Just kidding, this is the bowel prep from my latest colonoscopy! Tricked you! If you came here for some diet culture bull, I suggest you try to reframe your thinking around food, shift your relationship with food and your body from one of guilt and shame to one of pleasure and enjoyment, and learn a little about the toxic nature of diet culture.
Red Flags of Diet Talk:
- Talking about calories
- Talking about restriction
- Talking about losing a few more pounds to fit into, whatever
- Talking about your new fad diet
- Making excuses for why you deserve to eat (fact: you DO deserve to eat, and you know it by your hunger cues)
- Talking about carbs
- Saying something is “healthy” as a way to justify eating it (you can and should eat whatever you want, including fruits and vegetables, but also treats you enjoy)
- Listing facts about the ingredients of the meal, counting macros, trying to be really scientific about food…unless you have a food allergy this shit is not important.
- Scale banter
- Justifying what you are eating now by whatever form of exercise you did or will do (you deserve to eat because you are a being who relies on food to live!)
Cleanses, diets, and detoxes don’t work. There is plenty of research out there to support this. Like, real research, like pubmed.
Here is a graphic I stole from the internet if you’d like to share a quick reference with the diet trolls in your life:
Eating Vegan with Crohn's Disease 