For the past 10 years, Guelph’s downtown businesses have participated in celebrating International No Diet Day on May 6. From May 3-10, numerous stores and restaurants in the downtown core are posting window posters that promote healthy body image and the acceptance of our natural body shapes and sizes. We are typically inundated by everyday media messages promoting dieting and general body dissatisfaction— most of which feeds the banks of multi-billion dollar beauty, fitness and diet industries. Unrealistic (and often unhealthy) standards of beauty and attractiveness comprise the societal norm and contribute to low self-esteem, depression and anxiety, all degrees of food and weight obsessions, in addition to distorted and often dangerous relationships with food and one’s body. The goal of the International No Diet Day campaign is to both challenge the societal norm of appearance dissatisfaction and to encourage body acceptance and maybe even a healthy dose of self love!
See our feature in the Guelph Mercury Tribune: https://www.guelphmercury.com/events/#/details/international-no-diet-day-may6-2024/13404444/2024-05-03T12
See our feature in Guelph Today:
https://www.guelphtoday.com/local-news/guelph-celebrates-no-diet-day-8605978
The Waterloo-Wellington Eating Disorders Coalition, sponsor of this initiative, encourages you to trash the diet and take a stroll downtown to see the window posters that are guaranteed to raise your body esteem! We will also be publishing a couple blog posts for International No Diet Day on our blog, so stay tuned.
For more information about the work of the Coalition, please visit www.eatingdisorderscoalition.ca . We can also be found on social media: