You Can't Shame or Hate Yourself Healthy

The only success diet culture has right now is in creating shame. Contrary to popular belief, shame isn't a tool for change. It's a tool that keeps us stuck in our protective and our practised status quo. There are real financial costs to not taking care of ourselves. And there are such opportunity costs, those things that you may not be able to experience or take on because you're not healthy enough to. A found it quite heartbreaking at times, reading that so many people have been thinking about losing weight since they were 12 years old.