Traditional fitness culture is rooted in punishment: "sweat for that dessert" or "burn off the holiday meal." This creates an adversarial relationship with exercise. Body positivity replaces "exercise" with .
Slater, A., & Tiggemann, M. (2015). A comparative study of the impact of traditional and social media on body image concerns in young women. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 44(1), 113-124.
Study after study shows that weight stigma and body shame lead to: