric surgeries. This year we're listening to our bodies, and more importantly we're loving our bodies. We do not need to be smaller to be worthy of that.
Okay so. Yes, fat people are awesome and attractive and deserve the moon. That's not a question. But.
Can we stop talking about people who are mentally ill like their lives and pain and journeys are an argument?
It reminds me so much of that atheist memes Instagram page I used to follow when I was 11, that would always compare the symptoms of religious trauma and OCD (which is true and should be talked about), only to laugh at how "religious fanaticism is clearly mentally ill" and "you guys have got issues".
I was the EDed 15 year old you're talking about. And you're right, it wasn't fun. This isn't a gotcha. I keep living my life with relapse just behind the corner. Also, going to the gym on the regular and eating lots of protein in the hopes of getting buff is more or less my only path in which I have a good chance of ever feeling satisfied with my body without starving, so seeing people calling it "basically just ED light" is so demotivating and honestly just makes me want to give up on recovery. Can you guys PLEASE stop weaponizing the suffering of me and those like me in order to make a point about how it's bad that people don't get to live their lives without society telling them to be obsessed with how their body looks? Thanks.
People who think fat people are inherently unattractive are so fucking deranged. You can accept that there are people out here riding dragon dildos like the cops are behind them but a human being with a statistically above average amount of adipose tissue is out of the question????
There are fat girls in this world who have men screaming crying throwing up, begging for the pussy, on their front yards in the rain with a boombox, and you think you're better than them because you drink the laxatives you sell on tiktok to 15 year olds with EDs like water and act like salad dressing is literal asbestos???
I'll guarantee you right now there's a fat man rocking his girlfriend's bed while she's screaming his name like a prayer and has the sheets in a deathgrip and another one with a twink between his legs holding onto his big ass thighs like a rollercoaster lap bar, and here your goofy ass is in the gym, flexing in the mirror for approval from strangers and living off chalk-flavored bricks and bone marrow until your blood is the consistency of chili flakes and thinking you're smart and they're dumb.
There is something seriously wrong with you all and you need DEEP introspection to fix it.
Something I’ve thought of recently is that despite being used as a joke most of the time, the ‘woman not ordering food and then stealing her partners food’ trope definitely has links to the way society treats women and girls when it comes to food aka misogyny. From a very young age girls are told to watch their figure, to watch what they eat, to be delicate, to be polite, to not be a burden, so it then makes sense that when out on dates it’s hardwired into woman’s very beings that if their going to eat infront of a guy that she needs to eat something healthy so that he doesn’t think she’s fat, that she should get something cheap so she is t a burden, that she should get something that society deems feminine. But that means that she ends up ordering something that isn’t really filling or satisfying so she’s more likely to try to steal a few chips. And even with a man that she is super comfortable with, who she knows doesn’t care about all the things society has told her he should care about there is still that instinct to cater to what society says he should care about. Idk if this sounds like a reach but it just occurred to me that we constantly give women shit for acting the way that society has trained them and forced them to act because of fragile male egos.
Sending all the love to fat people with anorexia. Sending all the love to fat people with bulimia. Your eating disorder is just as serious as it would be in a thin person, and you deserve just as much support and help in your recovery. I know you don't get that experience when you get sick, and you definitely don't get to experience those positive healing vibes when you choose recovery and stop losing weight. Just know that I see you, that I know it's not fair, and that I believe in your immense worth and the worth of your recovery journey.
“Oh yeah that’s just my mum. She has 90s diet culture brainrot. It’s fine.”
*I give the camera an exhausted stare, indicating this it is not fine, and is in actual fact the bane of my existence*
Reminder:
The number on the weight scale is not a reliable indicator of one's health.
Your metabolic numbers (blood sugar, blood pressure, etc.) and body function/ability are.
Even More Important, Bonus Reminder!!!:
PEOPLE WITH MEDICAL ISSUES AND ILLNESSES ARE ALLOWED TO EXIST, ALLOWED TO BE CARED FOR, AND ALLOWED TO HAVE LIVES.
A "CONCERN" FOR "HEALTH" IS NOT AN EXCUSE FOR YOU TO BE A EUGENICIST PIECE OF SHIT.
i was reading the recipe suggestions on some of the cans of mackerel i have in my cupboard, and I've noticed that on all of the recipe suggestions for pasta, seafood, anything really say "try this for a low-calorie, low carb, low fat, low sugar dinner". you. need those things when it comes to be mealtime. calories are a measure of how much "energy" you can burn, not how much weight you will gain from eating the food. carbohydrates get broken down into starches, sugars, and fibers, which are all necessary for you to function.
your brain & body operate primarily off of fats, sugars, and proteins, but i've noticed that protein is the only thing we push as absolutely necessary, which just isn't true. whenever you idle and not in motion, your body has nothing to do with the extra protein you're bringing in. it will be stored as extra fat if you do not give that protein a reason to build muscle tissue instead.
