Whew. I was wholly unprepared for the white middle class woman culture of dieting. I only recently figured out that one never has to actually become thin or "fit", which I have no idea what that means. They must only perform WANTING to become it. Thus, the apps, tips, etc.
There was a template for this in my cultural toolkit. You are supposed to be eternally suspended in almost-thinness. I have no idea how to do that. To perform it, I download food tracking apps and learn to say "whole 30" every second day of the week. That seems to help.
But really the near-obsessive focus on food/eating/dieting/thinness in modern interracial, mixed-class work spaces and social spaces is very, very challenging for me, too.
This is place where some exposure to black upper class culture probably could have helped me a lot. My adult sense of it is that black people with Jack and Jill kind of lives are most similar to white women's middle/upper class cultures in this: they talk a lot about thinness
That just didn't happen a lot at the Boys and Girls Club lol
