Jul 5, 2021
Have you ever noticed that you can go to bed at night feeling
one way about your body, only to wake up the next morning and feel
completely different?
This is something to get curious about because the size of our
bodies doesn’t change in this period of time, but how we FEEL about
our bodies does. If our body isn’t different, then what’s really
going on?
Few people are immune from having “bad body” days. The culture we
live in assigns moral (and health) value based on how our body
presents to the world.
We are socialized to ignore, suppress, or numb our feelings,
especially the uncomfortable, messy or “unacceptable” ones.
Living in a culture that reinforces weight stigma at every turn
teaches us that we can and should control the size of our bodies
and that failure to do so is a sign of weakness or poor
character.
Participating in diet culture changes our relationship with
ourselves, our bodies, and food, and over time we lose access to
the language to describe our emotional world and adopt the language
of food and fat.
So when uncomfortable feelings arise, our body becomes the
scapegoat.
Instead of feeling angry, we scrutinize our body. Instead of
feeling anxious about the big deadline at work, we feel more body
shame. Instead of feeling sad because we had a terrible fight with
our partner, we think about a plan to change our body.
We can do this very differently. Join co-coach, Steph Miramontes,
and me for today's episode of the Fat Murder Podcast to learn how
to skillfully navigate bad body days without becoming self
destructive.