the ozempic era is making ED recovery harder — my honest take | recovered-ish with chloe cox

Episode Description

First things first — I have some news. Big news. News that explains a lot of the cryptic, tired, off-kilter energy you've been picking up on these last few weeks.

I'm pregnant. Baby number two is on the way and she is a girl.

But after that announcement, we're getting into something I've been genuinely fired up about — because right now, in 2026, I believe this is one of the hardest moments in recent history to be in eating disorder recovery. The cultural noise around weight loss is louder than I have ever heard it. And I wanted to talk honestly about what that's like, what it stirs up, and how to actually stay the course when it feels like the whole world is doing the opposite.

In This Episode:

• The big announcement — baby number two, and what being pregnant with a girl brings up for me as someone in ED recovery
• Why I believe right now is one of the hardest moments in history to be actively recovering from an eating disorder
• The cultural conversation around weight loss in 2026 — and why it feels so different from anything we've seen before
• The comparison to the nineties and early two thousands thin ideal — and why this moment feels even harder
• A client story about recovering while her parents were actively dieting — and what that taught me about staying the course when everyone around you is going a different direction
• Why choosing to eat adequately right now is genuinely a countercultural act
• The psychology behind why people without eating disorders get pulled into these cycles — and why understanding that actually helps
• Why GLP-1s and weight loss medications are a different conversation for people with eating disorder histories
• How to use a little healthy rebellion to protect your recovery
• Practical strategies for navigating social media, diet culture talk, and the cultural moment we're in

Timestamps:

0:00 Intro 1:00 Reflecting on last week's body image episode 2:00 The big announcement — I'm pregnant 5:00 Having a girl — and what that brings up around passing on an eating disorder 7:00 Why right now is one of the hardest times in history to be in ED recovery 9:00 The cultural noise around weight loss in 2026 10:30 Comparing this moment to the nineties thin ideal 12:00 How we got here — and why it feels different this time 13:30 Choosing to eat adequately as a countercultural act 15:00 A client story: recovering while her parents were actively dieting 20:00 Putting yourself in the driver's seat of your own values 22:00 The psychology of why people without EDs fall into these cycles 24:00 Why GLP-1s are a different conversation for people in recovery 27:00 It's okay to feel frustrated that other people seem to have an easy solution 29:00 Practical strategies: resetting your algorithm, limiting social media 32:00 Clarifying your values around why nourishment matters to you 33:30 The internal scoff — giving yourself permission to know better 34:30 Finding your people and filling your feed with counterculture 35:30 Telling yourself you can wait it out 37:00 Closing thoughts — eat your food. you know better.

Practical Strategies Mentioned:

• Limit or take breaks from social media — especially during high-exposure seasons like spring and summer
• Reset your algorithm intentionally — spend time actively liking content that feels safe and muting or reporting what doesn't
• Give yourself a pep talk before opening the apps — I know what I'm walking into and I know better
• Practice noticing when you're getting activated and log off at the first sign
• Write down what you're looking forward to this season that has nothing to do with your body
• Clarify your values — why does nourishing your body actually matter to you right now?
