The Culture Of It All
Your anti-diet sidekick and go-to resource as we explore what it really means to ditch diet culture whilst living life in a larger body. Your host, Melanie Knights will be sharing stories, busting diet culture myths, and breaking through the bullshit of the $72 billion diet industry.
Discussing topics such as anti-fatness, body liberation, body positivity, media representation, and intuitive eating. We will create a foundation for bodily autonomy, and take actionable steps to advocate for, and honour our own needs so that we can take up space, challenge weight stigma, and live a more confident, comfortable and joyful fat life!
The Culture Of It All
5 Ways To Practise Anti Diet Work with Self Compassion
In this episode, Melanie discusses five ways to practise anti-diet work with compassion. She emphasises the importance of applying kindness and thoughtfulness as we navigate this challenging work. Melanie shares her personal journey with diet culture and how she came to embrace anti-diet work. She explores the practice of looking for and celebrating diverse bodies, recognizing the difference between wants and needs, dressing safely in a body-positive way, setting boundaries, and practising self-compassion. In this part of the conversation, Melanie discusses the concept of dressing safely as a tool to check in with oneself and reduce social anxiety and hyper visibility. She also explores the importance of reading fat stories and how it can help in practising anti-diet work. Lastly, she talks about the challenging but crucial practice of self-advocacy and shares personal experiences of advocating for herself.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction: Practising Anti-Diet Work with Compassion
12:56 Embracing Diverse Bodies and Challenging Societal Norms
19:07 Seeing Bodies Through Our Own Gaze
21:55 Asking Ourselves What We Need
30:08 Dressing Safely in a Body-Positive Way
35:06 Setting Boundaries and Practising Self-Compassion
33:24 The Power of Reading Fat Stories
45:21 Practising Self-Advocacy
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