As a plus-size woman, I'm dreading the post-Christmas weight loss push.
I was about 13 when I overheard my aunt say to my mum: “Here’s some weight loss tea,” as she gave her a belated Christmas gift. Inside the gift bag was a box of tea she had bought from a health store – guaranteed to ‘help you ditch a dress size’. At the time, I knew that I was bigger than my peers – a bit chunky for my age – so I asked my aunt if I could have some too. She didn’t say no, in fact, she encouraged it – which was a damaging and damning thing to do to such a young person.
The war against my body and the negative thoughts I had about it never seemed to stop, and with each year a new batch of weight loss crazes were on offer.“Commentators, influencers and writers seem to be missing her message entirely, or using it for their own agenda,” says writer Laura CaponPlus-size activist Lindsay McGlone, 24, from Hereford shares the same views as me and feels incredibly awkward about it all, especially when she hears people talking about it.
Speaking to anti-diet nutritionist Hannah Cartwright, she told me about how people become “overwhelmed with so many adverts and marketing around weight loss in January,” while explaining what we should be doing instead – ditching the diet in 2022, and making solid lifestyle alterations while
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