• Practice a little healthy internal rebellion — you've done enough work to see throu

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Transcript

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I would think about people that would go on diets, and I'd get so mad that any given person could just choose to go on a diet and lose weight, and it's not a big deal, and they don't have to go to therapy for it, and they get to be in a smaller body. And I don't. There has never been another time in history that I think has been harder for people with eating disorders to fight for and remain in recovery. You're listening to the Recovered-Isch podcast. I'm your host, Chloe Cox. And yeah, I know a thing or two about eating disorder recovery. Between my own very complicated history with disordered eating and the work I do now, I've seen this thing from pretty much every angle. This podcast is where we talk about the messier parts of recovery that don't really make it online. No platitudes, no inspirational quotes, just the real, raw, sometimes frustrating, sometimes surprisingly liberating process of building a life beyond your eating disorder. Let's get into it. Hello! Well, here we are again. Another week on the Recovered Ish Podcast. My name is Chloe Cox. Thanks for being here. Today is a Wednesday. I tend to record a week in advance. And this week's episode, I guess last week's episode, if you're listening to this right now, was about my body image. And it was a very personal episode sharing with you my inner world about like even at this stage in recovery, body image still gets to me. And you know, I'm kind of still in a weird space with it, but I can tell you one thing, which is I'm just not thinking about it that much. It's like, yeah, not feeling the best in my body right now, feeling a little uncomfortable in my body. And there's so many other fish to fry, so to speak. I've got a lot of other things going on that are begging my attention, and I just have to put my attention elsewhere. So the lesson to learn here, if I could sum it up, is life in recovery, at least for me, the goal has been to build a life that fulfills me so much that something like body image doesn't have to be in check for me to be okay. And I think we've arrived there. Hopefully. I did say at the end of the episode last week that I have some news to share that I have been keeping from you all. And I have been sort of cryptic about this for the last several weeks. You have witnessed me feeling tired and chaotic and not my best and just like generally off. And so I think it's time to be honest with you about why that is. And maybe some of you have already figured it out. I bet some of you have. The news is that my body has been changing a lot lately because I'm pregnant. I am having a baby, and I'm so excited about it. It is my second baby, and I am due at the end of October. And man, has the first trimester like really kicked my butt. Like, truly, it was so hard. Those of you that have been pregnant before, I mean, I hope that your first trimester was not as bad as mine, but I think that many, many are worse. So I also have to be grateful for that. But I just felt like a piece of garbage, like the entire first trimester, and I am now safely in the second trimester, which is why I feel comfortable sharing all of this news with you. I've been crazy just trying to keep up with my life and my work and my child going through pregnancy. Last time my first trimester wasn't great, but I didn't have a kid, and I could just go home and like totally crash and do nothing and take care of myself as much as I needed to. But when you got a two-year-old, you don't really have as much room for that, which is fine. But luckily, I have a very supportive husband that has been so helpful during all of this. I have a job that's generally pretty flexible. So there's been a lot of me lying on the floor of my office in this first trimester period. But yeah, that's the news. Baby arriving this fall. You will probably notice that my body will be changing. You will hear me talking about this because inevitably, as my body changes, it will bring up eating disorder-related things. I know I've spoken before about how my first pregnancy, it was kind of this like blissful period of I feel so in touch with my body and I'm so in awe of the fact that she is growing a human life. And the whole time during the pregnancy, I had like pretty okay body image. Not so, everyone. Not so this time around. And I don't really know what the difference is, but I can tell you that this time around, and maybe it's just because I've been in the first trimester and I have been feeling horrible in my body, like physically really bad, my body image has kind of gone alongside with it. Maybe I should have saved last week's episode to discuss with this disclosure, but I think everything we discuss stands pregnant or not. That's the big news. And the other part of this news that I will share with you all is my second child is a girl. And my first child is a boy. I have a son, which you all probably know at this point, but I have thoughts about the fact that I'm having a baby girl. And I'm very excited, of course. I am so excited to have a little girly joining the family. I am aware that I need to be the most recovered version of myself for that little girl. And this is not what today's episode is about, but I just want to say I have that on my radar and I would be happy to talk about it at length. Obviously, for my son, I also want to model a healthy relationship with food and body, but there's just something different coming from, you know, I am a