If you’ve been on even one diet, you probably know exactly what I’m talking about. Diet culture takes up an enormous amount of time, whether it’s spent on “official” dieting programs such as the ones Guest-Jelley tried, or on more subtle things like trying on a million outfits in the morning and making yourself late for work because you “feel fat” in everything you own. Aside from the fact that fat is not a feeling, do you really think any of us would worry about trying to look thin in our clothes if it weren’t for the primacy placed on thinness since the late 1800s? Diet culture has created
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