Guys, Please Stop Making Food Resolutions

Three diets you’re considering RN and why they’re dumb

- Devin Tomb

You know the cycle: eating all of the things, followed by feeling bad about eating all of the things, followed by vowing to get your shit together with the help of a hard-to-pronounce ‘lifestyle’ – because body positivity may be brightening our feeds, but diet culture is still here to tell us we suck at food.

Starting a new diet isn’t entirely about getting clearer skin or improving your gut health (although if those are your true goals, then, obvs, fine). Most people attempt super-restrictive diets to become smaller versions of themselves. And honestly, ‘I’m going keto’ is now a more socially acceptable phrase than ‘I’m trying to lose weight’.

Eating according to a specific plan is stressful and makes you miss things like noodles, wine and fruit. Fruit! So then when you inevitably cave and eat a bag of chips, you hate yourself, and swear that on Monday you’ll start ‘being good’ again.