woman with an eating disorder, and it is so directly tied to my femininity that thinking about having a daughter, it brings up concerns of passing that on. And I really, really want to stop this passing on of eating disorders from going a step further than me. It ends here. And so that's on my mind. And it's kind of feels like pressure, but necessary pressure. Pressure, I welcome. So, anyways, y'all, I am pregnant. I'm having a baby. She is coming, she is on the way. I'm gonna do my best to record as many podcast episodes as I can so that when I'm on leave, there's still content coming out. That's just, I don't know. It's been a goal for me to have an episode release every week of this year. And so when I found out I was pregnant, I was like, I'm a very goal-oriented person. Not sure if you can tell, but I I really would like to keep that going, even if I am not recording in real time. So, anyways, long rant to announce that, but I'm excited, updates to come. So, with all of that aside, I let's get into today's discussion. This is something that has been on my mind, and I posted a reel about it earlier this week. Essentially, that right now, right now, and today is April 15th, it's tax day, that's irrelevant. April 15th, 2026. There has never been another time in history that I think has been harder for people with eating disorders to fight for and remain in recovery. And I'll explain what I mean by that. There's so much happening in the cultural conversation about bodies, and particularly weight loss, blatantly about weight loss. In this year, in particular, we have seen an insane boom that I've not ever witnessed in my lifetime of weight loss, drugs, medications, propaganda literally everywhere. When I posted this reel talking about the way that you know, now you log on to social media, especially right now, April 2026, and you just have to kind of expect that you're going to be bombarded with ads for GLP ones and Pilates studios and like so much stuff. You have to almost gear yourself up for psychological warfare when you are choosing to open one of these apps. And so many of you in the comments were like, yeah, it's literally ad after ad. Like it's all around me. And one of you even said that it comes on when you watch baseball. I'm like, what is going on? What is this world right now? I feel angry. I feel frustrated that this is the landscape that we're walking into. But it's it's not just the fact that it's 2026 and suddenly the body trend has shifted. It is so clearly about money that I cannot shake it. Selling programs, selling medications, selling apps, solutions. It's all over the place and it's all to sell. Oh, as you can tell, I'm pretty fired up about it. And the fact that it is spring heading into summer means that even if this was the year 2016, we would still be bombarded with the messaging of summer's around the corner, time to lose weight and get your summer body. That would have still been there in 2016. But the fact that it's 2026 and we now have especially the weight loss injection thing that's way too accessible. Now that that is such a part of like normal life, it is so loud, the pressure to become smaller at any. The only other time in recent history that I can compare this to would be the 90s and early 2000s, where the very, very thin body ideal was pervasive. Yes, that I can compare it to that. And so it's like, okay, how are we here again? But also, we didn't have social media back then. If you wanted to disengage with that kind of conversation, you don't pick up the magazine, you turn off the TV. Yes, people are talking about their diets all around you. That's definitely still hard. And I imagine there are some of you listening that can really remember what that period of time felt like too. This feels eerily similar, but almost with a dystopian twist. Like now there's this magical medication that makes it. This is probably a controversial thing to say, but for someone with an eating disorder, using something like a GLP one, it's essentially a tool to help you deepen your disorder. And that scares me so bad. But more than anything, today I wanted to talk about what it's like to be actively in recovery when this is the state of the world. When your mom or your best friend or your teacher or your favorite celebrity, they're all on GLP1s or on some crazy diet. And it seems like really everyone is doing it. How the heck are we supposed to stay in recovery and actually be kind of working towards the opposite, where we listen to our bodies and nourish our bodies adequately when everyone else, it seems, is falling into disordered patterns? If you told me back in 2015, 2016, when I was working super hard on my own recovery, if you would told me that in 10 years' time that it would actually be worse and harder for a person to accept their body than it was 10 years ago, I don't know if I would have believed you. Because at that time, the body positivity movement was becoming more talked about. Health at every size was popping up in the media. We were seeing more inclusivity of models. People were, I think, finally waking up to this restrictive mindset that we've been in in the 90s and the early 2000s is not good for us. It's not healthy. There was a lot shifting globally, culturally, societally as well that I think was aiding in this elevation of marginalized populations that was optimistic at the time. And if you had told me then that we would be like back to where we were in the 90s in the year 2026, I would not have believed you. So it really does feel, first of all, kind of shocking that we're here, but also more stressful than ever to be actively