Welcome back, welcome back. You are listening to the Diabetes Digital podcast. And today I want to talk about a dilemma that happens very often with our clients. And it's not feeling good in your body, but also not wanting to diet.

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registered dieticians, and diabetes educators.

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A lot of people feel at odds with this. They feel like it's two conflicting thoughts happening

at the same time. And I think it's really important to normalize the in-between space because you can want to feel better in your body without going on a diet.

A lot of people are here.

You're not alone.

I think it's important to try to identify why you don't feel good in your body.

Because oftentimes the reason why you might not be feeling good in your body is because you don't like the aesthetics of it.

You don't like perhaps how you look and that might be tied to these unrealistic beauty standards that we all have to in a way

interact with through like social media, the images that we're seeing on magazines and on TV,

et cetera, et cetera. It's really hard. And that's why I think for a lot of people, it's like,

okay, like I don't want to restrict my food, but also like, what should I do?

I just don't really feel satisfied with the way that I look.

And it's very complicated.

But I will say that dieting isn't the only tool.

We can focus on habits that do help us feel better in our body.

And trying to pull away the focus from appearance into feeling, I think it's going to be really

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