DIET MENTALITY
Diet mentality is the thinking associated with diet culture. It is any thinking that there is a right way to eat or belief that there are food rules to follow for good health or to meet an accepted ideal of body weight, shape or size.
Diet mentality can be present in the absence of a conscious desire to lose weight, as food rules and attaching our self-worth to our eating can persist without the pursuit of weight loss. Diet mentality is prevalent due to weight bias and stigma, which perpetuates a fear of gaining weight and a perception that weight loss is good.