Diet culture and its cousins consumerism and capitalism

Remember when Kellogg's came up with the idea of a weight loss challenge that was buying and eating their Special K cereal? Then years later the CEO suggested buying and eating their cereal as dinner?

The early 2000s (and no, I cannot bring myself to say the early aughts) were a wild ride. I remember the Juicy Couture tracksuits, low-rise jeans, and arguing over who was the cuter boyband, NSYNC or The Backstreet Boys (it’s team BSB forever over here, by the way.) I was a teenager who was thinking about prom, college applications, and if my body resem…