Resolutions and Diet Culture: Unfortunately They Go Hand In Hand

Resolutions are a great approach to making improvements in our health and our lives, but just because it’s a new year, does not mean you have to participate in the diet culture BS.
Resolutions are a great approach to making improvements in our health and our lives, but just because it’s a new year, does not mean you have to participate in the diet culture BS.
Recently we have discussed food rules and signs of disordered eating. Disordered eating is not to be confused with eating disorders. The main differentiation between the two is that eating disorders are clinically diagnosed using the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual…
It can be extremely hard to acknowledge our food rules and rituals as disordered, however with time, patience, and practice we can slowly begin to challenge our food rules one-by-one on our path to food freedom.
Getting Started with Intuitive Eating: Starting the Unlearning Process Introduction *Disclaimer: some of the topics covered in this blog post (white privilege, fatphobia) only skim the surface but are intended to raise awareness of a much larger systemic problem. These…
Getting Started with Intuitive Eating: Rejecting the Diet Mentality Introduction If you have been following us for a while now, you know that the Food Ease Team is all about learning to eat intuitively and ditching diet culture. Months back we…
A few weeks ago, we did a blog post on the effects of “yo-yo dieting” also known as weight cycling. Oftentimes after dieting, an individual will regain the weight that they have lost within the months/years that follow and a…
We know that there are many harmful and surprising effects of dieting that can occur; specifically when engaging in weight cycling/”yo-yo dieting”. However, we have yet to look closely at what ACTUALLY happens to our bodies when we decide to…
If you have been following us for a while you know that our brand Food Ease is all about finding food freedom through intuitive eating and ditching diet culture. We have discussed how harmful diet culture can be both mentally…
Satisfaction Not Swaps – Why “Healthy Swaps” are not Always so Healthy Introduction ***Disclaimer: The intention of this blog post is to shed light on why diet culture’s “healthy swaps” are not always so healthy and how to tell if…
Dietary Cacophony Introduction Now that’s a complicated phrase! So, what does Dietary Cacophony mean you might be wondering? The term was originally described by French sociologist Claude Fischler in 1993 as the confusing and often conflicting messages one reads or…