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To live a body positive and wellness-focused lifestyle:

The wellness industry wants you to fail. If you fail, you buy another plan. If you hate your body, you buy another cream. Body positivity is a threat to their business model.

A sustainable wellness lifestyle looks boring. It looks like:

Notice that weight is not on that list. When you pursue these behaviors from a place of self-respect, your body will find its own healthy set point. That set point may be larger or smaller than the magazine ideal. That is fine. To live a body positive and wellness-focused lifestyle:

The diet industry has hijacked the word "wellness" to sell restriction. A body-positive approach to nutrition looks radically different.

Drop the morality. Carrots are not "good." Cake is not "bad." In a body-positive wellness lifestyle, food is just fuel and joy. When you remove morality, you remove the shame spiral. You can eat the salad because it makes your body feel light, and you can eat the pizza because it feeds your soul. Both are wellness.

Practice attuned eating. Attuned eating (similar to intuitive eating) asks: What does my body need right now? Not: What does the diet say I’m allowed to have? Sometimes your body needs protein and fiber. Sometimes it needs comfort and carbohydrates. Listening to those cues is the pinnacle of wellness. Notice that weight is not on that list

Reject the "detox" narrative. Your liver and kidneys are already detoxing you. Juice cleanses and laxative teas are not wellness; they are disordered eating in a green bottle. True wellness is consistent nourishment, not periodic starvation.

This is where the rubber meets the road. How do you exercise when you aren't trying to change your body?

Change your "why." Write down three reasons you move. If all three are about weight loss or calorie burn, you are in an anti-body-positive space. Change them to: Ditch the punishment mentality

Ditch the punishment mentality. Did you eat a large meal? You do not need to "earn" it on a treadmill. Did you skip the gym for three days? You do not need to do double time to "make up for it." Movement is not a tax on living. It is a gift of mobility.

Find joyful movement. Hate running? Don't run. Loathe the gym? Don't go. Body-positive wellness looks like dancing in your living room, hiking on a soft trail, lifting heavy weights to feel like a superhero, or doing gentle yoga in your pajamas. Movement should leave you feeling better than before you started. If it doesn't, you are doing the wrong type of movement.