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Kelly's avatar

Loved this essay, and it's so true. I laughed out loud at, "People, we’ve lost the plot. No one is going to reach food freedom by eating things that make them shit themselves." I feel like we desperately need to teach our population better critical thinking skills, or put a bajillion asterisks after every post, because apparently many people can't seem to understand *when a message is not for them.* Truly, how skewed is the messaging out there that people who have food intolerances and allergies think they are restricting food in a bad way?? It boggles the mind.

This reminds me of an IG story I recently saw...the woman talked about how she was so concerned with being "body positive" that she minimized her growing lower abdomen for months. Because of the messaging that "women have lower body fat and that's normal" and "being concerned about weight gain is always bad." Turns out she had fibroids the size of a grapefruit, and actually, being concerned with a change in body shape/size is not necessarily disordered diet culture thinking!

It's crazy out there...we need the pendulum to swing back toward the middle, because this extreme doesn't seem to be serving anybody any better than the diet culture extreme is.

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Ellen's avatar

Really enjoyed this essay, thank you!!

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