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ORIGINAL: Faramir I don't ever talk about or engage in "weight control," "loosing weight" or anything that uses weight as a metric. I think that is unhealthy, unproductive, and reflects an enfrnachisement in the sick rhetoric we have produced around our bodies and our health. The more someone talks and thinks in terms of "weight," "loosing pounds" and "dieting," the farther they move from health, and the physical beauty that springs from health. I don't believe in conspiracies, but it almost makes you want to think there is one, a conspiracy of the "weigth loss industry" to make people sick, and hate their bodies in their sickness. I have "enforced" health within a relationship before, but I would really say it was more like coaching, inculcating and modelling. Health means functional, strong bodies, and a modality for eating that encompasses the rela purpose of food: to fuel us and to be a pleasure. Food is wonderful--we all deserve to be fed, to be fed well, and to take pleasure in our food. Once we turn away from the sickness of dieting, the sick, horrible self-loathing of denial, and instead eat joyfully, we can let go of the maladaptions around eating. We can stop gorging, sneaking, starving, purging, junking, and start eating. It's such a pleasure to see someone stop being sick, and start being healthy. To train their bodies to be strong and powerful, and to eat with pleasure and purpose, and to be healthy. The impulse and desire to look good, to want to have a healthy, attractive body is good and wholesome. We should have healthy, attractive bodies that reflect our wholeness and strength. Form follows function, and once a person stops weighing themselves, and counting calories, and doing portion control, and all the sick, sick, ultimately suicidal tropes of the denial/loss culture, they can start to make their bodies healthy. And once you are healthy, once you have made your body functionally powerful, you will find that your form reflects it, and you can stop denying, and permit yourself to be ok. We were made to run, jump, twist, squat down, lift up, push and pull, and once that is pursued, you are on the road to health and beauty. [Emphasis added] This is so well stated and, I believe, right on. It's a mindset antithetical to that which the diet industry has perpetrated on the American public for so long...and we all know how successful the industry is in achieving their (stated) goals. Food is just...food. It shouldn't be the cause of such pain.
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