your brain consumes 20% or more of the sugar you take into your body- our brains NEED glucose, you literally need sugar to think. if you feel depressed and like you're sluggish reacting to things, thinking, remembering things, and other mental processes, if you are the kind of person who refuses to eat any sugar at all due to wanting to be skinny, you are doing your brain a huge disservice:
i can't stand the hatred towards dietary fats, because it's causing so many people to be outright miserable or even sick. you need fats to function. they are an excellent source of energy and are literally required for you to be able to move, think, and combat disease. they are not this icky thing that you need to avoid at all costs. fats are extremely important for brain development, as well as brain function, and even immune system function:
also for many people, 2,000 calories or less per day is nowhere near enough. your brain actively consumes calories, fats and sugars while you are awake, no matter what you are doing:
i sincerely refuse to believe that if JUST YOUR BRAIN ALONE consumes somewhere in the ballpark of 400-500 calories just for being awake and active that we can only survive off of 2,000 calories a day. capitalism, diet culture and fat shaming forcing us to starve ourselves of vital nutrients so we are weak and too tired to fight back against the bullshit we face every day. food is important.
food isn't just to satiate the feeling of an empty stomach. it is the ONLY way you get vital fuel in order to keep moving, living, thinking, and breathing. vitamins and minerals are NOT the only vital aspects of food. you're not meant to restrict how many nutrients you get at FUCKING MEAL TIMES. YOU NEED FUEL. PLEASE FUEL YOUR BODY AND BRAIN. A CONVENTIONALLY ATTRACTIVE BODY ISN'T WORTH SUFFERING AND LIVING YOUR WORST LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
hey this is a really really really amazing video and it goes over like all the talking points of societal fatphobia and why it's all bullshit and rooted in racism and ableism and a bunch of other stuff. It covers SO many different topics relating to fatness/fatphobia and Mickey Atkins put a ton of work into it (plus they're a licensed clinician and a fat person who knows what she's talking about). If you have a few hours and you wanna put somethin on in the background, please do so with this video!!
Vanilla on top!!<3
This makes me so incredibly angry. I remember being a child and being ashamed of my body. I was told at 5 years old (by my mother and grandmother) that I was too fat for a bikini. I remember hiding under the table to sneak food. I remember aunts making (negative)comments about my body when I was a kid. I remember already thinking something was wrong with my body at a young age. I remember in high school my so called “best friend “ ( no not Mindy) telling me that guys don’t like girls who are as big as me. I remember trying to make myself throw up because I was ashamed of how much I ate. I remember being told the after school snacks at my grandparents house weren’t for me because I “didn’t need them” I didn’t put a lot of things together about the sexual abuse at the hands of my uncle and my eating together until an adult but even if that wasn’t the case-I still should not have been shamed for my body and should have been allowed to learn to make choices for myself without being shamed by members of my family. (For the record I have a different body type than the family members who were making comments about me-they are all about 5 feet tall as adults and I’m 5′7 and I was a naturally chubby kid to begin with-and their comments only served to make me feel bad about myself-they also made negative comments about my mother-who was “bigger than them-and by “bigger”-she had big boobs and a curvier figure but was hardly the definition of “fat” but since she wasn’t “stick thin” like them-that’s what they called her (actually they called her hippo hips and thunder thighs)-and I heard those comments too and I remember crying about it. I’m not making an excuse for her-but I know my mother took out her insecurities on me so I got a double whammy. And I worry that kids on this new app will have to deal with this too and I know how awful that is.
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This week in Fucked Up Diet Culture News: @ww launched a weight loss app aimed at children as young as 8-years-old. Nope, not a typo, Weight Watchers are really out here recruiting those lifetime members before they’ve even left the playground. The app teaches kids to categorise foods into a traffic light system (aka a slightly more colourful way of splitting food into moral categories of “good” and “bad”), & track all the greens, yellows and reds they eat a day. It also shows them progress charts, as well as “inspiring” before/after weight loss photos of other kids - one shows Vanessa, age 8, with a quote from her mother about how impressive her willpower is, she says no to foods she used to love and never breaks a goal! It breaks my fucking heart that WW doesn’t know how dangerous it is to praise that kind of all-or-nothing restriction in anyone, let alone a child. But the thing is, they do know. They know that around 95% of diets fail (even when they’re packaged as lifestyle changes or traffic light systems). They know dieting is the biggest contributing factor to the development of eating disorders. They know children’s bodies are supposed to grow and change. And if they cared about the mental well-being of kids everywhere, they’d know how dangerous apps like this are. But hey, all of that is hard to hold onto when you also know that $69 a month adds the fuck up, am I right?
So what can we do? Speak up. Educate ourselves on diet culture, intuitive eating and how to actually promote size inclusive health for children (@laurathomasphd@chr1styharrison @evelyntriboleare a good place to start). Sign the petition in my stories to have the app shut down. Fiercely protect our kids - teach them that their bodies (and other people’s) are worthy of love & respect & nourishment at any size, that food doesn’t need to be feared, that movement should be for joy, not repentance, and that they are so much more valuable than anything the outside could ever show. Oh, and for the record @ww, you can go fuck yourself forwards, backwards and sideways. Feel free to categorise the 3 ways into a traffic light system if it helps. 💜💙💚🌈☀️
Somebody needs to give me cat advice, because my cat has been infected by toxic diet culture and I don't understand anything 😭!
To summarise, this creature of mine, sweet as she is, has been refusing to eat her food properly for going on two weeks now. Dry food? A few crunches then a few sips of water and move on with life. Wet food from a packet? Drink the liquid parts and leaves the chunks till the ants find them and maybe, MAYBE she'll eat them then. Wet cat food of my mother's own recipe that our old cat and fosters and the neighbours cat and the street cats all loved! Lol nope.
This liquid dieting is weird right? This isn't normal for a not yet one year old Indian stray turned housecat right?? Right??