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BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) Based on anInternational Food Information Councilsurvey, 43% of respondents report going on a diet, with 47% saying they did it to lose weight. You may choose one of the many popular diet trends out of convenience. However, research shows that many gain the weight back, but that may not be your fault.

This is the way the program is designed to go, says Clinical Psychologist, Certified Eating Disorder Specialist, and author ofThe Diet-Free RevolutionAlexis Conason.

Fat Liberation Activist Ragen Chastain adds, What the diet industry has done brilliantly is take credit for the first part where people lose weight, short term, and then blame people and get us to blame ourselves and others for the second part where they gain the weight back.

It can be frustrating to feel like you failed.

Its not uncommon for people to become more and more desperate and do more and more extreme things to try to keep that weight loss off, says Conason. So you may feel tempted to give dieting another chance, but thats part of the plan. By blaming people for the natural outcome, theyve built a repeat business model, says Chastain.

But why do people feel the need to lose weight?

The mainstream culture that so many of us live in equates weight with moral value and this sense that if youre in a larger body, theres something wrong with you, youre not trying hard enough, youre lazy, and that if youre in a smaller body, then youre virtuous, and youre righteous, Conason explains.

She describes dieting as a bad relationship, Oftentimes, we get caught in this kind of push and pull with dieting that we believe its going to save us and its going to be the answer, and its going to bring us all the good things we want in life, but then it disappoints us.

Some of that pressure is enforced by our activity online. Social media plays an incredible role in weight stigma in the ways that especially influencer culture, really centers this stereotype of beauty, says Chastain.

Its important to remember not to believe everything you see online. People fail to remember that social media is very carefully curated and edited and filtered, and people are promoting the best version of themselves that may not be authentic, says Registered Dietician and Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist Kristin West.

Conason explains that midset applies to some of the profiles that claim to be fitness or nutrition accounts. She says they often encourage eating disorder behavior, giving the example of thinner influencers posting about what they eat in a day. Eat Fit BR Registered Dietician Savannah Latimer says these can cause you to have a bad relationship with food, and it can be very damaging and long-term, you will struggle with body image.

With so many negative connotations, people have resisted this dieting culture for decades through social movements. One such movement is body positivity. Body positivity actually started in the sixties as a social movement for people that were fighting for equal rights for all body types, says Latimer.

As the movement got more popular, it began to get watered down.

Its sort of been a co-opted movement at this point, says Chastain, adding, youll hear those kinds of influencers say, its okay to be fat as long as youre healthy, as long as you have certain mobility, et cetera.

But the meaning began to change as well. The body positivity movement has also gotten misconstrued to mean I have to feel great about my body all the time and loving what our body looks like, says Conason.

So now, the focus is shifting to body neutrality. This idea that my bodys not good or bad, it just is. Im accepting it as it is now, even if I dont love it all the time, says Conason.

There is also a strong push to remove the stigma around weight entirely. People have the right to exist in fat bodies. It doesnt matter why theyre fat, it doesnt matter if there are health impacts of being fat, it doesnt matter if they could or want to become thin, says Chastain.

But whatever the movement, the diet industry is taking note and adapting. Theyre seeing what were doing, that it is working, and theyre co-opting the language of fat liberation to sell diets, says Chastain.

So before starting a diet or taking advice from someone online, discuss your options with a weight-inclusive doctor or dietician who is experienced in the health at every size approach.

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