International No Diet Day
Is today:
"* I will not diet for one day, on May 6, International No Diet Day (INDD).
* Instead of trying to change my body to fit someone else's standards, I will accept myself just as I am.
* I will feed myself if I'm hungry.
* I will feel no shame or guilt about my size or about eating.
* I will think about whether dieting has improved my health and well-being or not.
* And I will try to do at least one thing I have been putting off 'until I lose weight.'"
The article linked above also talks about the origin of INDD and gives some statistics about body image and weight. "Young girls are more afraid of becoming fat than they are of nuclear war, cancer, or losing their parents." Sadly, I believe that could be true.
Happy International No Diet Day! I myself had a cupcake.
"* I will not diet for one day, on May 6, International No Diet Day (INDD).
* Instead of trying to change my body to fit someone else's standards, I will accept myself just as I am.
* I will feed myself if I'm hungry.
* I will feel no shame or guilt about my size or about eating.
* I will think about whether dieting has improved my health and well-being or not.
* And I will try to do at least one thing I have been putting off 'until I lose weight.'"
The article linked above also talks about the origin of INDD and gives some statistics about body image and weight. "Young girls are more afraid of becoming fat than they are of nuclear war, cancer, or losing their parents." Sadly, I believe that could be true.
Happy International No Diet Day! I myself had a cupcake.
6 Comments:
I think apart from SizeNet this is the only other place I have seen INDD mentioned - well done!
I didn't know yesterday was INDD, but my sweetheart and I were up in Napa wine tasting, so we ended up forgetting anything about diets anyway. Wheeee!
I had mixed feelings in reading this post. On the one hand, of course it's a positive thing to feel good about yourself and to eat in a healthy way without letting food neuroses rule your life. But I also feel like the way some of these guidelines are framed, they perpetuate some of the harmful myths of the fat acceptance movement:
-That there are only two ways to be: fat or anorexic.
-That thin people don't enjoy food and live in constant deprivation.
-That any sort of food restriction is inherently dangerous and harmful. After all, look at the high death rate from anorexia! (a condition from which the VAST majority of dieters do not suffer)
I think the quote "Instead of trying to change my body to fit someone else's standards, I will accept myself just as I am" is very telling. What about wanting to change your body for your own sake?
Maybe rather than having a day for throwing diets out the window, there should be a day for taking back healthy and moderate eating from the predatory aspects of the diet industry, and for striving to be lean and fit because you want to, not because of societal pressure.
On Saturday I had a bacon sandwich for breakfast and a hamburger for lunch!
but i didn't know it was No Diet Day...oops.
A friend said to me that INDD was not very size acceptance. I kind of agree. It is a good idea with good intentions but it does give the impression that it is a day to eat what you want. I think the media and others may have lost the meaning of it all. But that does seem to be the way of things. I wonder why it has slipped past this year?
I think that INDD was initally intended to be a day to draw attention to Size Acceptance in particular at a point in time when it was just really starting up in the UK where it's origins are...
I think maybe that's the case there seems to be less going on this year than other years... size acceptance and size tolerance are in the news on a frequest basis. Us big gals should feel the way the statement for INDD ALL of the time rather than on just one day of the year, but it just brings it out into the limelight to remind 'non fatties' what they DON'T have to go through and that just on ONE day of the year they should think about what we think about and live EVERY DAY OF OUR LIVES!
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