’Tis the season of dieting, but living life to the max is not just for thin people | Deborah Coughlin

If you’re a bigger person desperate to try windsurfing, scuba diving or glow-in-the-dark spin, don’t wait to be thin – do it now

It’s now new year, but just how happy it’ll be for people with body image issues is in doubt. The national body confidence campaigning group Be Real recently carried out a media audit, revealing the increase in diet messaging that every January brings with it.

It warned against the “damaging impact of quick-fix fad diets on body image”, underlining the fact that people felt “an unbearable pressure to conform to an idealistic body shape at all stages of their lives”. Also included in the statement was a standout statistic claiming a fifth of Britons would be willing to sacrifice one of their fingers to have the perfect body.

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