At the heart of diet culture is a lie. We are told that if we have enough willpower to keep up with a diet, we will lose weight and all our troubles will disappear. We will be happy, accept ourselves, find true love, gain more friends, be good at math, have organized junk drawers, climb Mount Everest! Okay, perhaps not all of those, but you get the idea: weight loss promises a lot of things. If only we can get to a certain weight or fit into a certain pair of jeans, then we will finally be at peace with our body. But that rarely happens. That could be because body ideals shift and suddenly
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