Queer & Anti-Diet Movement 101
A course designed to empower you with the knowledge you need to challenge diet culture and perfectionistic beliefs about exercise. Explored through a queer lens, with specific focus on how queer identity impacts your relationship to food, your body and movement, this course is an introduction to approaching food and exercise from a place of curiosity, kindness and flexibility.
This course is for you if…
you’ve done some work unlearning diet culture already but every time you try to start exercising again, you fall back into old habits
you’ve never figured out a sustainable exercise routine and always feel like you’re starting over or failing at sticking to a program
exercise hasn’t been fun for you for a long time and you feel a lot of shame for not doing as much as you think you should
your struggles with food, body and exercise are influenced by your relationship to gender, sexuality and your queer identity
you’re pretty new to all this but know something needs to change - you don’t want to diet forever (in that case, I recommend starting here)
What you’ll get
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Eight weeks of video lessons that dig into topics varying from how to listen to your body, redefining consistency in exercise and queering your movement practice.
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Weekly journal prompts and exercises to help you further explore each topic from your own experience - because you know your body best.
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Interviews with other queer folks about their experience with food, body and exercise.
Course Content
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This lesson is all about aligning your values with your workouts (and vice versa). The importance of working towards something that actually matters to you in your movement practice is so underrated.
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So often we are just told to “listen to your body” without actually getting into how the hell to do that or why it might be easier said than done.
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In this lesson, we tackle the nuanced topic of how to show up for movement even when you don’t feel like it without forcing ourselves to do something we hate or feeling like exercise is some kind of punishment.
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This is an intro to how to get out of the binge-restrict cycle and an invitation to get more support if this pattern sounds all too familiar too you (I’ve been there!).
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In this lesson, we explore a broad overview of nutrition principles, emphasize adding in things, instead of removing anything from your diet and how to make sure you’re adequately fuelled for your workouts.
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This lesson is particularly relevant for my fellow folks who tend more towards the over-exercising end of the spectrum and is about how to recognize the signs that you’re doing a bit too much, not resting enough and/or not each enough to support your activity.
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Here we dive into one of my absolute favourite topics to talk about: consistency in exercise. We talk realistic expectations, taking breaks from exercise and how to build a life-long habit of movement.
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Here we apply principles of queer theory to exercise and explore the ways in which queer identity influences how we feel about food, body and exercise. This is also the section where you’ll find those interviews I mentioned!
Register now
This course is priced using a sliding scale. The full price is $78 CAD but you can access 25% and 50% reduced rate pricing during checkout if you don’t have the means to pay the full rate.
Looking for a preview?
Get your copy of an Introduction to Anti-Diet Movement which includes two video lessons about divesting from diet culture as a primer for the course. Learn about the ways in which diet culture might be showing up in your workouts and how to set anti-diet movement goals.