How To Love Your Body

We had a pretty controversial post on Instagram about this with lots and lots of comments so getting this topic on the podcast felt appropriate!  The reason is was so controversial is because we had a handful of dieters who couldn’t accept the fact that getting compliments for all their hard work is damaging - in a way they may have felt threatened that they wouldn’t be getting the external validation they so desperately need from the world to let them know - “hey you’re body is smaller, you are now worthy and enough.”    Of course this need for external validation was something that was learned from diet culture - dieters aren’t bad or wrong for wanting this validation - it’s just how diet culture has groomed us as humans - no one is bad or wrong but our intention of bringing up this topic is not to demean anyone - just share our opinions on this ….    So what’s so damaging about the phrase “Have you lost weight? You look so good!” ?   Most importantly - it perpetuates diet culture, it says “being thi