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Jerk Chicken Wings

Jerk Chicken Wings with Pineapple Yogurt Sauce

You are more than your body. You've probably heard

You are more than your body. You've probably heard that phrase before. Heck, I've said that phrase so many times before. And it's true. There is so much more to you than just your body. Your worth doesn't lie in your body.

BUT

What if your body looks like mine? What if you live in a bigger body or have wrinkles because you are older? Yes, I am more than my body, but I AM my body. All of my experiences living in a black body make me who I am. If I didn't learn to accept who I am and my body, I wouldn't be where I am today. I was writing a piece on the intersectionality in eating disorders today when this dawned on me. We place so much emphasis on recognizing that we our weight is not our worth or that we have more to offer than how we look. But then I realized:

I am my body. I will not shame it. And I will not apologize for it.

I hope you are able to do the same.

How do you think you would be able to accept yourself for who you are?

This doesn't get said enough. Black bodies are des

This doesn't get said enough. Black bodies are deserving of love.
YOU are deserving of love.

How can you start to treat your body with respect and dismantle the oppressive systems that are diet culture?

How you can start eating the food from your culture without caring what other people think?

How can you love the skin that you're in?

Wise words from @lifebyalexarae 🥯 Do you alway

Wise words from @lifebyalexarae 🥯

Do you always feel the need to make your carbs "healthy" when there's nothing wrong with them in the first place. In fact, your body NEEDS carbs more than you might think.

Check out the blog post Alexa wrote on carbs and your relationship to them. The link is in my bio!

Let us know what your favorite carbs are down below!

We always hear "you should eat like this" or "you

We always hear "you should eat like this" or "you should look like this". Why is there a "should" involved when talking about food and our bodies?

There is no right way to eat and no right way to look. Don't fall for it when someone says this to you!

Who came up with the idea of #newyearnewyou ?? No,

Who came up with the idea of #newyearnewyou ?? No, #newyearsameme . Why do we have to feel the need to reinvent ourselves just because it's a new year? I'm here to tell you that you don't! Who you are now is good enough to bring into #2021 and you don't have to set resolutions all around changing yourself.

How can you leave diet culture behind in #2020 ?

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