It’s January, Diet Culture’s favorite month. Time to start strengthening our tools for navigating this challenging time. Many of us are faced with “diet talk” at work, at family gatherings, social events and on social media. Sometimes it’s appropriate to engage and defend your non-diet journey and other times it’s appropriate to “bow out” of or divert the conversation. For those of you who have never heard of the term “Diet Culture” it’s a phrase that describes society’s obs

We live in a time where diet culture is palpable everywhere. We live in a world where fat is shamed and food is scrutinized, and children are hearing it. Children are being fed information at home, at school, from social media and from TV shows and its time we start correcting it. Kids are born intuitive. They are born to eat when they are hungry and stop when they are full. They honor their taste preferences and they don’t judge food. As adults it’s our jobs to keep that goi