#tw diet culture

[cheeseburgersinparadise]

just a reminder that diet culture is rly gonna ramp up in the new year so please don’t let it make you think you’re not good enough or worthy or can’t be happy or aren’t attractive until you lose x amount of weight because actually. you can and you are and you will right now. body size means literally nothing when talking about happiness or ability to achieve goals or feel fulfilled in life. literally nothing. eat what you want and live your damn life how you please. tell anyone who says otherwise to eat shit.

#thanks #anti diet culture #tw weight loss #tw diet talk #tw diet culture

[lylahammar]

man I wish people would quit saying shit like this on my fat positive posts like literally just read the room and get help and keep your shit off my doorstep because that is the opposite of the point I'm making here

#I'm not entirely sure what to tag this with but I'll try my best #tw diet culture #tw weight loss #tw fatphobia #<- internalized at least #tw ed #I blocked this person instantly upon seeing that comment in my notifs so idk if this applies to them #but I get a weird amount of pro ana freaks interacting with my fat positive/fat liberation posts and it's sickening #at least they make it easy for me to block them lmfao #lyla's talking again

[atimeofyourlife]

Something sweet, too sweet to eat

written for @steddiemicrofic prompt: cake wc: 311 | rated: m | cw: eating disorders, toxic diet culture, non-graphic vomiting (self-inflicted) I've rated this m, just to be on the safe side because of the ed content, it's also why I've put it under the cut. If you may be triggered by eating disorders and toxic diet culture please, please use caution.

Steve stared down the piece of cake he’d been handed, trying to do the mental math of how many calories it contained, how long he’d have to exercise to burn it off. He’d tried to deny it, but the plate had been forced into his hands. His mother’s voice in his head was the thing making it so difficult.

‘Don’t you know just how many calories are in that, Steven?’ It was something he’d heard so many times growing up, every time he’d wanted something sweet. ‘You’re going to have to swim for an hour to make up for that,’ any time he ate something he wasn’t supposed to. ‘You can’t eat that, you’ll get fat,’ when he tried to deviate from the lean protein and boiled vegetable dinner plan. It had even reached ‘If you must have fruit, choose something with less sugar in it,’ at one point when he was twelve.

It all led to him being incredibly strict with his diet throughout high school. Avoiding the foods his mother deemed as too fattening, or having too much sugar. He passed off anything he couldn’t eat to his friends, Tommy and Carol never questioning it. The times he couldn’t avoid foods, on dates, or those dinners with Nancy, he’d lock himself in the bathroom until he’d brought it all up. Making himself sick being preferable to getting fat.

“You okay, Stevie?” Eddie appeared at his side, pulling him from his spiralling thoughts.

“I’m fine.”

“It’s just you’re staring at that cake like you’re trying to light it on fire.” Eddie joked. “You don’t have to eat it.”

“But everyone-”

“Screw everyone. Here.” Eddie took the plate from Steve. “Another piece of cake here, fight for it.”

“Thanks,” Steve murmured as it disappeared with the kids.

“You’ll get there one day. And I’ll be here every step of the way.”

#steve harrington #eddie munson #steddie #steddie fic #steve harrington x eddie munson #steve x eddie #steve harrington has bad parents #tw disordered eating #tw diet culture #atimeofyourwrites #steddiemicrofic #steddiemicroficaugust

[theflagscene]

I’m going to be honest, I’m not sure how I feel about Saint owning and BillyBabe being the spokesmen for a herbal detox drink, those things are dangerous and bad for your health. It causes diarrhea, constipation, dehydration, vomiting, shakes, heart palpitations, fainting, anxiety, depression, fatigue and other various issues. Detoxing is actually a myth, your body naturally flushes toxins out on the daily, all detox teas and drinks do is cause you to have terrible diarrhea which can lead to the rest of the issues I mentioned above. Plus it enforces disordered eating habits as well as just feeds into the toxic diet culture that is so rampant in the entertainment industry that actors and musicians are doing horrible life altering things to their bodies that could very well end their lives sooner rather than later. The ‘weight’ you lose on those teas isn’t any actual weight but simply water, which will cause your sodium levels to rise which will cause bloating and swelling causing you to actually seem heavier when stepping on a scale. Neither the loss of water weight nor the bloating from high sodium levels are actual genuine weight loss or gain, but simply your body mass fluctuating in a very (typically) natural way.

Saint has always been a great ally, as well as a passionate producer and actor. He’s pro sex, pro mental health, pro women and pro equality. But this new venture of his really disappoints me, I’m also disappointed that he dragged Billy and Babe into this as well. Especially since Babe has already gone on record saying that it’s difficult for him to put on muscle and weight, he trained as much and as hard as the rest of the actors on The Sign but was unable to keep any of that weight on. So him now showing off a thinning detox drink is just worrying, because people who might not have his type of metabolism will see him and think that they can get to his size by using these drinks when really, they can’t, he is thin simply because he happens to be thin. It’s like Billy being tall, you can’t help these things, it’s how their bodies are meant to be.

