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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is trying to control your food intake immediately a diet or a food disorder? I watch what I eat and teach my kids to do the same because overeating on a regular basis is not healthy and also makes your body less nimble which makes it harder to have physical fun. Are we supposed to just shovel unlimited amounts of food in our mouth at the expense of everything else?[/quote]

Eating disorders can be about an over control on what you eat and how much. They can also be found in people who over eat, for various reasons.

There is no amount of food that is perfect for everyone. There is no body that is perfect for everyone. Part of learning healthy eating is also learning that deciding you will NEVER weigh above 120lbs is not compatible with a healthy eating mindset. Lots of people can eat perfectly healthy, be strong and nimble and active AND fat.

Food is fuel. But it is also pleasure and emotion and celebration. Our job is to accept each other on the premise that all bodies are good bodies. Take the shame out of it. Bodies just ARE. [/quote]

Yes - bodies ARE, and their worth and value are not dependent upon their specifics.  That said, I think there is a disempowering component (perhaps extreme?) of some of the "anti-diet culture" movement that discounts the effect of weight on how we feel and our bodies move and, yes, even look, and our own agency in making decisions about are bodies.  I have read and listened to some public "anti-diet culture" people who claim grown people can't lose weight sustainably, and there seems to be a moral judgment about even wanting to lose weight.

What about deciding that one wants their body to be smaller / stronger / etc?  Lift more weights / hike more miles?  Be able to get up off of the floor?  (and coming from a family of disordered eaters who are overweight to obese, I know very few people personally who are strong and nimble and active AND fat.  I also see the thinner people in my family who have not strength trained / worked on flexibility / etc. also have problems.  So it is not just a weight thing.)

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I should add - yes, I know that the "diet" industry is multi-million/billion ... but so is the processed food / big ag business.  There is a lot of money being made by people overeating ... including medicine and the health industrial complex ...[/quote]

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