Learning to Slay the Beasts Podcast
Health & Fitness
In this week's podcast, I talk about the health, wellness and fitness industry's obsession with before and after photos.
After scrolling through my IG feed and seeing one too many before and after photos, captioned with "look how horrible I used to look?", I am calling it what it is - "fat-shaming". Transformation Tuesday photos celebrate our "new self", but at the cost of saying that our "old self" was lacking, unworthy, stupid, lazy, unmotivated etc.
I am tired of the negative narrative around health and fitness. It denotes that our "old self" was "bad" somehow, just because we didn't have the motivation or knowledge that our "new self" has. Maybe we were struggling with anxiety or depression, maybe we didn't have a great health coach or family support, maybe we couldn't afford healthy foods, maybe our hormones were out of whack. There can be a million reasons why someone is struggling with "weight"!
I think we should move to celebrating where we are at in our health journey and finding positive forms of motivation (like wanting to reduce inflammation, increase mobility and strength etc.). The focus on putting our "old self" down is not body positive, it is fat-shaming.
In this episode, I give a few tips about how I am reaching to be more body positive.
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