You know if I had an answer to #3 I'd be pushing it at everyone, right? Because this obviously applies to me, too.
I think it comes down to this - there is a difference between dieting and changing your life in a way that is healthy and permanent. A healthy lifestyle improves your quality of life as long as you maintain it. A weight loss diet reduces your quality of life with the goal of improving it in the future, namely by creating a thinner/"healthier" future. Dieting is about pain and self-denial in this weird self-absorbed way. I've changed my lifestyle, as you know, but it is absolutely not a diet.
I still worry that my lifestyle shifts are too influenced by the health/diet industry, even though I'm sort of radical and off-grid (i.e. exercising outside of a gym, eating to a plan I devise on my own, having fun with the whole thing, still being fat, blah blah blah). But I think, even if the desire for healthiness is part of the healthy stick phenomenon, that being healthy without buying someone else's idea of what that means could actually be striking a blow for my personal politics.
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Date: 2004-03-03 11:28 am (UTC)I think it comes down to this - there is a difference between dieting and changing your life in a way that is healthy and permanent. A healthy lifestyle improves your quality of life as long as you maintain it. A weight loss diet reduces your quality of life with the goal of improving it in the future, namely by creating a thinner/"healthier" future. Dieting is about pain and self-denial in this weird self-absorbed way. I've changed my lifestyle, as you know, but it is absolutely not a diet.
I still worry that my lifestyle shifts are too influenced by the health/diet industry, even though I'm sort of radical and off-grid (i.e. exercising outside of a gym, eating to a plan I devise on my own, having fun with the whole thing, still being fat, blah blah blah). But I think, even if the desire for healthiness is part of the healthy stick phenomenon, that being healthy without buying someone else's idea of what that means could actually be striking a blow for my personal politics.