Have you ever looked back at something you were taught about food, weight, exercise, or your body and thought, “Wait… why did we believe that?”
That’s the question behind this space.
These videos take a closer look at the diet culture messages many of us grew up with—and the beliefs that came along with them. Some of these ideas came from magazines and advertisements. Some came from television, doctors, parents, teachers, friends, or things we were told were simply common sense.
And some of them are still here.
They just look a little different.
A diet product becomes a wellness product.
A calorie restriction plan becomes “healthy living.”
Fear of gaining weight becomes “being disciplined.”
Body dissatisfaction becomes “self-improvement.”
And the promise that you’ll finally be happy when you change your body gets repackaged and sold all over again.
The goal of these videos isn’t to shame the past—or shame ourselves for believing what we were taught. We were living in the culture we were given.
Instead, I want to slow things down and look at these messages with a little more curiosity.
What did we learn?
Where did these beliefs come from?
Why did they seem so normal?
What parts are still influencing us today?
And what happens when we realize that something we thought was a personal belief may actually be something we were taught?
Because sometimes the most powerful part of changing our relationship with food and our bodies isn’t learning another rule.
It’s realizing we don’t have to keep following the old ones.
This is the heart of what I share on Instagram: taking a closer look at the messages we’ve absorbed, connecting them to what we’re still seeing today, and creating space to question the things we’ve been told we’re supposed to believe about our bodies, food, health, and worth.
Sometimes that means looking back.
Sometimes it means laughing at how ridiculous something seems now.
And sometimes it means stopping and saying:
“Wait… they’re still selling us the same idea. They just changed the packaging.”