Today, May 6th is the International No Diet Day.

What is it for?
- Celebrate the beauty and diversity of all our natural sizes & shapes
- Affirm everybody's right to health, fitness, and emotional well-being
- Declare a personal one-day moratorium on diet/weight obsession
- Learn the facts about weight-loss dieting, health, and body size
- Recognize how dieting perpetuates violence against women
- Honor the victims of eating disorders and weight-loss surgery
- Help end weight discrimination, sizism and fatphobia

What do you do?
- Give up dieting for one day, and celebrate healthy self-acceptance!
- Speak out! Have a picnic! Smash your bathroom scale!
- Down with Barbie dolls! Girls need new role models!

Who celebrates INDD?
INDD is for everyone! Since its origin in 1992, INDD has been celebrated by size acceptance, anti-diet, body image, and eating disorders activists, groups, and individuals around the world who want to empower people of all sizes. Events and activities will be held in cities around the world.

Things to teach:
- Food is not the enemy!
- The enemies are the diet and fashion industries!
- The enemies are advertising and television!
- Let's stop judging ourselves by what the scale says!
- Food is meant to be enjoyed!
- It's time to say no to the diet mentality!
- People come in all shapes and sizes!
- Size diversity forever!

Whats the origin of INDD?
In 1992, Mary Evans Young and Diet Breakers planned a no-diet picnic in Hyde Park in London. They asked people to think about whether diets really improve their lives. In 1993, No Diet Day came to the US, and has been celebrated worldwide since then. In years past, INDD celebrations have included scale smashings, demonstrations, and closet cleanings, where women take the clothes they have been saving "until they got thin", and donate them to shelters.

International No Diet Day (INDD) remains necessary because the media, the medical community, family, friends, and society in general constantly send out the message that fat is ugly, fat is unhealthy, and fat is something to lose at all costs. Discrimination in employment, health care, education, and housing exists for fat people. Fat people face accessibility issues daily.

This has caused an obsession with dieting in our world. Dieting obsession has led to deadly eating disorders, unhealthy use of diet pills, weight loss surgeries with serious long-term health degradation, and a myriad of health problems due to poor eating habits.

Obesity research shows that long term weight loss is unattainable by most people. No direct correlation has been found between a person's weight & their health/fitness level.