Dieting has a 95% failure rate for long-term weight loss. More importantly, it erodes your interoceptive awareness—your ability to hear your body’s signals. Intuitive eating is the practice of rejecting the external food police (calorie counts, "good" vs "bad" labels) and tuning into internal cues.
The recent explosion of weight-loss drugs (GLP-1 agonists like Ozempic and Wegovy) presents a complex challenge to the body positivity movement. While these drugs are medical tools, their cultural impact risks re-solidifying the idea that thinness is the ultimate wellness goal, potentially undermining years of progress in size acceptance. Dieting has a 95% failure rate for long-term weight loss