The answer: There is no black and white 'fact or fiction' answer! (sorry, I know these answers are so annoying... but stay with me!).

When you start to learn about the anti-diet and body positivity worlds, it can be easy to start feeling bad if you want to change your body or lose some weight. You can feel like it doesn't align with those worlds, and that you can't truly be a part of them when you DON'T love your body the way it is, and you feel like that might never be possible for you.

 

One of the biggest misconceptions around food freedom and body acceptance is that it's unhealthy.

If I had a dollar for every time I saw someone in the Instagram comments whining about people 'promoting obesity' or saying that it's not healthy to be allowed to eat all foods, I'd be living on superyacht being fed grapes by an unnaturally attractive man.

I used to be a binge eater.

At the time, I felt like I was so alone- like I was the only person struggling with this problem. Now, I know better. Women are constantly telling me that they struggle with binge eating and that they don't know how to stop, so I wanted to share my story with you to make you feel less alone.

Intuitive eating is an evidence-based, weight inclusive model that honours both mental and physical health. It rejects the diet mentality and brings eating back to a form of self-care by incorporating instinct, emotion and rational thought into the eating process.

It was created by two dietitians, Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch, back in 1995, but has been brought into the spotlight in recent years now that people have started to discover that dieting is NOT the answer.

Whilst many people have moved away from saying that they're 'on a diet' in recent years due to negative connotations of the word, diets are still well and truly present in our society. They've become sneakier and are often rebranded as a 'lifestyle change', which makes them sound a lot less sinister.