A reflection on why we obsess over appearance when it's the least interesting thing about us. The speaker argues that diet culture steals mental space we could use for actual life, and urges self-compassion over the endless pursuit of weight loss.
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I just want to go back and hug her. I'm hugging her right now, that little girl that was putting so much emphasis on her worth to what her body looked like. Like, like, just everyone go back and hug the part of you that didn't love your body at some stage. Like, and I don't mean the time when, like— and even if maybe you go on some diet or something, you lose all this weight. And but you're never satisfied, are you? You're just constantly striving to achieve either more weight loss or to maintain the probably unrealistic weight loss that you've just achieved. Like, is that it? Like, what? Like, this has been occupying our brain space for so long, and it's been keeping us closed off from all the other miracles of the universe. Because as I said, biggest 3D ego lie that has been going. And so I think