making the choice to be eating enough. I want you to hear me when I say this. Choosing to eat, choosing to nourish your body adequately right now is somehow counterculture. It is somehow a rebellious act. It's somehow pushing back against the norms. And what? It should not be that way. But it's starting to feel that way. It's starting to feel like a political statement to be eating an adequate amount of food when everybody else around you is glorifying thinness at any cost. So the question really is: how the heck do we recover? How do we do this when everybody else is doing the opposite? Now, this isn't necessarily a new problem on an individual scale. I know when I first started working in the eating disorder field when I was a baby therapist, I worked at an eating disorder treatment center. It was a PHP IOP, loved that job, loved my clients there. But I remember in particular working with a client who was a teenager, and she was in treatment for an eating disorder, and her parents were constantly dieting. And they were just about to start a brand new diet, and their daughter had just gotten out of residential treatment and was living with them again. And I was like so baffled that they could not understand what was wrong with that. I would talk to these parents too because it was extremely triggering for my clients. So we would have family sessions where I would say, When so and so is sitting down for dinner with you all and you're pulling out your food from such and such a diet, and she is sitting here fighting so hard to get through a meal that is so different than the restrictive one that you are eating, that's making it really hard for her to eat. And what she really needs from you right now is to model a well-rounded, healthy, stable relationship with food. And they would say to me, but she's the one with the eating disorder. And I need to lose weight. And I would be like, I can't win this conversation. I can't win this conversation. So a lot of my work with that client was answering this question: How do you prioritize recovery when the people around you are doing something different and you have no control over that? And I've even encountered this in my own life, thankfully, not with my family who has been incredibly supportive to me throughout all of this, but with certain friends of mine or just existing in the world, you hear it all the time. You hear those diet culture comments, you hear people talking about the restrictive way that they're eating or judging themselves for whatever they did eat, and it grates on you and it sinks in and it wakes up the eating disorder if you're in a really vulnerable place. Now, when the whole world is like that, it makes it feel really frustrating to a degree where it can feel sometimes impossible. With that client, with the dieting parents, a big part of our work was disentangling actually her parents' relationship with food and understanding how that has impacted her throughout her life. We had to really go deep and figure out what are the things that you picked up from your parents, what are those beliefs that are now so deeply ingrained that they have not worked through and that they might never work through, that you inherited, unfortunately, and because of your specific temperament, those things have been transformed into this eating disorder that is life-threatening. Where her parents have been able to teeter on the line of a disordered, problematic relationship with food for their lives. For my client and for so many of us, our temperaments take it the step further and it becomes this eating disorder that takes over a life. We had to really understand okay, what's the role of dieting for your parents? What's that doing for them right now? What is that providing for them? And a part of what we came to was they have a lot of body dissatisfaction. They have this idea that their worth is related to food. And so I had to ask my client, is this a trait that you really want to take with you from your parents? Or is this something that you want to disentangle and leave behind? Sometimes it is easier to see how warped something is when we're looking at somebody else's behavior versus our own, especially in an eating disorder. We have a way of justifying things that really does end up making logical sense to us. But when we see someone else doing it, we can see, okay, that doesn't compute. For example, understanding this client's father, he kept returning to dieting again and again and again, hoping that it was going to offer him a solution to the way that he felt about himself. That's the conclusion that my client and I came to. And at no point did that diet ever fully deliver. And she began to recognize that that's the way that she felt in her eating disorder, that she returned to it as something to help her through and to feel some sort of worth about herself, and it never fully delivered, which is crazy making, right? So she was able to, by looking at what's happening with everyone else in her life that continues to engage in disordered cycles, she was able to understand something a little bit deeper about her relationship with it. And from there, we tried to put her in the driver's seat of like, okay, yes, you're a teenager, but there are decisions you can make for yourself. And as you're transitioning from a teenager to an adult, you get to decide what are your values. You get to decide, are your values different than your parents? Are you going to live a different life than your parents? Or do you want to be 52 like your dad and still going on these chronic diet cycles? Do you want to find your real self-worth