Let’s stop demonising food
OK, hands up if you’ve ever said one of the following phrases when offered a slice of birthday cake / other tasty treat: “Oh, no - I’m being good this week.” “Oh go on then, I’m so naughty!” “I’m so bad for eating this cake…” I admit, I have certainly done this in the past - but I’ve decided to stop and think about the language I use to describe…
Being body positive
Last month I wrote a post about how I deal with feeling fat, something that as a woman, and an ex-anorexic, I deal with a lot. Today I want to delve a little deeper into this topic, talk about what body positivity means to me and why I feel hopeful about the rise of this movement. This is a definition of the body positive ‘movement’ according to Wikipedia (I know,…