Anti-Diet Culture Starter Pack
So, you’re ready to slay diet-culture and get back your life? Yay! I’m so glad you’re here for it. I recognize, though, that even if you’re logically on-board, getting going might be hard. Enter my anti-diet culture starter pack. Use some or all of the resources below to get going and take back your life RIGHT NOW.
Familiarize Yourself With the Science. Anti-diet, intuitive eating, and Health At Every Size (r) approaches get a lot of push back. You might find yourself fielding a lot of questions from friends or family members and you might find yourself doubting these perspectives at times. In these moments, it can be helpful to return to the empirical literature that started this revolution. The Association for Size Diversity and Health has a fact sheet that is a great place to start - it outlines much of the anti-diet and HAES argument and drops a footnote to an empirical reference after pretty much every sentence.
Actively Reject Diet-Culture. Download my FREE guide to internalizing diet-culture rejection for 5 actionable things you can do today to say, “tootleloo” to diet-culture.
Stay Engaged. Augment the media you consume with more anti-diet messaging to help combat all the other areas of your life where you’re constantly bombarded with diet-culture, fatphobia, and the like. I recommend:
Stay Informed. There are tons of resources out there to help you perpetually learn more, get you angry at diet-culture and all the ways it has messed with our lives, and to help you call out diet-culture when you see it. I recommend
Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating by Christy Harrison
Body Respect: What Conventional Health Books Get Wrong, Leave Out, and Just Plain Fail to Understand About Weight by Linda Bacon and Lucy Aphramor
The Intuitive Eating Workbook by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch
Intuitive Eating: A Revolutionary Anti-Diet Approach by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch
The F*ck-It Diet: Eating Should Be Easy by Caroline Dooner
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings
Where are you going to start. I love hearing from ya’ll - drop me an email at brianna@bodygrace.org