The Dukan Diet

Recently, I’ve been seeing a lot about the “Dukan Diet” when I go online and when I looked through some magazines. It started to become really popular after Kate Middleton and her mom apparently went on it to lose weight. The author is a French doctor that guides people on losing weight and the secret to staying thin like French women.
Reading about this made me think about what Susan Bordo was saying about feminine bodies and how our culture is all about image, nowadays. It’s a struggle for women to keep up with our modern culture and the representation of women as having to be skinny and fit. It seems like it’s not enough to just have a well-balanced diet and exercise. Everywhere I look there’s always some weird tips on staying in good shape and being as healthy as possible. There are constantly new ways to lose weight while doing this or shedding a pound while doing that. As Susan was saying, it’s hard to work to keep our bodies in shape. This takes up so much time and effort, and sometimes it appears that our culture is based around an obsession with being seen as healthy and portraying ourselves as fit and happy people to society.
I know for me and most of my friends, our lives are already so fast-paced and stressful. Thinking about weight and trying to maintain a good balance is tough and adds even more anxiety on a daily basis. It’s probably not helpful to be seeing new diets pop up everywhere a person looks. In the readings, it also talked about women having a fear of never being good enough. I feel like this may be a bit extreme, but there could be a part in our subconscious somewhere where we’re scared of not being perfect, and that could be what’s driving us to become more obsessed with our physical bodies.