What I Miss About Being Addicted to Diet-Culture

Jen Pavich
5 min readMar 26, 2021
Photo by Diana Polekhina on Unsplash

I didn’t go looking for diet recovery, it found me. Looking back now I’m amazed at how long it took me to see that obsession with weight loss had completely consumed my life. At my various low points, I obsessed over my weight loss quest for the majority of my waking hours. I tried every diet and “health plan” I could get my hands on and scoured pro-ana sites for advice. If someone had offered me instant…

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Jen Pavich

feminist life coach, shame resilience teacher, justice advocate, cocktail queen and cat lover. jenpavich.com