Re: Reject the Diet Mentality

[Guest guest]

Maybe we could make a game of it, like spotting license plates from different states when you're on a long trip. It could be a way for us to help ourselves be aware of this all-pervasive message in our culture if we share with each other things we spot that hadn't occurred to us before as being "diet mentality-speak." It might be fun and help us lighten up about how oppressive this stuff can feel sometimes.

Laurie

Reject the Diet Mentality

Ever since reading IE and their chapter about rejecting the diet mentality, I’ve been noticing how pervasive the diet mentality is in our society. It seems like everywhere I turn there is diet advice. People talk about losing weight, going on diets, which foods are bad and which are good. Since I’m so new to IE, it gets really hard sometimes.

Is anyone else facing this?