- 1. 5 Creators Fighting Diet Culture That Go Beyond Body Positivity
- (Living)
- ... where she helps Latinx people, particularly women, reclaim true physical and emotional wellness by leaving dieting behind, enjoying cultural foods without shame, embracing their natural bodies, and finding ...
- Created on 26 January 2023
- 2. 7 Self-Care Tips from Dolly Parton: How Our Favorite Backwoods Barbie Inspires Us to Bedazzle Our Lives
- (Entertainment)
- ... opened up about her hatred of dieting. She once admitted, “I tried every diet in the book. I tried some that weren’t in the book. I tried eating the book. It tasted better than most of the diets.” Especially ...
- Created on 15 December 2022
- 3. The 9-Day Wonder Diet Scarf Was The ’50's Accessory Designed To Keep Women From Scarfing Too Much Dow
- (Style)
- ... scarf, printed with all nine days’ worth of menus. “DIETING IS FUN when you wear this sensational new scarf with its design theme of the famous Harper’s Bazaar 9-Day Wonder Diet,” read a 1953 ad inIndependent ...
- Created on 31 October 2022
- 4. 5 Times Pretty Little Liars Was Problematic As Hell
- (TV)
- ... that “35-57% of adolescent girls engage in crash dieting, fasting, self-induced vomiting, diet pills, or laxatives”. When your target demographic is the same group most likely to suffer from disordered ...
- Created on 12 July 2022
- 5. Fat Activist Virgie Tovar's 5 Tips For Making This Your Summer of Body Positivity, Plus, Her New Guided Journa
- (Feminism)
- ... eat, and 2) your or others’ bodies—at all. See how it feels to take that time off. Trust me: this one will change your life. (Check out our article calling out toxic dieting app, NOOM.) 4) Double ...
- Created on 11 July 2022
- 6. Noom, The Toxic Weight-Loss App That Claims Not To Be A Dieting Program, Is Being Called Out On Twitter
- (Living)
- ... stops capitalizing on. But in recent years, as the anti-diet movement has gained real traction, many weight loss programs are rebranding in order to distance themselves from traditional “dieting” and appeal ...
- Created on 03 February 2022
- 7. Kate Winslet Refuses to Hide Her Body in Mare of Easttown
- (TV)
- ... dieting, exercise, plastic surgery, and Photoshop. This is perfectly admirable in its own right, and yet does it drive a narrative that ‘normal’ middle-aged bodies are unsightly, unacceptable even? Are ...
- Created on 03 June 2021
- 8. The Kardashians And Their False Promises
- (Feminism)
- ... results they believe to be possible, they could turn to unhealthy dieting, eating disorders, or worse. If you follow the Kardashians-Jenners or have younger relatives who do, I recommend you remove ...
- Created on 14 August 2020
- 9. A Body-Positive Guide To Staying Healthy During The Pandemic
- (Living)
- ... consuming that is fatphobic or encourages dieting and diet mentality. We live in a world where so much of what we’re exposed to when it comes to fat phobia is not in our control, especially outside of ...
- Created on 28 May 2020
- 10. The Racist Origins Of Fatphobia
- (Feminism)
- ... displacing their organs in the process. Woolson deemed dieting as a way to diminish women physically and metaphorically, reducing them to the traipsing nymphs of men’s sexist fantasies. Neither, however, ...
- Created on 10 October 2019
- 11. This 19th Century Empress's Beauty Routine Was Simply Too Muc
- (Feminism)
- ... inches and was constantly, and often unhealthily, dieting. Breakfast was usually quite minimal and some evening meals consisted of little more than a thin gravy. At other times, as Merkle writes: “She ...
- Created on 25 September 2019
- 12. Historically, Dieting Has Always Been The Worst
- (Living)
- Fun fact: dieting does not work. And yet, every year, millions of us get on that diet bandwagon, looking for a quick fix. This isn’t a modern thing – it’s a tale as old as time. So let’s look back down ...
- Created on 08 August 2019
- 13. Marie Kondo-ing My Closet Made Me Confront My Own Internalized Fatphobia
- (TV)
- I don’t remember when I realized I was fat. During my angst-ridden adolescent years, I certainly knew I was bigger than my peers, and I absolutely remember a particularly mortifying conversation ...
- Created on 05 April 2019
- 14. I Couldn't See What Dieting Cost Me Until I Gave It U
- (Feminism)
- I couldn’t see what dieting cost me until I stopped for good. No, I was never on a life-threatening diet. But I was on so many, for so long, that my life got hollowed as if by termites, and my grasp ...
- Created on 30 January 2019
- 15. In "I'll Be There For You," Kelsey Miller Dives Into The Complicated Cultural History Of "Frien
- (Books)
- ... first book was a memoir: 2016's Big Girl: How I Gave Up Dieting And Got A Life. In the introduction, and occasionally throughout the book, Miller shares her own experience with Friends: she was a casua ...
- Created on 30 October 2018
- 16. "Intermittent Fasting" Diets Glamorize Disordered Eatin
- (Feminism)
- ... the 15 years I spent dieting, I also learned how to completely distance myself from my natural intuition. I fought hunger and waged war against my bodily impulses. While these behaviors never morphed into ...
- Created on 02 October 2018
- 17. Portia de Rossi On Eating Disorder Recovery, Coming Out, And Falling In Love: From The BUST Archives
- (Entertainment)
- ... mixing crippling insecurity and grim determination. She began modeling at 12, and almost immediately, the cycle of dieting, binging, and purging began. At 15, she made up the name Portia de Rossi because ...
- Created on 30 August 2018
- 18. Virgie Tovar's "You Have The Right To Remain Fat" Shows The Importance Of Fat Activism Over Body Positivi
- (Books)
- ... ties to diet culture, in that it reinforces the common notion that you can be anything you set your mind to. Tovar writes, “I didn’t even skip a beat when I was asked to bootstrap with my weight. Dieting ...
- Created on 14 August 2018
- 19. Weight Watchers Is Offering Free Membership To Teens — And That’s a Problem.
- (Feminism)
- ... in my recovery. Weight Watchers may be “free” for young people, but it cost me years of food obsession, body shame, yo-yo dieting, disordered eating, and misery. I wish I could tell my teenage self then ...
- Created on 20 February 2018
- 20. The Real Story Of "Tokyo Rose
- (Living)
- ... Iva’s confession. And so in 1945, Iva was arrested. And you thought the worst thing Cosmo did was constant dieting tips. Iva was released without any charges a year later in 1946. (That's right, a year ...
- Created on 22 January 2018