instead? Because you have that opportunity. And these people do not. And they're not giving themselves that. And that separation and introspection was helpful enough for her to be able to sit at the dinner table with her dieting parents, look at her plate of food, and realize that it was not just her choosing to eat more than them. It was her choosing to value different things. It was her choosing to seek worth beyond what was on her plate and actually understand herself and what was really important to her in her life. Before we continue, I wanted to take a moment to let you know about something I created for people who want real, lasting eating disorder recovery, not just insight, but skills. My recovery skills training is a structured, step-by-step course designed to help you actually change how you relate to food, your body, and your overall identity. This is a 12 week course where you'll move through 12 modules that cover managing food guilt and fear, rebuilding body image without obsessing over it, finding and keeping motivation when recovery feels stuck, developing what I call internal leadership. So the eating disorder no longer runs the show, creating a truly balanced Relationship with exercise, learning how to take recovery into real life situations, meals out, holidays, social gatherings, and everyday stress. You'll also get a 100-plus page workbook with practical exercises, reflection prompts, and tools you can return to again and again and again. Alongside the weekly lessons, the course includes audio meditations to help regulate your nervous system, recovery toolkits you can use in real time, scripts for boundary settings with family, friends, providers, and belief rewiring exercises to untangle food rules and diet culture programming. It's really got it all, and it's the course I needed when I was stuck in my eating disorder. Importantly, recovery skills training is meant to work with therapy, not replace it. It gives you the skills and the tools that you need so that in therapy you can focus on the deeper healing. If you're listening to this podcast, you can use the code podcast for a listener-only discount of $57 off this course. You'll find the link in the show notes or the link in my bio on Instagram. All right, let's get back to the episode. So, in that essence, it became an act of rebellion, but also something that deepened her recovery. And I've seen, while that is an example on the individual level, I think there's a way we can replicate it with what's going on in our cuckoo bananas backwards world right now. I have to wonder what's going on in the collective consciousness that's making it feel so important to be thin. What is going on in our world that is driving people to spend all of this money and to risk their health? People that maybe don't have eating disorders, what is driving them to make these choices? And I think much of it comes down to societal programming that frankly feels kind of strategic. What I see as the cultural conditioning that plants a problem in our brains, the very same people that plant the problem also present the solution for X amount of dollars. And I think that's a piece of it. But I also believe that this idea, and I think for many of the people that are buying these weight loss drugs or programs or whatever the case is, these have been insecurities that were planted from a very young age and woven into the media consumption, woven into the cultural conversations. And if you're someone with an eating disorder, I imagine you can identify with that concept as well. Like we can all kind of trace like where did those things get planted and how did those seeds get sown and watered and nourished to become the disorder that is eventually manifest. We are not the only ones that are taking this in. Most everyone is taking this in. Not everyone sits with those insecurities or sits with those ideas and the circumstances of life and a combination of, you know, circumstances and temperament and genetic predisposition. Not everyone is going to have that turn into an eating disorder. But it might exist as a low-level dissatisfaction over the course of a lifetime. And maybe we can compare it to other insecurities that we might have. For example, one insecurity that I have about myself that has nothing to do with my body is that I am a crippling people pleaser and I have been working on it so hard and I don't know how. Is this something that affects me in my every waking moment? I'm always thinking about it. It's plaguing me at all times. It's really impacting my life. No. Does it come up pretty often? Yes. If someone told me that for $150 a month for four months, I could take a pill and I would no longer be a people pleaser, that would be amazing. I would pay that. That would get rid of something that is an annoyance to me, has plagued me, has been an insecurity. And I think it would really improve my quality of life. Why not? Why not? That I imagine is how these sort of things slot in for most people, most non-eating disordered people that end up taking these medications or doing these programs or like falling under the influence of this cultural messaging. And I think it's so hard to witness it because as people in recovery, we do have to work really hard to find an alternative route to contentment that isn't related to food and isn't related to body image. We can't just take a medication like this and then suddenly we're happy with our bodies and we can move on. No, these medications, if they're taken by someone with an eating disorder, can end up being extremely life-threatening and really deep in the disorder, while it might