Note: This post contains mentions of disordered eating.
Recently, I asked women in the BuzzFeed Community about habits, products, etc. we've been told were good for us but are actually quite harmful, and it's honestly awful how long the list was.
Here are all of the things they said they're tired of seeing:
1. "To keep track of the amount of calories that you're eating every day to stay 'healthy.' This is such a harmful mentality that leads to focusing on food and obsessing about what you're eating because you want to make sure you're staying in the limit."
"This is what led to me having disordered eating and probably a lot of shame around food for me, especially when I was in my young 20s when I was doing this."
2. "Following a 1,200 calorie per day diet if you want to lose weight. This is treated as gospel when in reality it's an outdated piece of advice and not nutritionally sound. A fully grown human needs more food than that to function. Restricting so severely only damages your metabolism and makes any future attempts to lose weight more difficult."
—Anonymous
3. "This one is for the millennials: 'If you're feeling hungry, just drink water.'"
