Each week Grazia Magazine has a topic debate and here’s my take on it below! Is it hypocritical to preach self-acceptance while carefully regulating what goes into our mouths?
Being a feminist doesn’t come from eating donuts and not giving a hoot about your expanding derrière, weak immune system, libido or energy, when you are secretly at war with food. Eating crap and pretending it’s OK, will lead to an unhealthy body, life, career and relationships. That lovely ones is pure anti-feminist.
Having a great diet doesn’t have to be an obsession with being thin and hot, but rather being healthy, sexy and empowered. It’s about looking and feeling good, taking responsibility for your health, receiving pleasure and having the stamina to enjoy a juicy life.
Let me decipher ‘diet’. Diet is a way of living that can foster a nourishing relationship with food and your body. A diet can be an empowering, self loving and sensual experience, a ritual of sorts to encourage a feminine approach to vital health devoid of calorie counting and strict discipline! If you want equality you need to know how to feed your body with a diet that’s right for you. We are kidding ourselves to believe that unconscious eating will further build upon a feminist crusade. Rather our food ignorance will perpetuate sickness. It already is. 
A diet can be a direct pathway to being a feminist – a woman who knows how to eat, what to eat and has no shame, guilt or fear around food. Having a ‘diet’ and ‘dieting’ are two opposed ways of relating to food. Dieting espouses a masculine approach that spikes fear, control, struggle and pain. Who wants that? I never hop on the scales to weight myself. I don’t need to see a number to determine whether or not I’m the ‘right’ weight or if I need to lose weight. The Bodylove Diet is all about learning to trust your body. When you trust your body and yourself you learn how to nourish your body intuitively. The scales drive me bonkers! I strongly suggest you throw them away to avoid the highs and lows that so many women experience! I have a ‘diet’ I am not ‘dieting’. My diet has freed me from such torment and given me a holistic lifestyle of taking great care of my body. I eat like a horse, fully enjoy every mouthful and my metabolism is on fire! After all, I am a feminist. We must be mindful of what and how we eat, to cultivate our individual brand of feminism, freedom and happiness!
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Much Bodylove,
Ingrid Arna xoxo
By Ingrid Arna – Weight loss and happiness counselor, www.bodylovediet.com
