Caroline Dooner

This is an anti-diet book, a book that wants us to celebrate eating and to enjoy it and to stop fussing about diets and being the perfect self and instead embracing life and all it's messiness. She does say that you should pay attention to medical experts if you're dealing with health issues and that you should try to eat good food in variety but that sometimes you need to reflect on the whys of overeating, if you do it, and that sometimes it is because you have needs that aren't being met by your current diet. Minerals you're not getting.
Her basic thesis is that we are living in a world where we have convinced our bodies that we are living in famine conditions and that has become counterproductive. Her goal is to get people to neutralise food, to avoid food that's empty and eat real food. Then to sit with our emptions about food and to thrive instead of hurting ourselves.

I think it's a worthwhile read and should be embraced as a philosophy by a lot of people… (més)

I LOVED this book! It was exactly what I needed. As a chronic dieter who's trying to heal her relationship with food and her body, I've been diving into learning about intuitive eating, which led me to the anti-diet movement and this book.

I resonate so powerfully with everything Dooner teaches, and I spent most of my reading time making notes, journaling, and analyzing my history with diets and disordered eating. I'm committed to healing, which means doing the hard work of walking through the world as someone not obsessed with thinness, or equating skinny with healthy. This book is going on my permanent reference shelf, and I know I'll be re-reading it over and over again.… (més)

3 stars for:
-A mindset that I’ve been trying to accept more recently (letting go of fatphobia, bribing in self love, rejecting diet culture)
-The chapters on emotional and mental acceptance were very well done and resonated hard with me
-Author admits her thin privilege, though I do wish she went further into the feminist issues she alluded to, or even got into the white western centric standards that are behind diet culture

-Some of the studies that the author goes over don’t seem to have a lot of support or citations behind them
-It still comes across as intuitive eating when you get to the bare bones of it all

Some of the exercises are ones Id like to revisit so I’d like to buy the book myself and re-read in the future.
… (més)