How to ditch diet culture for good

Breaking free from diet culture can be difficult but it’s an important shift to make if you want to improve your relationship with yourself and with food. Here are some helpful steps that will enable you to ditch diet culture for good:

• Challenge unrealistic beauty and body standards.
• Realize that what you see on social media is often fake and highly edited.
• Shift your focus from your physical appearance and weight to your body’s functionality and performance.
• Practice intuitive eating and aim to avoid labeling foods as good or bad.
• Challenge negative self-talk and practice gratitude when possible.
• Find a form of exercise that you genuinely enjoy and one that doesn’t feel tedious to you.
• Surround yourself with supportive people who refrain from diet culture and have healthy relationships with food and exercise.