The f*ck it diet Eating should be easy

Caroline Dooner

Book - 2019

"A funny, edgy, comprehensive program for chronic dieters to help them escape the plague of diet culture, regain their personal power, and reboot their relationship with food, weight and self-worth. What's the one thing the $60-billion-dollar diet industry doesn't want you to know? Diets don't work. Our bodies are hardwired against them. But instead of wondering what's wrong with dieting, we wonder what's wrong with us. Diet programs earn billions because they make people believe they're food addicts, lazy and weak, and that losing weight is the key to the life they truly want. The F*ck It Diet is the anti-diet, designed for anyone who feels guilt or pain over food, weight, and their bodies. Caroline Doone...r calls BS on the diet industry as she reveals the truth about weight bias, tackles the flawed approach inherent in dieting, and guides readers through the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual aspects of the journey from miserable food obsession to true food ease. Dooner encourages us to eat the things our bodies want, and to be happy being healthy at whatever weight that might be. The F*ck It Diet is the only diet that works because it tackles two things at once: the biological reality that dieting triggers the body's famine response, and the mental, emotional, and cultural reasons that we become obsessed with food. By taking diets off the cultural pedestal, Dooner contends, we can reclaim mealtimes as pleasure and nourishment instead of a misguided test of willpower. Feminist, counter-culture and empathetic, The F*ck It Diet is a fresh, irreverent, and empowering call-to-arms for everyone berating themselves over yesterday's donut. It's time to give up the shame and start eating to live--happily"--

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Published
New York, NY : Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers [2019]
Language
English
Main Author
Caroline Dooner (author)
Edition
First edition
Physical Description
xi, 280 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN
9780062883612
  • Introduction: This is not a diet book
  • Who this book is for
  • Why are we so addicted to food?
  • How the hell do I actually do this? The physical part ; The emotional part ; The mental part ; The thriving part.
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Comedian Dooner presents a lively case against dieting in an impassioned debut peppered with the titular expletive. A former raw vegan and yo-yo dieter, Dooner argues that dieting actually causes weight gain; a state of restriction, she asserts, causes the body to eventually fight back against "famine" by regaining all the weight lost, and then some. (In support, she cites research, including the WWII-era Minnesota Starvation Experiment and a more recent study.) Her plan, as she explains it, is less a traditional diet with set meal portions and an exercise regimen, and more a philosophy of how to "neutralize" the power of food while also eschewing the "dysfunctional hell" of dieting. Intended to keep one in the middle of a naturally-occurring weight range, it allows, temptingly, for eating when hungry, consuming carbs and sugar when desired, satisfying cravings, and engaging in "moderate" exercise. Dooner also offers five self-care tools, including a relaxing, mandatory 10-20-minute a day "Lie-Down," the "Breathe and Feel" (noticing physical sensations), and "The Belief Release" (in which readers let go of limiting beliefs). Readers who have churned through any number of diets before will enjoy Dooner's unorthodox and sincerely delivered guide. Agent: Susan Raihofer, David Black Agency. (Mar.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

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