Content Warning: In this episode I will be referencing the COVID-19 pandemic, and a specific weight loss related conversation that led me to ditch dieting and pursue intuitive eating.
I recently made a TikTok video in which I said that the solution to more accessibility within clothing isn’t weight loss. In fact I said “I think we can all agree that the solution to more accessibility within clothing isn’t weight loss.”
No surprise that someone indeed did not agree 😏
This commenter shared their own experience of feeling unhappiness towards their body when they couldn’t find clothing they liked in their size, and described this as a “wake up call” that led to them pursuing weight loss.
And while there is a lot more I have to unpack here, which I will be doing in next weeks episode, More Than a Size: Erasure, Access & the Politics of Plus-Size Fashion, for now I want to dial in on this “wake up call” or defining moment.
I’m sure many of us can deeply resonate with that experience, hell, if you’d asked me a decade ago I would have told you the same thing. But, fast forward to now and I would tell you that my “wake up call”, that defining moment that led to change, looks very different.
During 2020, I kept seeing posts from people I had once respected in the health and fitness industry make their anti-fat bias really obvious. It started with conversation about ‘health’ which felt innocuous enough at the time, but quickly deviated into rants about the Oschmesity epidemic, and they used fear mongering to sell their coaching and programs.
Back then, I didn’t have the tools and resources I have now, because you better believe I’d be getting into arguments over on the zuck-book now, so I just unfollowed and unfriended 100s of people who had once been part of my online community. Folks I’d met in real life, some I’d considered to be friends, all of which seemed to believe I deserved to get sick.
That was where it started.
Little thoughts that perhaps I was tired of trying to make my body smaller, that perhaps there was actually another way I could live my life…and maybe that life would look different, but I’d be happier? Content? Satisfied?
In this bonus episode I’m sharing that “wake up call” or what I’m calling a defining moment that helped me ditch diets, figure out how to heal the relationship I had with myself, and led me here. To having these wonderfully important conversations with YOU dear listener every single week!
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