Let’s look back at your childhood: Do you remember weight talk in your house? Even if you weren’t encouraged to diet or weight wasn’t mentioned, you probably heard the grown-ups talking about their bodies, the diets they went on, or the ways they “needed” to change. Those conversations, those incidences of negative self-talk you likely heard, started to develop your sense of how you should think or feel about food and body. These influences can be so deep and subtle that we might not even recognize how much they impact us today. If you can’t remember any of those incidences, it’s possible your
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