And anyway, the first three letters in the word diet should tell you what I want it to do.
Becca FitzpatrickTags: dieting becca-fitzpatrick hush-hush vee-sky
Women get boob jobs to give themselves a certain edge. Frankly, I don't see why they nearly kill themselves trying to diet off their equally bulbous hips.
Kim BrittinghamTags: dieting body-image weight-loss
Eating – overeating – saved me. It comforted me when I was at the mercy of grown-ups who didn't know how to give what I needed. Food was something to which I had ready access, and with it I cleverly fashioned a survival mechanism that pulled me back from the edge of insanity. – a young MacGuyver of angst and junk food.
Kim BrittinghamTags: food dieting mental-health body-image food-additction
Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women's history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.
Naomi WolfTags: beauty society culture dieting body-image weight eating-disorders
Every weight loss program, no matter how positively it’s packaged, whispers to you that you’re not right. You’re not good enough. You’re unacceptable and you need to be fixed.
Kim BrittinghamTags: dieting diets body-image weight-loss fat
Self-denial can lock women into a smug and critical condescension to other, less devout women.
According to Appel, cult members develop..."an attitude of moral superiority, a contempt for secular laws, rigidity of thought, and the diminution of regard for the individual." A premium is placed on conformity to the cult group; deviation is penalized. "Beauty" is derivative; conforming to the Iron Maiden [an intrinsically unattainable standard of beauty that is then used to punish women physically and psychologically for failure to achieve and conform to it] is "beautiful." The aim of beauty thinking, about weight or age, is rigid female thought. Cult members are urged to sever all ties with the past: "I destroyed all my fat photographs!"; "It's a new me!
Tags: sexuality equality self-esteem beauty society advertising feminism culture magazines aging dieting cosmetics double-standards objectification body-image marketing pornography eating-disorders images sexual-violence plastic-surgery diet-industry cosmetic-surgery fashion-industry mass-culture
The diet industry is making a lot of money selling us fad diets, nonfat foods full of chemicals, gym memberships, and pills while we lose a piece of our self-esteem every time we fail another diet or neglect to use the gym membership we could barely afford.
Portia de RossiTags: self-esteem food dieting chemicals diet-industry
She was every inch the skeletal goddess that had been promised by the bones of her feet.
Jefferson SmithTags: humor beauty humour fantasy feet dieting young-adult bones body-image promises portents skeletons skinniness
I looked at him nonplussed. I realized that I have spent so many years being on a diet that the idea that you might actually need calories to survive has been completely wiped out of my consciousness. Have reached point where believe nutritional ideal is to eat nothing at all, and that the only reason people eat is because they are so greedy they cannot stop themselves from breaking out and ruining their diets.
Helen FieldingTags: self-esteem self-awareness dieting weight-loss nutrition survive calories
Weight and body oppression is oppressive to everyone. When you live in a society that says that one kind of body is bad and and other is good, those with “good” bodies constantly fear that their bodies will go “bad”, and those with “bad” bodies are expected feel shame and do everything they can to have “good” bodies. In the process, we torture our bodies, and do everything from engage in disordered eating to invasive surgery to make ourselves okay. Nobody wins in this kind of struggle.
Golda PoretskyTags: diet oppression dieting diets body-image body-acceptance
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