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”You are inspiring.”
Please excuse me while I go cry 😭❤️
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The most beautiful words by @nikita_gill

Wow! Isn't it so interesting how diet tips are constantly changing? 🤔
👉🏼 Sugar was good! Now it's bad!
👉🏼 Carbs were good since the beginning of humanity! And now they’re bad?
👉🏼 Fruits are good! But only in moderation!
👉🏼 Gluten was bad! But someone told me it's ok now?
Agh I can't keep up! 😩
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No wonder the majority of people are confused about what their families should and shouldn't eat when they're hungry! Because since the beginning of food marketing, brands have spent a lot of money advertised products as miracle cure-alls; turning people out of touch with their natural hunger cues by convincing us we're virtuous if we eat "good" food, and satanists if we eat "bad" food. More recently this dialogue has become "clean/dirty" eating, but it's still the same old diet culture unicorn repackaged with a fancy new bow 🦄 🎀
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The reason I'm sharing this vintage ad is not to demonize sugar. I'm not a dietitian and there’s many wonderful people out there who can do a better job of explaining sugar's affects on the body than I can 🤗
I'm sharing this to raise awareness about the absolute absurdity of diet culture! To point out the endless, ridiculous, and sometimes unhealthy or dangerous loops people go through to lose weight.
I'm also sharing this because it's important to remember that if you're confused about what you "should" be feeding your family, that confusion is probably rooted in fear mongering, bogus science, and big business 💰
And when I say big business, I mean it! Did you know it's estimated the food & beverage industries spend over $10 Billion US a year on advertising? So your food confusion? It’s not by accident!
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This is why it's so important to not buy into fad diets or follow bogus dieting and anti-aging food tips from the cover of a magazine. You and your family are worth so much more than your weight. You and your children deserve to eat foods that make you feel good! And you deserve to be happy!
Remember that diet culture is a goalpost that keeps moving, and you’re allowed to become the referee of your own game 💪🏼❤️
xx-Dana

DON’T BE FOOLED BY NEW YEARS DIET ADS!!
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It’s still the same toxic beauty ideals being sold over and over again. The repackaging looks nice, but diet culture is basically just a unicorn trying to stab you.
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Remember:
👉🏼 95% of diets fail
👉🏼 The diet industry makes $66 Billion US dollars a year off your insecurities
👉🏼 You can’t tell someone’s health based on how they look
👉🏼 Thinness doesn’t equal healthy
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Sending love to everyone feeling the body blues as we get inundated with false science and New Years body shame. Stay strong friends...you can get through this, I believe in you!! ❤️❤️
xx-Dana

Well this is it! My final post of 2018! 🎉 And what a year it’s been...
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I stopped doing New Years resolutions after countless years of setting myself up for failure by not seeing my resolutions through to the end. So instead of resolutions, here’s my 3 personal growth goals for 2019!
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👉🏼 1. Work through fear.
So many times in my life, when I get scared, I give up, I avoid, I run away, or I stop trying. This year I’m going to work hard to listen to my fears, validate that they’re coming from a real place that’s trying to keep me safe, find out what my fear is trying to tell me, and remind myself that I lived through the last time I was scared, and I will make it through safely this time as well!
👉🏼 2. Lead with love.
I am working on softening. On embracing others with empathy. On meeting people where they’re at. And on holding space for someone’s pain and trauma. I try to remember what it was like to be so wrapped up in diet culture that love and kindness for myself and for others felt a billion miles away. I remind myself each day that we are all victims of diet culture, and with each new interaction I have with people, I want to lead with love. I want to say the words I wish I heard when I was young. I want to be the person I needed as a child.
👉🏼 3. Remember it’s ok to be disliked.
On paper, we all know that being disliked is a part of human nature. As children we’re told it builds character and keeps us creative. And in school were told all the great leaders and rebels of the past had folks who disliked them. But for me, this has been a very difficult lesson to learn, and one that‘s caused a lot of unnecessary pain in my life. This year I want to work hard to love myself so much that if someone doesn’t like me, it doesn’t tear me down. Because at the end of the day I’ll know that I LIKE ME. And of all the people I will know in this lifetime, I’ll be with myself the longest. I want to love and believe in myself, no matter what. And I’m working towards that goal every single day.
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Happy New Years everyone and thank you for being a part of my little corner on the internet!
I love you so much and I look forward to 2019 with you and beyond!
xx-Dana
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