Show Notes: The most beneficial diet for adolescent girls includes social-emotional and mental health items, not calories.
Perhaps there is a different, healthier kind of diet plan that would better suit the developmental and social-emotional needs of girls in grade school on up. Here are some items girls may want to consider giving up = a mental health diet.
Friendship items to let go of
Fitting in
Hanging onto toxic friends
Non-verbal relationship aggressions
Caring what other people think
Talking about others behind their backs & spreading rumors
Increasing self-awareness about things that hurt them
Good Girl conditioning
Comparing themselves to peers and online people
The value of restricting social media
Restricting social media
Mental health issues girls can take charge of
Old, negative beliefs about themselves
Catching themselves when ruminating & switching their thoughts
Making decisions based on pleasing or not disappointing others
Removing excuses for not practicing regular self-care
Let go of all the excuses for why they don’t practice regular self-care
Instead of focusing on dieting to look hot in their bathing suit this school year, girls would do better to let go of the unhealthy patterns in the 12 points above. They would feel more content, confident, relaxed, fulfilled, powerful, and happy.
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