Andrea Paul, RDN, LD

Okay, not doing SMART goals this year. The world's a mess. Time for FUN goals. Flexible - Life happens, things change, goals shift. Uplifting - Bettering myself isn’t a punishment. Numberless - Life won’t be radically different if I read 29 books this year instead of 30.

Every single day, I am in awe of the humans that I get to work with. That's it, that's the tweet.

If you identify as a health or wellness professional, but “don’t work with eating disorders,” please hear me when I say that you do. A THREAD.

I've been trying to be think more critically about the term "diet culture" and consider the deeper roots that created it in the first place. For example, what happens when you replace "diet culture" here with white supremacy? Patriarchy? Capitalism?

Diet culture takes rational nutrition advice and blows it up to where it’s no longer accurate or helpful. Let's take clean eating for example:

We’re not saying it’s disordered to eat healthy food. That’s a wild interpretation of anti-diet. It’s disordered when you order salad bc you’re absolutely terrified of everything else on the menu or you think having a piece of cake means you have to work it off in the gym later.