diet mentality
Weight-loss thinking pattern
Diet mentality is an approach to eating focused on restriction, rules, and weight loss rather than hunger, satisfaction, or health.
It involves cycles of "good" and "bad" foods, guilt after indulgence, and viewing eating as a problem to be controlled: I'm trying to break free from diet mentality.
The term is often used critically, especially in intuitive eating and body positivity contexts, to describe thinking patterns that lead to yo-yo dieting and disordered relationships with food.
- restrictionLimit on action
- calorie countingMonitoring dietary energy intake
- willpowerMental strength resisting impulse
- deprivationState of lacking necessities
- clean eatingUnprocessed, natural diet
food rules · guilt · guilty pleasure · cheat day · cheat meal · portion control · binge · punishment · all-or-nothing · before and after · beach body · weight loss · quick fix · yo-yo · falling off · shame · self-control · cleanse
- eating psychologyemotional eating, comfort eating, stress eating, food guilt, food anxiety
- body imagebody image, body positivity, body acceptance, body shaming, body shame
diet mentalitybody acceptance
Comfort with one's physique
body neutrality · body positivity · body liberation · fat acceptance · body autonomy
diet, diets, dieted, dieting, dietary, dietitian, dietician, dieter, dieters