#diet culture cw

[susiephone]

if someone tells you they've lost a huge amount of weight because of an illness or injury and your response is to commend them on the weight loss or say "well you look great!" or that you hope that after they get treatment for their health issue, they can keep the weight off, you're a fucking asshole and i hope a bird shits on your car

#diet culture #diet culture cw #health #fatphobia

[squidong]

I saw someone insisting ADHD never impacts anyone’s dietary habits, and now I’m curious what people actually experience.

This is about things like skipping meals because you don’t realize you’re hungry, or snacking even though you’re stuffed because you hope the food will give you the boost you need to get this one task finished.

#I’m the ‘compulsive snacker because I’m self medicating’ category #it’s ruined my relationship with food. m&ms feel like medicine now. #adhd #actuallyadhd #actually adhd #diet culture cw #food cw #polls

[foone]

A reddit post reminded me of a silly thing I did once: I calculated how long it would take to lose my entire body.

So I was dieting at the time and I was using a spreadsheet to track my weight loss and I decided to get nerdy with it and calculate average change per week and then I tried to add "time until I reach my target weight", so I added a cell for my target weight and set up some formulas and it gave me a date... Which seemed awfully far in the future? I wasn't that far from my goal and I was losing weight pretty quickly, so... What?

It turned out I typo'd the cell reference. It was using the cell NEXT TO the target weight cell, which was empty. And my spreadsheet was interpreting an empty cell as a zero.

So it was calculating how long it would be until my weight got down... To zero pounds (zero kilograms for you metric folks).

I'd calculated how long it would take me to lose ALL MY WEIGHT.

#dieting cw #Weight loss cw #Diet culture cw

[measureyourlifeincake]

was talking to a customer about possibly getting a cookie we were selling and she was like "well it's a holiday so i feel like it's a cheat day :)" and i didn't know how to tell her that i neither believe in jesus nor dieting as a concept

#i mean i believe that it is certainly a thing that people do #you know what i mean #tbh just generally sick of the diet culture shit i hear from customers every damn day #there was also a dude wearing a ''god bless israel'' tee and a BIG cross necklace which just.... ugh #life of bea #cashier confessional #diet culture cw #just in case

[skulandcrossbones]

i hate googling smoothie recipes and being bombarded with weight loss smoothies and smoothies for wrinkles and smoothies that will trick you into drinking kale and smoothies with no dairy or sugar or fat or calories or flavour or any joy at all and smoothies with 6 super foods that will make you want to die as you force yourself to choke it down miserably in the morning because you hate yourself and think depriving yourself of any form of enjoyment will fix you like jesus christ are y'all OKAY!!!!

#food cw #body image cw #diet culture cw #dont even bother interacting if you think health smoothies taste good or i'll put you on a permanent liquid diet

[mercuryholixx]

You know, I was talking to someone about the Lizzo allegations (NO that's not all I talk about now bear with me) and they said something along the lines of "It's funny how all the fans of Lizzo and her music are quickly cancelling her while everyone who was critical about her are the ones moving to defend her"

And I kinda didn't believe her but I don't exactly go on TikTok or Twitter so I don't know anything outside my Tumblr sphere. But it got me thinking if it was true... why? How? It didn't make any sense to me

But then it really clicked for me. Of fucking course everyone who fatshamed or otherwise unjustly critiqued Lizzo would doubt the allegations of SA or bodyshaming against her. Because that's what lies at the CORE of fatphobia, diet culture, all of it. Fatphobia, fat oppression, diet culture and medical care inequality for fat people are all symptoms of a society that inherently blames the victims of circumstances they don't see as ideal. Fatshaming is a more specific manifestation of victim-blaming for what is percieved (by society) as a personal failing. So of course the people who engaged in bodyshaming and attacking Lizzo simply for being a fat black woman would change target and cast doubt towards the people making these allegations against her. Of. Fucking. Course

#lizzo allegations #lizzo lawsuit #fatphobia cw #diet culture cw #fat activism #fat liberation #victim blaming #mercury talks #sa cw

[avoidcrow]

'This heart healthy recipe will give you all these nutrients and is packed with vitamins and minerals-'

okay does it taste good?

#I hate looking up recipes #they're all either like this or some sort of cheese crime #food cw #diet culture cw #? #mine

[captaintiny]

my mum has such a warped and negative view of her body, and mine as an extension of that, and it's really sad watching her starve herself and try fad diets, and to obsess over losing weight rather than enjoying herself. and it makes me feel like shit because it's not even like if i said i hated my body she'd tell me not to, or tell me I'm beautiful no matter what size i am. she'd literally tell me that if i lost weight I'd feel better about myself.

I genuinely don't remember a time in my whole life where she's spoken positively about herself. and no matter when she tells me i look nice, i always, always hear the caveat of "but you'd look nicer if you were skinny."

#fatphobia cw #diet culture cw #sigh. #this isn't even getting into her hatred of her wrinkles

[lewvithur]

as much as i hate the idea of people claiming hunter was malnourished back in the emperor's coven (1. he spent most of his days training and reading you'd think even belos would be magnanimous enough to feed him for that and 2. he's not even that scrawny! look at him compared to luz! he's built) i can totally get the angst potential behind a different type of body image issue

while i don't believe the coven would underfeed him, even as punishment, i can imagine a pervasive control over diet and body image. you eat this for breakfast, this for lunch, this for dinner. no snacks, no dessert, every portion meticulously controlled. scouts need the right fuel to build those muscles

so for all his life hunter's only known this twisted take on diet culture, and how important it is to have an efficient body. but after he leaves belos, there's no structure anymore, and he eats intuitively for the first time. if he's hungry, he eats what he can get his hands on. plus there's no incentive to train anymore.

what scares him is months after belos has been defeated he looks in the mirror and sees that he's gaining weight that isn't muscle. this would never be tolerated back in the coven. what message would it send if the golden guard let himself fatten up while the scouts do everything? without an efficient body, he's just a brat who lacks discipline after all.

and it's one of those things he never unpacked. eating when he's hungry is healing him, and allowing himself to grow without hellish training is forgiving himself. but he can't see it that way, at least until he internalises that it's okay. he hasn't been the golden guard in a long time, and this is one of the last bits of that trauma he has to let go.

and he can do it. he has the love of good friends, good guardians, and someone special who never let her weight speak for her health.

he's not the golden guard anymore. he doesn't have to carry himself with his swagger. after all, he's just hunter.

#bzz bzz #toh #toh hunter #body dysmorphia cw #diet culture cw #fuck it im tagging this i put effort into this ramble

[transjudas]

Just had a customer at work tell me which liquor is keto friendly so you can drink it and stick to your diet and I was just like 😐

#alcohol cw #diet culture cw

[carrot-gallery]

rant time i cannot STAND current diet culture fad trends that claim every regular ass food is secretly so bad for you and the reason for all your problems. you know what a healthy breakfast looks like for me? it’s two pieces of whole wheat toast with almond butter and banana slices on it. Because that’s an improvement on when i used to eat white toast with nutella and strawberries every morning. Because THAT was an improvement on eating fucking donuts and coffee cake for breakfast every goddamn day. So don’t come at me with some bullshit about how bread is so evil because of the carbs and bananas are full of sugar and almonds are so fatty shut the FUCK UP SHUT UP SHUT UP. IT IS FOOD. i am eating food and if you want to start every day with some fucking activated charcoal chia seed smoothie that a tiktok influencer sold you then knock yourself out that’s your body and your decision. Just leave the rest of us out of it

#rant #words #eating #food #diet culture #diet culture cw #food tw

[elizabethrobertajones]

Still thinking about how I rolled up to yoga (rehabilitative for people with Problems, largely MS, largely over 40, quite a few over 60, 100% women right now) on the first hot day that coincided with it, and as I walked up to the rest of the group one of the women cooed "oooh have you lost weight?" (I have no idea, I wasn't wearing a huge sweater for the first time they had seen me as such in 2+ years and I breast boobily in sweaters and become entirely cylindrical).

And I was startled and confused and said, "Oh, I don't know, I haven't weighed myself since I was a teenager?" (I'm 32 and starting a pandemic-era white streak in my hair)

And the WHOLE group went silent, dropped their side conversations, and stared at me like I was a creature in the zoo for about 10 seconds with no words, until I vaguely waffled, "I, uh, heard it was toxic...." (trailed off without finishing "to your sense of self and wellbeing" because they were just getting more bug eyed and that sentence may as well have been me making weird bloop bleep alien noises.)

Thankfully my friend there started up more different conversation with me, but. Now I'm just haunted by all these stares of 40-70 year old women who have never even conceptualised that someone gender presenting female might have gone through life not thinking about their weight, and their collective visible shock. Damage done to them over their lives by society and how it is completely normal to think about it all the time, notice it all the time in other people, talk about it (which they do for themselves) all the time.

I understand a lot of them are dieting around complicated health stuff but whenever I buy cake for lunch it's also clear that having to control their food is not something they're unused to and they simply have to adapt what they were ALREADY doing to what they now HAVE to do. They're always shocked and amused when I do it. My heart is kind of broken for them, because body positivity is such a recent moment that they really had no chance and even learning about it now they're so wired to feel that pain...

I don't even know what to do about it aside from keep on ordering cake for lunch. Maybe they will get brave enough to do it too?

#diet culture cw #weight loss cw #body talk cw #errrr what do people tag things as #disordered eating cw #the yoga place has vegan courgette chocolate cake I think it will probably be a good start XD #food cw #food mention cw

[cassandraleeds]

A 90's childhood AuDHD memory: eight or nine years old. my mom taking me to work where she was a Weight Watchers leader, where I would go next door to get my little ND self a bottled frappuccino and a roll of mentos. And I would sit there in the corner as my mom rocked a pant suit and talked to a room about salad dressing on the side while I sucked all of the candy shell off of each mentos before I would chew it because that was the best way to do it.

#all candy has a best way to eat it. we all know this. #diet culture cw #food cw #i was a mint fiend as a kid. not chocolate mint. just mint.

[corbinite]

"food pusher" this "programmed to finish our plate" that i am going to smash you with a hammer

#mine #diet culture cw #these ads are making me feel violent

[thejugheadparadox]

I hate coconut sugar I hate oat flour i hate protein powder I hate erythritol I hate xylitol i hate paleo keto low carb refined sugar free fucking whatever I hate flax eggs I hate coconut oil instead of butter I hate applesauce in cake for no fucking reason I hate "bagels" made out of yoghurt I hope you die I hope we both die etc

#I'm just so sick of succumbing to it tbh! #diet culture cw #ok to rb

[drumlincountry]

crazy to think thet there's people in the world today who think.... calories = bad.

Lots of em, i bet. Thank god i don't have to hear it.

#Me fein #diet culture cw #Calories cw #food cw #Like my 2 perspectives on food are 1. Personally i'm so tired and adhd that eating at all is a win rn. #2. Professionally i'm looking at the reckoning that all agriculture is facing with fuel prices and fertiliser shortages - whu #Which* WILL continue to get worse as climate chaos intensifies i might add #So it's like. The energy and LABOUR going into MAKING food is more relevant to more people than it has been for 50? 100? Years? #And yeah there are people who think. Calories are bad. #Ah i meant to say **perspectives on calories in food #But yeah. Weird.