#diet culture cw

[squidong]

I saw someone insisting ADHD never impacts anyone’s dietary habits, and now I’m curious what people actually experience.

This is about things like skipping meals because you don’t realize you’re hungry, or snacking even though you’re stuffed because you hope the food will give you the boost you need to get this one task finished.

[kaesaaurelia]

Somehow asking my coworkers about the salad bar at a restaurant near us (I do not like most salads because I hate lettuce, but they have other options! and I have some vitamin deficiencies I think more veggies would help with) became a coworker telling me to try a vitamin supplement that had no effect on me previously to cure my depression and low energy levels, and encouraging me to "cut out sugar." I did not know how to tell her how much of what we eat is broken down into glucose (all carbs, all sugars except artificial sweeteners, which your body can't process) but like. Pls just tell me about the spinach and the arugula. I love and appreciate arugula.

[foone]

A reddit post reminded me of a silly thing I did once: I calculated how long it would take to lose my entire body.

So I was dieting at the time and I was using a spreadsheet to track my weight loss and I decided to get nerdy with it and calculate average change per week and then I tried to add "time until I reach my target weight", so I added a cell for my target weight and set up some formulas and it gave me a date... Which seemed awfully far in the future? I wasn't that far from my goal and I was losing weight pretty quickly, so... What?

It turned out I typo'd the cell reference. It was using the cell NEXT TO the target weight cell, which was empty. And my spreadsheet was interpreting an empty cell as a zero.

So it was calculating how long it would be until my weight got down... To zero pounds (zero kilograms for you metric folks).

I'd calculated how long it would take me to lose ALL MY WEIGHT.

[quiet-admirer]

Being around other people for the holidays was a wild reminder of just how constantly some people have diet culture running through their minds. Like, my god, can we please have one moment pre-, during, and post-eating without comments on how "healthy" or"unhealthy" the food is and how "healthy" it is compared to the food earlier this week or later today and whether the food is "deserved" or not and whether it was too much food? 😮‍💨 So fucking glad I eliminated that shit from my brain.

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[measureyourlifeincake]

was talking to a customer about possibly getting a cookie we were selling and she was like "well it's a holiday so i feel like it's a cheat day :)" and i didn't know how to tell her that i neither believe in jesus nor dieting as a concept

[sorrowandpride]

I'm glad that we're criticizing the societies that promote ozempic use for cosmetic weight loss, but I'm honestly sick of people accusing anyone who's lost weight of using it.

A reminder that nobody owes anyone an explanation for their weight loss (or gain). Just because someone's losing weight, doesn't mean they're using appetite suppressants for cosmetic reasons. There are plenty of illnesses, circumstances, and health conditions that can result in weight loss: eating d1s0rders; mood disorders; gastrointestinal illnesses (IBS, IBD, gastritis, gastroparesis, etc.); medications (such as stimulants for ADHD treatment, chemotherapy drugs, levothyroxine for hypothyroidism, or even ozempic when used for type 2 diabetes and/or symptomatic obesity** treatment); poverty (it's not uncommon at all for people to skip meals to save money on groceries); etc.

Unless they're ill and trying to get a professional diagnosis, nobody needs to divulge their health history.

**Some people do have conditions that can be complicated by obesity and/or higher body mass (such as type 2 diabetes, endometriosis, Ehlers Danlos syndrome and hypermobility spectrum disorders, osteoarthritis, metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease, metabolic syndrome, various manifestations of cardiovascular disease, etc.), and I don't believe it's fatph0bic for them to desire or pursue (healthy and sustainable!!) weight loss as palliative or preventative treatment.

[exhaustedwerewolf]

smth feels especially enraging about all the weight loss app ads when I have been too ill to eat properly for weeks and am stressing about losing weight. like I hate them anyway but at the moment especially. I’m constantly so hungry and thinking extensively about everything I will eat when I’m better but eating is so many spoons and is such a gamble based on how I’ll feel after… I know it’s not a simple black and white thing but fuck you… I want a stack of pancakes with cream… I want to bake the matcha cake recipe I’ve been hanging onto… I want to make coconut mushroom soup… I want potato waffles with fake bacon and veggie burgers and fresh scones and chocolate covered strawberries… why deny yourself all of that if you can have it…

[mercuryholixx]

You know, I was talking to someone about the Lizzo allegations (NO that's not all I talk about now bear with me) and they said something along the lines of "It's funny how all the fans of Lizzo and her music are quickly cancelling her while everyone who was critical about her are the ones moving to defend her"

