Module 1: Drinking and Dieting - Their Similarities and Intersections
We'll cover why the real comparison isn’t between booze and food – it’s between drinking and dieting. We’ll also start to dig into the differences between being addicted to substances and feeling addicted to food (or certain kinds of food).
Module 2: Why Diets Don’t Work
I want to assure you that you’ve never, ever, EVER “failed” at dieting. The system was rigged from the start. We’ll also continue the discussion around the differences between being addicted to substances and feeling addicted to food (or certain kinds of food), and the completely opposite ways of healing from each.
Module 3: What is “Diet Culture”?
You know those thoughts it may feel like you’ve always had about which bodies are “best” or “healthiest” or what foods are “right” or “wrong”? They were put there by people and organizations that only care about getting your money and not one bit about you. And you can absolutely kick them out.
Module 3a: Cauliflower as a Substitute
I mean, the possibilities are endless. Riiiight?? (But also, humor heals).
Module 4: Health and Healthism
We’ll explore the false narratives we’re told about fat being unhealthy, what factors actually do influence health outcomes, and avoiding the harms of healthism.
Module 5: Anti-fatness, Anti-Blackness and Proximity to Privilege
You’ll learn when the concept of a body hierarchy was institutionalized, why it matters, how your identities shape how privilege or oppression is experienced, and how they intersect.
Module 6: 2SLGBTQIA+ Identity and Dieting/Disordered Eating
You’ll deepen your understanding of how proximity to privilege impacts your relationship with diet culture and substance use, and how the queer community can be particularly vulnerable to both.
Module 7: Beyond Shrinking and Drinking
Finally, we’ll tie it all together, ask why this all matters anyway, and where to go from here.