The host reflects on the harms of labeling dietary approaches and how diet culture and strict rules can erode trust in bodily intuition, citing the animal-based trend and misuses of intuitive eating. The host encourages resisting boxes and practicing self-grace.
Good morning Cadre. Happy Fall day here in Colorado. It's starting to actually feel like fall in the mornings. I did not get a chance to see the northern lights, but if anyone did, I'm sure that was very cool.
The need to define what you do for health with some sort of label can do a lot of harm to yourself. My words of encouragement to you all this week are to really fight the urge to put yourself in a box. Practice having grace for yourself.
Hope you all have a wonderful rest of your weekend. If anyone on here is from anywhere that's been hit with hurricanes, I see you. And if there's anything that I can do there. Have a wonderful weekend. I'll see you next week.
Good morning Cadre. Happy Saturday. Happy Fall day here in Colorado. It's starting to actually feel like fall in the mornings, which is wonderful and I love it. I did not get a chance to see the northern lights, but if anyone did, I'm sure that was very cool. I don't know if they're going to be visible again this weekend or tonight of this weekend, but if you got to see those, I'd love to see photos because I did look briefly last night and I could not see anything but Good morning, Jules. Happy Saturday.
Today I wanted to talk about something that has been on my mind this week and if you follow me on Instagram, I touched briefly on it in a story, but something that I'm seeing a lot on social media is the need to define what you do for health with some sort of label and specifically as it relates to nutrition. Seeing a lot of, I wouldn't even say new diets, some of them have been around for a while and just getting a little more popularized. One of them that I keep getting pushed a lot of content around is the animal based diet.
And so I thought about talking about that and figured that might be a little too niche for some people. But what I really wanted to extrapolate from that and talk about is the downfalls of striving for a label. It's something that I see a lot in my eating disorder patients. It's something that I see a lot in day to day in the way that diet culture shows up for people and kind of piggybacking off of JC's Saturday enoughness series. It really kind of reinforces this idea that you aren't enough, that you don't know what to do for your own health and that you can't, can't trust your own intuition.
My apologies. I literally broke up like 10 minutes ago and apparently I can't talk yet when I first wake up. Yeah. So this idea of having to fit a certain mold and check off certain boxes and follow very specific rules in order to fit in with this group or accurately represent this label can do a lot of harm to yourself because then you move away from trusting your own intuition and your own knowledge and your own experience in your body and that can be a really hard thing to get out of. And oftentimes these days, especially with intuitive eating, especially with this animal based diet, the claims are always, and I don't mean like actual intuitive eating, I mean the ways that people are inappropriately using the concept of intuitive eating for dieting, which goes against the entire purpose there's this promise that this will be the last diet you ever have to do.
This is the way and this is the perfect way. And we all know that's not true because that's not how diet culture works. It clings onto labels and rules and sets you up really to fail. Because if you don't perfectly align with that set of rules or you are living your life, or maybe eating a pound of ground beef at every meal doesn't feel good to you, then you've failed according to this group. But to me, that shows me that you've actually taken the step forward of acknowledging your own body and what you feel, which is a huge win.
And a lot of people can't do that. So my words of encouragement to you all this week are to really fight the urge to put yourself in a box. Fight the urge to strive for that perfectionism in whatever way it's showing up and practice having grace for yourself and know that it's not a failure if you are doing something different than somebody else, that's not a failure. That is a testament to you holding space for your own body, your own health, your own experience, and that is more valuable than any diet.
Yeah, didn't have a ton for you today, but that's just something that's been showing up in my life this week and has been, in all honesty, a little frustrating. Seeing comments of people in the video, you know, here are the rules for this diet and people saying, can I do this? Can I do this? And really ignoring their own self in that because of some false promise of what this is going to be. And it takes a lot of strength to not let yourself get pulled into that wheel. Really jumping from one thing to another, getting out of that is tough and very, very valuable.
Hope you all have a wonderful rest of your weekend. Enjoy the fall weather if you're getting it. If anyone on here is from anywhere that's been hit with hurricanes, I see you. And if there's anything that I can do there. I know there's quite a few different donation links I've looked at for hurricane relief, but I see you and I hope things turn around as quick as they can. Have a wonderful weekend. I'll see you next week, same time, same place, touch on nutrition and.
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