I dunno, this whole new Fitoxy thing gives me the ick. I honestly never thought I’d say this because I truly adore Saint, but I expected better from him.

#tw diet culture #tw ed diet #tw detoxing #fitoxy #saint suppapong #billy patchanon #babe tanatat #billybabe

[aphroditestummyrolls]

The weight loss ads this time of year really are just the most insidious fucking thing they are the water in the cracks of my brain eroding my resolve. It feels like every other word I hear is about a diet and every other image I see is a before and after. I feel like I’m on fire.

#the real recovery tag #tw food mention #tw weight loss #tw discussion of weight #tw diet culture #tw anorexia #tw eating disorder

[princess-vibes25]

Whenever someone tries to say something about how the body positivity movement is all about telling people being fat is a healthy lifestyle, I tell them about how I, at the ripe old age of 9 years old, wanted an eating disorder because I knew it could cause irreparable damage to your body so that you would have problems gaining weight even if you managed to recover. That’s right, I would rather having a potentially fatal mental and physical illness than live my life with the baby fat that I naturally had.

My first memory of hating my body was when I was either 4 or 5 and my mom got me one of those cute little kid bikinis for the Fourth of July with little Stars and Stripes all over it so that I could have fun in the blow-up pool in our backyard. However, looking at myself in the Disney princess vanity mirror, I wanted to cry. And even though I was so young and obviously I wasn’t going to look like a skinny model, I still immediately panicked and changed into a one-piece before hiding that kid bikini in the bottom of my drawer.

Today I am a mid-size young woman that still sometimes goes into a depression about my body, but I know that in the big picture, I have recovered greatly from those years of looking at myself in the mirror and telling myself that no one would ever love me (though sometimes that particular thought worms it’s way into my brain).

That is what the body positivity movement is. A way to tell little kids that hey, looking different than the starving models on the runways and in movies isn’t necessarily a bad thing. In fact, even just having bigger girls on the screen and not as jokes or awful caricatures would have made me feel so much better about myself.

#barbie #tw diet culture #tw ed diet #fatphobia #body positive #beauty standards #feminism

[theykilledcassandra]

watching skinny women talk about how fat they are girl,,,, if I speak

#sydposting #tw body image #tw diet culture

[mime-rodeo]

it's very telling that when a skinny person talks about the dangers of diet culture and their body image issues, people are immediately like "omg so true, you should be comfortable in your own body. you're so beautiful!" but when a fat person says the same thing, all of a sudden it's "well being obese shouldn't be idolized. you should eat less, it's for your own good."

#it sickens me how people use the “i'm just concerned” card for fatshaming #because i can assure you they are not concerned #they're just being an asshole #btw this isn't hate to skinny people just wanted to clarify that #tw bodyshaming #tw fatphobia #tw fat shaming #tw body image #tw diet culture

[arcofacatboy]

don’t let Greyson hear about this

#I feel like maybe I should explain this…. I will if asked #arc of a scythe meme #arc of a scythe #scythe #the toll #thunderhead #neal shusterman #aoas #gleanings #greyson tolliver #diet culture #tw diet culture

[icannotgetoverbirds]

god how the fuck do people go on diets, especially crash diets

i'm literally only forcing myself to be on a low-fat gluten-free diet out of medical necessity (the low-fat is temporary to prevent my gallbladder from sending me to the ER, the GF is permanent but due to a condition that makes me gluten intolerant) and it literally feels like a punishment, even though I know the worst of it is temporary and the rest is manageable otherwise with pleasant alternatives that might not be considered 'healthy' to people who do this shit on the regular to lose weight.

how fucked up on diet culture do you have to be to do this to yourself in an attempt to get a thinner body, especially when it doesn't even work 95% of the time? it's fucking miserable for me, how the fuck do they do it? i would ask how they do it without hating themselves but we already know the answer to that one. and like they can't even enjoy sugary or processed or 'unhealthy' food? how do you live like that?

#tw diet mention #tw weight loss mention #anti diet #anti diet culture #those tags may seem contradictory but remember i am only doing this out of medical necessity #and the medical necessity is not 'lose weight' it's 'keep your organs from fucking murdering you' #/nm that sounded way harsher than it needed to #byrd is fat #byrd chirps #body positivity #body positive #fat liberation #fat positivity #fat positive #fat acceptance #but yeah no i would literally rather have to deal with medical discrimination than eat like this for any significant amount of time #bc like. i already do anyways #it sucks shit but lbr here eating like this wouldn't solve the problem even if it did make me thin #it'd just make it not my problem at the cost of extensive misery if that #tw diet culture #diet culture

[softness-and-shattering]

You know what else is an accessibility problem, especially on a medical website?

When all the ad space has gone to the same place ADVERTISING INTERMITTENT FASTING SCHEDULES.

Bet they were 'just' the highest bidder and the site people have no idea. Yeah lets put detailed, common, eating disorder triggers unavoidably in and around medical information! And I mean *detailed*.

