How To Love Your Body

Welcome to How to Love Your Body, on today’s episode we are talking about how to address fatphobic family members. We actually get this question a lot which makes sense because most people have been ingrained with diet culture. So once you are trying to do the work to get out of diet culture and learn Intuitive Eating and UnDieting - it may be really challenging to be around family members who are still constantly talking about either their weight / your weight , what diet they are on or commenting on the food choices you make. It’s a lot and can be really upsetting since you are working so hard on not exposing yourself to that.  How can you address fatphobic family members?  -Set Direct Boundaries - “Please don’t make comments about my body or my food.” -Be so strong in knowing that IE is best for you that whatever they say is like a different language you can’t understand - If someone came up to you and was speaking a language you didn’t understand you would most likely just look a bit confused and be un