International No Diet Day

Why do we have 'no-smoke days' and the like? Because smoking is bad for your health. And that's why we have a no-diet day too - yo-yo dieting and fad diets of restriction and deprivation are bad for your health.

Here's how to be a part of No-Diet Day: wear a light blue ribbon on the 6th May.

It’s a way of saying "YES" to:

• fashion designers who send too thin and anorexic models away from fashion shows.

• the French government who in 2008 brought legislation to parliament to ban too thin bodies in the media.

It's a way of saying "NO" to:

• the constant craziness and obsession with the appearance of our bodies and what constitutes an ideal body. We are all unique and different and our bodies are too. To have a 'one size fits all' approach is great for the fashion industry and terrible for our self-esteem.

• the notion that you’re abnormal if you feel comfortable in your body (regardless of your size). Very often clients I saw needed a mind makeover rather than a body change.

It's a way of standing against:

• diet myths that have millions of people around the globe starting yet another Monday futile dieting attempt (regardless of whether they are overweight or not).

• those quick-weight-loss schemes that are among the most common consumer frauds,

• diet programs that have some of the highest customer dissatisfaction of any ‘service’ industry.

It’s a reminder to look at the facts...that:

• diets fail for about 95-98% of all people in the long term.

• since 1970, as diets have proliferated, so too has obesity.

• there’s something seriously wrong with stomach stapling and young girls of a normal weight having their jaws wired or committing suicide because they can’t “cope being fat”.

• that eating disorders are entrapping younger and older victims - and more men too, and places where eating disorders were once never known. They are like the canary in a mine, an indication of how toxic our society has become around food, eating and body issues.

• despite an ever-increasing array of ‘no sugar’, ‘low-and-no-fat products’ and and ever mutating array of diet plans’, globesity is a rising problem everywhere in the Western world.

• statistics show that young girls are more afraid of becoming fat than they are of nuclear war, cancer, or of losing their parents - that's how ridiculous this whole thing is!

• 50% of 9-year-old girls and 80% of 10-year-old girls have dieted! But despite more (and younger) dieting for our children, we also have more childhood obesity now than ever before and for the first time scientists are predicting that parents may outlive their children.

• it’s madness to buy into this thin-obsessed and diet-crazed world! Fast weight loss followed by the inevitable regain is the best possible way to ruin you metabolism.

Other than wearing a blue ribbon, what else do you do?

Declare a personal one-day moratorium on diet/weight/food obsession. This doesn't mean a day of stuffing (to make up for the diet you've just been on). It means you:

• don’t count calories or points. Replace that with happy eating
• make all foods psychoogically legal
• forget about losing weight

Listen, and respond, to your body instead:

• eat when it tells you it’s hungry
• savour each mouthful and really enjoy your food
• and stop before you've over-eaten.

You go through the day:

• celebrating the beauty and diversity of ALL natural sizes & shapes

• affirm every-BODY's right to health, fitness, and emotional well-being.

• commit to help stop cruel fattism and fat phobia and

• show compassion for victims of eating disorders, weight-loss surgery and other diet-related illnesses.

Since its humble beginnings in Mary Evans' dining-room it has been celebrated in Australia, South Africa, Canada, England, Germany, New Zealand, Norway, Russia and across the United States.

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