"The International No Diet Day (INDD) is an annual celebration of body acceptance and body shape diversity. This day is also dedicated to raise awareness of the dangers in diets...
The concept of INDD originated at 1992, when British Feminist Mary Evans Young decided to fight the diet industry and to raise awareness of the dangers in anorexia and other eating disorders. In order to do that, Evans Young addressed the local media saying "Fat Women Bites [sic] Back". When she was interviewed on television, she "reminded" the audience to celebrate the International No Diet Day on May 6. This specific date had no specific reason other than its proximity to the television interview.
Followed that interview, feminist groups around UK celebrated the INDD, and as the years went by, groups in other countries around the globe started to celebrate this day, especially in the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India and Israel.
There are several goals to the INDD:
Doubt the idea of one "right" body shape.
Raise awareness to weight discrimination, size bias and fatphobia.
Declare a free day from diets and obsessions to body weight.
Present the facts about the diet industry, emphasizing the inefficacy of commercial diets.
Show how diets perpetuate violence against women.
Honor the victims of eating disorders and weight-loss surgeries."
This is a great idea. Even if you do decide to stick to whatever diet you are on for this day, celebrate the heart of the idea by being aware that your body doesn't have to conform to the media's standards of beauty, because, in fact, that standard is very flawed.
Everyone is beautiful in his or her own way. Besides which, it's not the outside that matters - it's what's INSIDE that counts.
Be proud of who you are, what you look like, and go ahead and have that bag of chips, that bar of chocolate, that bowl of ice cream! Say FUCK IT to the standard forced upon us as to what we should look like. Beauty is, after all, in the eye of the beholder...it's also more than skin deep.
Celebrate every last inch of you!!
3 comments:
What a great post and wouldn't Marilyn Monroe be considered "fat" by today's standards! I still feel that one should be aware of health problems that could arise from obesity, though. And I think it's true that a man would rather have a woman with some "meat" on her bones and not have to cuddle with a bag of bones! Good job educating us about this INDD. I'd never heard about it before. Now, where is that chocolate bar I hid a while back? Oh yeah! I already ate it. Going out to get another one! lol
I wish I'd known about this yesterday! I've never heard of it before.
I'd fit right in with that jolly threesome.
i love the pic of the 3 ladies' bodies. it's so realistic.
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