'Ditch the diet and rethink your body'- BBC London

After undergoing 20 diets in 14 years Becky Young decided to turn her back on society's perception that she should be thin.

In response, she launched the Anti Diet Riot Club to fight back against the "diet culture".

Now the club runs workshops and events in London and it is helping empower people to rethink their relationship with their bodies and the food they put in them.

"I don't care why you're eating the cake. Just eat the cake," Becky urges.

Video journalist: David Faye

[johnblaze]

In the real world, no one is comparing you to the Model in the magazines. You can easily go about your normal life, have a job, get married, have a child etc. Without having to conform to what you think the standard is. It's all in your head

[danielpincus]

There's no question that feeling fat shame is a terrible thing to go through. On the other hand, biochemistry is real. Liver damage is real, diabetes is real, Not being able to run away from a terrorist attack is real.

The "Foods" so many consume aren't real food at all. They're industrial products that are designed to have us craving them. Real food is...nourishing food. Eating a diet based on our ancestral genes is the best way: Fresh meat, poultry, fish, seafood, whole fat dairy, nuts, vegetables, some fruits, some of grains and tubers, and only occasional sugar.

Eat that way and you're healthy, probably not fat-shamable, AND more inclined to move around and "exercise." That sounds pretty darn good to me? How about to you?

There's a British cardiologist who has treated myriad patients with obesity, written a great book and who would be happy to have a consult with this lady. His name is Aseem Malhotra.

[CannedBreadYTP]

Yeah, let’s just accept the obesity epidemic rather than doing our own research to avoid fad diets and get the most out of what we eat.

[kartmandoo]

go on lady, you do you. fight the norm and just be yourself.

[EliteXtasy]

I'd rather eat healthily and be slim and pretty, than stuff my face and look like them.

[ohnoitisnt]

Wheres that clip from family guy with the tuba