feel like a relief at a certain point. And I remember in my early recovery, before any of this madness, I would think about people that would go on diets and I'd get so mad that any given person could just choose to go on a diet and lose weight and it's not a big deal and they don't have to go to therapy for it, and they get to be in the smaller body. And I don't, I would get so mad that just because I have had an eating disorder, I am now no longer ever again able to diet. That seemed wildly unfair to me. And I brought that up with my therapist too. I told her, So you're telling me that everybody else in the world can do this, but I can't. That seems really, really rude. And she said, Yeah, because a diet for you will never be a diet. A diet for you is letting an eating disorder back into your life. And that's how I feel about the world right now. Part of it is like, yes, it is unfair that there is a medication out there that people are taking to lose weight, and they're saying it helps them not think about food. And because we're here with eating disorder histories, that is not safe for us. It's frustrating because I think the idea is that would have solved everything. That would have solved the eating disorder, that would have solved my problem. But that is deceptive. That is not true for us. That would be bypassing so much deep work, so much emotional processing, so much healing, it would not be a solution. It would be a band-aid. And underneath that band-aid, the wound would never heal. The second that band-aid gets taken off, all of that would come to the surface. And probably in a more vicious way than ever before, that wound under the band-aid would be getting infected. We would not be looking at it, we would not be attending to it. It would be gnarly. So when your mind starts to tell you, I wish I could do that. It's not fair that other people can do that and I can't. You're right. It's not fair. It sucks. And if you feel frustrated by it, you're allowed. You're allowed to feel frustrated. And it's still true that you would be doing yourself and your recovery a disservice if you chose that route and if you chose that option. Okay, all of this is to say we can understand the psychological cultural phenomenon that's going on right now. Every person has been bred to have this deep insecurity around body. For people without eating disorders, you can keep it at bay. It might be a difficult dissatisfaction that you carry, but you can keep it at bay. Now there is a solution to that dissatisfaction that is being marketed with intensity. So it almost feels like a no-brainer to a lot of people to fix that problem, so to speak. What they don't see, but what we see, is that it's not really fixing the problem. It's masking the problem. The problem was never the person's body. The problem was never the person's weight. The problem is that we've been trained from birth to have dissatisfaction around our bodies and to not be able to accept our bodies so that we can be primed to purchase. That's the real problem. Our self-worth is what needs to be attended to. The body doesn't need to be fixed here. Have been given the very difficult road that is also an opportunity where we have no other option as people in recovery but to do that inner work and to understand that. People with this sort of mild body dissatisfaction never really are forced to look at it the way that we are. So just like my client that took that opportunity to separate herself from her parents and realize I value something different. I see the deeper meaning here, I see the deeper story, and I'm gonna take another path rebelliously. That's kind of what we have to do with this whole thing. I tell myself when I see those ads, I know better. I know better than that. I'm not falling for this. I know better. And does that sort of play on this idea of superiority? A little bit it does. But we can bring that in here. We've done enough inner work to know better. We know better than that. We are not falling for this BS. I know that when I'm seeing this ad, that it has been specifically and strategically designed to make me feel bad about myself and to make me feel like I need something to change. That is an idea that's being planted. And I am too smart, too fall for that. I've done too much work too fall for that, and so have you. So practically, here's what I'd have you do: limit your time on social media. That's the biggest one. And again, as someone on Instagram, I'm here again telling you to delete it. Or at the very least, reset your algorithm. I don't know if you realize that you can do that. Recently, I went back into, I like chose different topics that I wanted to see on my algorithm. And now my whole feed is sourdough bread making, which is lovely because I'm very into that right now, and content about pop music and like funny comedy stuff. And that's so lovely to see. Yes, the ads still seep in there because the algorithm knows that I am a 30-something woman and I'm the target demographic for these advertisements. But at least when I'm scrolling, most of the time, I can keep that out. If you do get an ad, report it, block it. If you get, if you are scrolling and you see a reel that is triggering to you, mute that person. I would take some time where you, if you are going to keep the app, where you intentionally log on and for about half an hour, assess every single reel that comes across your feed, like the ones, like actually like it. Tell the algorithm you like it for the reels that feel safe, feel supportive, feel inspiring, feel fun, like those. Mute or say see less of for all the rest, the ones that