How To Love Your Body

Welcome to How to Love Your Body - this week’s podcast episode is a review of Reverse Dieting. One of our community members sent us a post confused about whether it was a good non diet option so we wanted to review it to let you know what we think. Disclaimer: This episode will discuss dieting behaviors, some calorie numbers and for the love of god, do not google reverse dieting if you are trying to avoid diet culture and before and afters. The reason we are explaining it here is because it is one of those diets that don’t look like diets, it’s something that people trying to UnDiet may look at and be convinced that it’s a safe diet alternative… Here's what we found. Let’s start by explaining what reserve dieting is: Reverse dieting is often described as the diet after the diet, it is slowly increasing calories after a period of restriction. Here’s where the first diet culture red flags come in - the intention of this is often weight loss or prevention of weight gain. And honestly when we were first sen