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The Dark Side of Compliments

By Lisa Carrigg

We know compliments can be wonderful things, but they have a dark side when it comes to how diet culture twists them. …

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March 18, 2021

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Internationally credentialed dietitian with a passion for intuitive eating, mindfulness and compassionate holistic care. Lover of hiking, pepperoni pizza with pineapple and travel.

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It’s worth considering....... if there is someth

It’s worth considering....... if there is something you enjoy about a certain time of year, celebration, holiday or other occasion....... technically could you have it at any other time during the year?

For Example:
▪️Could you make or purchase a hot cross bun in July?
▪️Could you make or purchase pumpkin pie in January?
▪️Could you ask your auntie to make her special casserole in September (or share the recipe so you could)?

🎉🍴🥢 Food has been and always will be a special part of life events. But this can mean that a scarcity mindset can set us up to eat these foods as if we will genuinely not be able to have them again until this time next year (or ever). It’s worth considering if this impacts how you feel about and are with certain foods?

There are of course some foods which we may genuinely only have access to as part of a specific occasion.

This might be for cultural or spiritual reasons which matter to us to observe and respect. It could be because a food is only available during a certain growing or harvesting season or it’s made by a certain person or specific region to which there is little access to at other times. When we explore your satisfaction we get to explore these nuances too.

***This is in the context of having consistent and reliable access to a variety of sufficient and acceptable foods on an ongoing basis. When we do not have access (whether self imposed or otherwise) to sufficient amounts of food, finding peace with it is not the first priority. Sufficient access is.

Check out the blog for more tips on sussing out di

Check out the blog for more tips on sussing out diet culture 💛. Link in bio. ⁣
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I find clients feel REALLY frustrated with all the tricks and games diet culture plays (rightly so). I have also watched clients build strength in their own BS meter and confidence in calling it for themselves (and believe you can too).⁣
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If it ⁣
🔍 smells like diet culture⁣
🔎 promises like diet culture⁣
🔍 sounds like diet culture⁣
🔎 feels like diet culture⁣
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............. it’s a diet.

You can feel both: ⁣ ⁣ ✔️ Completely over

You can feel both: ⁣
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✔️ Completely over dieting, exhausted by where you have been, scared of the uncertainty of what to do about any of it (“I just don’t even know anymore”). ⁣
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✔️ Wondering about this new plan/program/lifestyle that has popped up and if it could work to help you finally lose the weight and keep it off. Really nervous about letting go of how you have always done things.⁣
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This is normal to experience in a culture constantly selling “you aren’t good enough” and which neglects the many things that factor into health, as well as that health isn’t a moral obligation to pursue.⁣
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Let’s make space to explore what your questions and concerns are about ditching dieting, what your values are, what feels off to you about your food and eating and what may have/currently is has is influencing it. Letting go of something familiar is hard, but it makes room for other things -and perhaps the other is more of value to the life you want to live. ⁣

Even if your experience had been exactly like this

Even if your experience had been exactly like this, I Imagine if you have ever dieted that there are perhaps parts that may sound familiar. Once you start learning about it, you start seeing how it has/does put you at odds with your body and eating. Then you can continue the journey to untangle from it. ⁣
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You can find more peace. You can come more deeply into your own wisdom and autonomy. ⁣
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What is yours vs what is diet cultures.

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