Breaking up with diet culture: From Body Shaming to Body Positivity
I’ve been doing some writing on my experience of body positivity for Popularly Positive.
The piece below is about breaking up with diet culture for the dangerous and destructive path it led me down.
It shares my experiences with body shaming and my discovery of body positivity. 
[…] have what some people might call a bias (and what I would call fat phobia) to believe that thin = fit and fat = out of shape. That’s just how we’ve been […]
[…] It wasn’t always that way, and it took a long time to get to this point. During my years living with adult onset anorexia and an exercise addiction I had essentially disowned my body. My body was simply a vehicle to carry my brain around in. I hadn’t been taught to tend to it or care for it and if anything, I had been taught to manipulate it (thanks, diet culture). […]