Show Notes

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Episode’s Key Points:

• Sarah Thompson joins us to break down this week’s letter!
• Internalized weight stigma and diet culture are challenging to let go of, but it’s necessary to find peace with food and our bodies.
• Fatphobia is SO entrenched in all of us, and it hurts everyone no matter our body size!
• Everyone is indoctrinated into diet culture, especially those of us who have been socialized as women.
• Family dynamics can play a big role in how we relate to food and our bodies, especially if as children we’re made to act in a parental role.
• Embracing food and body actions that stereotypically have ties to dieting and restriction can be scary, but we don’t have to engage with joyful movement and gentle nutrition in a disordered way! They can be nourishing actions, and they don’t have to belong to diet culture.
• Body changes can be triggering, and weight loss may make us feel like we’re betraying the fat-acceptance community. Body changes can also throw our body-acceptance process for a loop, making us have to start the process of embracing our new shape all over again. But body changes are inevitable!
• Make sure that you’re aware of your privilege, and acknowledge it! Make room for marginalized voices.
• We get to enjoy salads and movement without promising ourselves weight loss and without falling down a disordered rabbit hole.
• The more that we heal our relationship with food, the less we will feel that foods are “healthy” or “unhealthy.”
• There are people in larger bodies that have an active lifestyle! We DON’T have to be a small body to enjoy movement, and we don’t have to pursue movement for the sake of weight loss. Movement belongs to everyone!
• We’re all continually doing our own work and finding our own path.

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