How Do you Want to Live?

Meme with the words "Diets are the opposite of self care."

May 10, 2023

I spent 15 years of my life dieting, obsessing, trying to fix myself — which I
thought was self-care!

Fifteen years of depriving and feeling miserable. The more I dieted the less
I connected with myself, trusted myself, my body, my gut, & the less I
actually took care of ME.

Here’s what I know:

Diets are external rules, eating prescriptions made by people who have
never met you, do not know you, what you need, what you like.

Self-care is a loving response to your internal needs in the moment. Self-
care is personal, individual, flexible, fluid.

Diets are one size fits all.

Self-care says: I hear you. What do you need? How can I help?

Diets say, You have to have an apple for Breakfast on Monday. Those are
the rules.