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Dynamic Duo Don't

Mar 01, 2021

I walked into my daughter's room to say goodnight and stopped dead in my tracks at her doorway. 

"Hey! What are you doing?" I asked casually. 

"What do you mean?" she asked confused. 

"Ummmm, you have a bright neon pink fuzzy belt woven into your hair." 

"Oh, that! That's just my bathrobe belt and I'm using it to curl my hair. My friend at dance told me alllll about it." she said excitedly. 

Wow, I thought. SO creative. This must be how all the famous duos are born. Some clever people put two seemingly unrelated items together and make magic. 

Peanut butter and jelly. French fries and Ketchup. Pancakes and syrup. Salt and caramel. Spice and lattes. Hot waffles and ice cream.

You know what two things don't go together, but the gurus are trying to get you to buy? 

Intuitive Fasting. 

Enter Gwyneth Paltrow and her new obsession she's co-promoting with a doctor. Promoter of the vagina egg, vaginal steams and radical detoxes, she's now singing the praises of her "intuitive fasting cleanse program". This isn't the first time that she or the diet industry has co-opted an anti-diet phrase or word to make their diet scheme sound "legit" or "natural" or "pure". Don't be fooled. A diet by any other name is still the four letter word that it is......DIET. You know the phrase, it's basically "putting lipstick on a pig". 

Don't be duped by these tactics.  A pig is still a pig, and this diet is still full of all the fundamental failings of a regular diet. The diet industry is constantly trying to come up with ways to sound fresh, new, relevant and safe when their strategies are anything but. The very first diets looked much like keto and atkins hundreds of years ago. The only thing that's changed over the years is the face and "miracle" story behind a person's success story. And let's not forget that there's money to be made. 

Let's be smarter than Gwyneth. There's nothing intuitive about fasting. NOTHING. There's no part of us that naturally stops eating on our own accord. We are mammals in need of constant energy to keep our brains and bodies working optimally. It bears repeating that dieting is felt and experienced by the body as a traumatic event. Starvation, whether voluntary or involuntary, is extremely dangerous. 

We constantly need to check in with our own intuition when we see these "brand new", "safe and effective" plans. Don't be fooled by Gwyneth's dynamic duo. 

Do try the bathrobe belt hair though. You may just want to have your salted caramel and spiced latte while you wait for your curly hair. 

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