And I kinda didn't believe her but I don't exactly go on TikTok or Twitter so I don't know anything outside my Tumblr sphere. But it got me thinking if it was true... why? How? It didn't make any sense to me

But then it really clicked for me. Of fucking course everyone who fatshamed or otherwise unjustly critiqued Lizzo would doubt the allegations of SA or bodyshaming against her. Because that's what lies at the CORE of fatphobia, diet culture, all of it. Fatphobia, fat oppression, diet culture and medical care inequality for fat people are all symptoms of a society that inherently blames the victims of circumstances they don't see as ideal. Fatshaming is a more specific manifestation of victim-blaming for what is percieved (by society) as a personal failing. So of course the people who engaged in bodyshaming and attacking Lizzo simply for being a fat black woman would change target and cast doubt towards the people making these allegations against her. Of. Fucking. Course

[avoidcrow]

'This heart healthy recipe will give you all these nutrients and is packed with vitamins and minerals-'

okay does it taste good?

[captaintiny]

my mum has such a warped and negative view of her body, and mine as an extension of that, and it's really sad watching her starve herself and try fad diets, and to obsess over losing weight rather than enjoying herself. and it makes me feel like shit because it's not even like if i said i hated my body she'd tell me not to, or tell me I'm beautiful no matter what size i am. she'd literally tell me that if i lost weight I'd feel better about myself.

I genuinely don't remember a time in my whole life where she's spoken positively about herself. and no matter when she tells me i look nice, i always, always hear the caveat of "but you'd look nicer if you were skinny."

[lewvithur]

as much as i hate the idea of people claiming hunter was malnourished back in the emperor's coven (1. he spent most of his days training and reading you'd think even belos would be magnanimous enough to feed him for that and 2. he's not even that scrawny! look at him compared to luz! he's built) i can totally get the angst potential behind a different type of body image issue

while i don't believe the coven would underfeed him, even as punishment, i can imagine a pervasive control over diet and body image. you eat this for breakfast, this for lunch, this for dinner. no snacks, no dessert, every portion meticulously controlled. scouts need the right fuel to build those muscles

so for all his life hunter's only known this twisted take on diet culture, and how important it is to have an efficient body. but after he leaves belos, there's no structure anymore, and he eats intuitively for the first time. if he's hungry, he eats what he can get his hands on. plus there's no incentive to train anymore.

what scares him is months after belos has been defeated he looks in the mirror and sees that he's gaining weight that isn't muscle. this would never be tolerated back in the coven. what message would it send if the golden guard let himself fatten up while the scouts do everything? without an efficient body, he's just a brat who lacks discipline after all.

and it's one of those things he never unpacked. eating when he's hungry is healing him, and allowing himself to grow without hellish training is forgiving himself. but he can't see it that way, at least until he internalises that it's okay. he hasn't been the golden guard in a long time, and this is one of the last bits of that trauma he has to let go.

and he can do it. he has the love of good friends, good guardians, and someone special who never let her weight speak for her health.

he's not the golden guard anymore. he doesn't have to carry himself with his swagger. after all, he's just hunter.

[cassandraleeds]

A 90's childhood AuDHD memory: eight or nine years old. my mom taking me to work where she was a Weight Watchers leader, where I would go next door to get my little ND self a bottled frappuccino and a roll of mentos. And I would sit there in the corner as my mom rocked a pant suit and talked to a room about salad dressing on the side while I sucked all of the candy shell off of each mentos before I would chew it because that was the best way to do it.

[lisareadsthings]

This is among the greatest triumphs of anti-fatness: it stops us before we start. Its greatest victory isn’t diet industry sales or lives postponed just until I lose a few more pounds. It’s the belief that our bodies make us so worthless that we aren’t deserving of love, or even touch.

Aubrey Gordon, What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat

[dragontatoes]

remembering that calories are literally meant to be the measure of energy is one of the greatest fixes to diet culture, imo

"low calorie!!!" = low energy

"empty calories :(((" = empty energy??? = just plain energy

"cutting calories" = cutting energy

it's literally just a measure of how much energy the food lets you have. by no means a perfect or even particularly useful measurement, but it's still Just Energy

"pasta only fills you up with empty calories" have you considered that it also fills me with love

[lastoneout]

"sugar is poison" sugar is your body's preferred fuel choice and if you stop eating it entirely you will die

[deus3xmachinablog]

the algorithm saw fit to show me this ad and. i can’t imagine anything less likely to make me interested in ANY given product than showing it to me next to a cybertruck.