Diet culture is one of the most successful forms of manipulation. The diets created and marketed by diet culture have very low success rates - yet we still do them. The diets created and marketed by diet culture have been proven to have negative long term affects on our bodies - yet we still do them. We have been manipulated and alienated into believing that weight loss is the solution, that food restriction is the solution, that over exercising is the solution. Guess what?! It is not the solution - it is just the product of anti-fatness, anti-Blackness, capitalism, & the patriarchy. The goal of diet culture is to teach us to hate our bodies because if we hate our bodies, we will continue to buy weight loss products. You deserve better. You deserve freedom. You deserve to eat freely, move freely, and live freely but unfortunately that won’t be the reality for all people, especially marginalized communities, until we dismantle the oppressive systems that uphold these hateful beliefs. Highly recommend reading Belly of the Beast by @dashaunlh to learn more about all of this!