Diet Culture And Refusing To Change My Body

Diet culture has been on us since the beginning of January, however with the weather slowly warming up people are turning around and thinking oooh maybe I need to go on a diet, maybe I need to stop eating certain food groups or certain things. I’ve always felt the pressure when it comes to my body & the way I look, I mean what person hasn’t? I’m going to be talking about diet culture and refusing to change my body, I will not conform to pressure just because an industry says so.

As someone who has tried every diet out there, I’m refusing to let them get to me anymore. You see all these diet plan adverts, and I sit there and worry about the amount of people who buy into them.

Dieting took such a toll on me, I ended up hating my body more, and to be quite honest didn’t treat my body with the respect it deserves.

I am plus size, I’m not ashamed of it, if anything I’m proud. I’ve said in previous posts that automatically if you’re plus size people think you’re unhealthy and that is 100% not the case. I eat ridiculously healthy, I workout, I like the occasional cake or bit of chocolate – or in my case over the weekend it was an Easter egg, but I’m happy.

The idea that people would cut out certain food groups because they apparently make you fat is awful. Food is necessary for your body, I’m pretty sure that my body is made up of carbs, I’m not going to turn down pasta, or rice, or anything like that. They’re delicious!

When people say I’m getting beach body ready, I sit there and think, you’re already beach body ready, you have a body, you’re ready for the beach. It doesn’t matter if you have lumps, bumps, stretch marks, or anything like that, you’re beautiful! Rock your body.

You don’t need fad diets, you don’t need people telling you that you need to be a certain size, you don’t need people telling you that your body is wrong. There is no wrong way to have a body. When it comes to your body, as long as you are happy, that is all that matters. It shouldn’t matter what anyone else thinks.

When it comes to your body do what makes you happy. I refuse to conform to the fad diets that are out there that claim that you will lose so much weight, but it’s more important that you eat enough fruit and veg, make sure your body is getting all the nutrients it needs, and is looked after.

Be healthy, be happy, do what you want, these are more important than any fad diet. At the end of the day, you only get one body, treat it well. Don’t deny yourself anything, have things in moderation and remember that you’re beautiful inside and out.

If you want to lose weight, that is fab but it is a personal choice, but please don’t do any fad diets, don’t do it so you will look good in a swimming costume – you will look amazing regardless, do it the healthy way, eating healthy choice, everything in moderation and do it for the right reasons.

What are your thoughts? Let me know in the comments!

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