Diet Culture and Fat Phobia

Diet culture is essentially thinly-guised fat phobia and diet culture if we've developed an unhealthy relationship with food getting caught up in diet culture can become almost normal. How does diet culture maintain itself so strongly? Why does this trend or this social expectation that literally benefits no one except for big industry how did it become so powerful and influential? What do we do when we find ourselves caving into the expectation about needing to be thin? I want you to list five things that make you a good person that have nothing to do what you look like. Use these as your own personal affirmations that allow you to kind of ground yourself in what is important.