don't align. And I think it can make a big difference. So that's number one. Number two, try to be more conscious about when you are opening the apps. Of here I am pressing Instagram, and I know that I'm gonna see things that are gonna be hard for me. And I know that I know better. Give yourself a little pep talk. And if you notice within yourself as you're scrolling that you're beginning to get activated, do what you can to log off. Notice that. Practice noticing it. Practice the first time that you feel like, ooh, that was triggering. Take a break. You're done. Get off. The other thing that I think really helps is clarifying your values around why it is important for you to eat, why it is important for you to not be focusing on weight loss, to not be focusing on this stupid idea of a summer body. You have a body, it is going to be the summertime, you have a summer body. We know that that's the truth. Write down what are you looking forward to about the summer that has nothing to do with your body image. I'm looking forward to a trip to New York that I have to see my sister who's graduating from grad school. I'm so looking forward to being able to have a barbecue. I'm moving pretty soon, and my new place has a pool, and I'm really excited to be swimming in the backyard pool. There's so much more about the experience of life to focus on that. Yes, we need to have a body to live it, but your body doesn't have to be a particular way to enjoy it as much as the media will tell you otherwise. So think about what is important about this season of your life outside of the body and why is it important for you to actually nourish your body properly in order to enjoy those things. The other thing that I would say to practice a little internal scoff when you hear people talking about these things or you see this on social media. It's okay to feel a little superior here, like I know better than that, or like that that kind of stuff is not gonna get through to me. I'm not falling for it. I know that's a trick. Like, really tell yourself that. That is the only thing that really helps me to separate, is like I I have done the work to know, and I am not going to let this dystopian mind game get to me. In 20 years, when the body standard is different, I want to be able to look back and say, yeah, I saw right through it. So try to remind yourself of that too. The other thing is look for people that feel the same way that you do because they do exist. While it might seem like everybody is on the same wavelength with this desire to lose weight at any cost, that is not true. I promise. And it might be true within your close-knit circle, but look for us out there. Obviously, I'm one of them, but I also want you to know every single one of my friends feels the same way that I do, whether they've had eating disorders or not. There are people online talking about this. If you've never listened to Jamila Jamil's podcast, she's recovered from an eating disorder and she has a lot of really important things to say about this resurgence of this body ideal coming back. Fill your mind with counterculture. Be a little rebellious. And the last thing I'll say here is tell yourself that you can wait it out. When I have felt really triggered to the point of wanting to start a diet or wanting to amp up exercise in such a way, or, you know, seen a weight loss ad, I would tell myself, like, okay, wait till next week and reassess. Give yourself a little bit of a buffer before you make an impulsive decision. And the other part of waiting it out is wait five years, it's gonna change again. Wait five years, we're going to have more evidence about what's going on with these medications. Wait five years, and the thin ideal is going to be different because fashion is going to change and what body is in vogue changes with it too. Give it time. I have faith that we'll all wake up one day, but it starts with talking about it and not falling for it and not pressing order and sitting at the table when everybody else is eating bird food and actually eating enough food, actually having a full dinner. You're allowed to do that, and it's actually kind of badass. Okay, well, I think I've rambled and ranted enough for today. I hope that some of this is reassuring to you as we charge ahead into the summertime. It's tough out there, everybody. Stay safe. Stay off social media as much as you can. And I hope that you just continue to eat your food. Do it because you know better. Do it because you're not going to let this continue on to the next generation. There's so many reasons why it's important for you to eat your food. Yeah, you're allowed to get frustrated that everybody else seems to have an easy quote-unquote solution to their body image issues and their body dissatisfaction, but it's not a real solution and you know better. Okay. Thanks for tuning in. Thank you for being here. As always, would so appreciate it if you would rate and review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. And if you're here on YouTube, giving the video a thumbs up and hitting subscribe helps me and the algorithm that seems to have turned against us all. It helps the algorithm promote a countercultural message like this one. So if you would like to help me get that message out to the world, please give this a thumbs up or a rating, share it with your friends. Hopefully, we can make some sort of difference on our small corner of the internet. But again, I so appreciate you listening. Please eat your food. Do it because you're rebellious. We're in this together. I'll be eating right along with you. And we will talk more next week. Bye.