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How Anti-Dieting Works: Embracing Food and Body Acceptance
TLDR The anti-diet movement promotes intuitive eating and body acceptance, rejecting the idea that diets work and the pressure to conform to a certain body type. It emphasizes mindful eating, the importance of nutrition, and the rejection of labeling foods as "good" or "bad".
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The anti-diet movement is a response to diet culture and promotes accepting food as something to be enjoyed and accepting one's body, rejecting the idea that diets work and the societal pressure to conform to a certain body type.
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The anti-diet movement promotes intuitive eating, which involves listening to your body's hunger and fullness cues and rejecting external controls and societal pressure to conform to a certain body type.
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The anti-diet movement promotes intuitive eating, which involves honoring your hunger, making peace with food, challenging the food police, and respecting your fullness by listening to your body's cues and being mindful while eating.
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The anti-diet movement emphasizes the importance of mindful eating, including stopping when you're 80% full, assessing the satisfaction of the food, and being aware of emotional triggers for eating.
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Intuitive eating and the anti-diet movement emphasize that exercise is not about weight loss, but about boosting mood and well-being, and that food choices should honor both taste preferences and health.
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According to intuitive eating dietitians and anti-dieting movement proponents, there is a biological response by the body to dieting that can lead to weight gain and binge eating.
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Dieting forces the body into starvation mode, leading to weight gain and a cycle of more dieting, while anti-dieting proponents argue that weight is only a small part of overall health and that dieting can be unhealthy.
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The anti-diet movement argues that the increase in average weight among Americans, which amounts to about 6 to 11 pounds, does not necessarily lead to increased mortality, contrary to common perception.
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The anti-diet movement emphasizes the importance of nutrition and listening to your body's cravings for healthy whole foods, but rejects the idea of labeling foods as "good" or "bad" and promotes body positivity.
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The anti-diet movement is divided between those who feel better when they shed a few pounds and those who reject any desire to lose weight, but the key is for everyone to stop being obsessed with food and weight and to remember that we're all on the same road together.
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