マット・マクゴリーさんのインスタグラム写真 - (マット・マクゴリーInstagram)「To be honest, “messed up” feels like it doesn’t quite hits the nail on the head for me for what I would categorize as “injustice” or “oppressive.” It feels a little “palatable” when I am in a place with my own journey of wanting to name things with their full truth. Nonetheless, I can affirm this from my personal experience that it is fucked up. Some of my most miserable moments of my life were when I was dieting and trying to fit my body into what I considered the “acceptable shape.” This was seen as a “necessary sacrifice” for the “glory” of having a culturally accepted body. It was never about health for me or for the people that praised my body and my “work ethic” of forced deprivation. The latter was a cultural signifier of virtue and “goodness” in this fatphobic world. If it was about health, people would have questioned the mental, physical, and spiritual harm of constant restricting. Even when I thought I wasn’t restricting, it was because diet culture had been so normalized that I couldn’t recognize the ways that I was or what it had cost me. And all this coming from someone who almost never would have called my eating “a diet.” Because I knew better that “diets weren’t sustainable.” And yet I found my own way to do exactly that; restrict my eating to maintain a certain level of leanness. Calling it another name doesn’t change the fact that it was a diet, and that I did it for nearly half my life. # Repost from @kristamurias - “It’s hard to heal in a culture that praises thinness at any cost. It’s hard to heal when you’re surrounded by, and have internalized fatphobia. Leaving diets behind and focusing on recovery is so much more difficult when you’re congratulated endlessly for weight loss, but the compliments dry up when the weight comes back. Recognizing how pervasive diet culture is, and how wrong it’s messages are, is a huge part of being able to heal and to accept a body that changes as you recover.”」12月13日 5時11分