Advertising is a scourge and it jeedsto be scourged.

#tw ed #tw eating disorder #eating disorder #tw intermittent fasting #accessibility #tw capitalism #tw diet culture #theres so much diet culture and fatphobia and ableism already baked into medicale quote unquote knowledge #there doesnt need to be more in the advertising!! #tw ableism #mine

[soong-type-notinuse]

something i don't see talked about in either fat communities or ND communities is picky eating, but in a way where you happen to hate a lot of the food deemed "healthy" and "good" and like a lot of the food deemed "bad" or "unhealthy".

most ND people with sensory sensitivity around food who i see talk about this are thin with a more "acceptable" way of picky eating. fuck, even with literal ARFID it's believed that you cannot be fat and have ARFID. because for some reason, when you're a picky eater, you don't "pick" the "bad" food. the visible picky eater is thin.

and in fat communities, it's still all that "i'm fat, but exercise and eat healthily, so i can't help my fatness". it's full of people who wanna be "good fats" and not many people who eat intuitively or are picky eaters. the visible fat person eats a healthy diet.

not to forget that our thin-and-NT-dominant society thinks i'm making up my sensory sensitivity (aka disability) as an excuse to not "do anything about it", while some of them preach that fatness because of disability is "acceptable", but neurodivergence is not seen as a real disability.

so where does that leave fat picky eaters? i still struggle with internalised diet culture and antifatness. i still beat myself up over the food i eat or don't eat, despite my sensory sensitivities making it impossible to eat a lot of "good" food, despite my senses seeking for "bad" food. i still habe internalised shame of possibly having "caused" my fatness. i still habe internalised the idea that my disability is an "excuse" for me to stay fat. when fat is an okay thing to be in all cases.

people, including those affected because internalised anything fucking sucks, need to realise that fat picky eaters aren't lying about their sensitivity and that fat people with "unhealthy" diets (even those that aren't picky eaters)deserve just as much respect and there is nothing wrong with being either.

it's an intersection between fatness and neurodivergence that i never ever see talked about because it's just seen as "harming either cause".

#fat #neurodivergence #neurodivergent #autistic #autism #actually autistic #AuDHD #actually audhd #ADHD #disabled #disability #fat acceptance #fat liberation #fat pride #tw diet culture #cw diet culture #cw food #tw food

[homeofhousechickens]

Apparently celery juice is this big thing in diet culture these past few years. People will peddle anything as a miracle cure. "Drinking this juice you may cure your bloating, gas, constipation, hormones, acne, just drink it!"

These claims typically have no actual science to back it up. After watching so many of my friends and myself suffer due to the influence of diet culture i cant help but feel contempt for stuff like this even if its harmless as celery because most of the time it really isnt something as harmless as vegetable juice. The language of this sort of stuff usually tries to create insecurity and offer fake solutions and in this example its celery juice, but a lot of times its something like weight loss powder or protein coffee. "If you just followed this regime or consumed this product you wouldnt have these problems!" It leaves a bad taste in my mouth and it isnt celery.

Anyway did you guys know food rots in your stomach?/s lmao so much of this stuff is just so unscientific and not supported by basic physiology but how its worded can really get to people. "Cure" is a hefty word that shouldn't be thrown around so casually.

Anyway i stumbled on this by accident because i was just wondering why celery helps my stomach sometimes when it gets upset at night. Its what I figured- just much needed fiber and water.

Im hiding the post under the cut because i dont want to trigger any of my followers who struggle with this sort of stuff. If your not bothered though be prepared for some bewildering writing. I think the whole purpose of this article was to sell actually juicer because apparently blending celery makes the "mysterious benefits~" disappear unless you juice them with the sponsered juicer lol

#tw diet culture #tw fad diet #tw disordered eating

[cartoonscientist]

people are always saying “eat less, move more” but tbh I think “eat more, move more” would be better advice for most people in 2023

I see so many people online thinking 1200 calories per day is enough for an active adult, and then complaining about how tired and depressed they are and how hard it is to eat healthy; they also talk about how exercise is pointless according to some article they read on yahoo

#tw diet culture #tw dieting #cw food #cw body talk #cw calories

[frankensteinsmonstr]

listening to my mom complain about how her ‘shot for weight loss’ is surprise surprise fucking with her health is so genuinely terrifying. and she’s getting on my ass about what food i buy with my money Hey girl. how about fuck right off, you’re not allowed to do that anymore. this whole ordeal is toying with me, like i do NOT want to relapse ontop of being suicidal those two do not work well together.

#like i’m so genuinely serious. #stop it right now #keep your diet stuff to yourself i am literally underweight and on the verge of passing out any time i stand up #it is never ever okay to do this to someone without yknow. CONSENT first #‘just saying you need to eat something that will give you more energy’ that’s a nasty way of saying you want to control what i eat #like i’m so serious. No. #tw diet #tw diet talk #tw diet culture #tw ed discussion