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Remember that diet culture is a system of beliefs that equates thinness with health and moral virtue, so the aspiration to be thin isn't just skin-deep. At its most fundamental level, it's about the desire to be seen as good, lovable, and enough. It's about the desire to be special, and the desire to belong.

To your body, diets (or "lifestyle changes," or "eating plans," or whatever they call themselves now feel like famine.
Even the most seemingly gentle diet pulls the pendulum to the side of restriction. When that happens, your body's natural response is to push the pendulum back to the other side-to eating a lot,

"Even though I'm in a much larger body now —you know, very fat—I like my body so much better and I'm so much more connected to and appreciative of my body than I was when I was growing up," she says. "Weight loss doesn't heal people from their internalized weight stigma.
Bad body image is not cured by weight loss."

like trying on a million outfits in the morning and making yourself late for work because you "feel fat" in everything you own. Aside from the fact that fat is not a feeling,

“My best friends mother joked that I was a human garbage disposal because I’d gladly polish off anything she deemed too ‘fattening’ to keep in the house”