Natasha Ngindi says learning to listen to her body's cues about hunger and fullness helped her eat better and feel better. (Submitted by Natasha Ngindi)

For most of my life, I believed my body was a problem. I believed that if I could just lose weight, everything would be better. I'd be more confident, I'd be happy and I'd finally feel good enough.

So I dieted. I exercised obsessively. I lost weight. And for a moment, I thought I had won. But the truth?

Diet culture stole years of my life before I broke free.

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As a child in South Africa, I grew up surrounded by family, culture and food that felt like love. There was no counting calories, no "good" or "bad" foods. We just ate, and we enjoy

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