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lauren_renee's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
Best book on eating disorder recovery that I've read so far. Super informative and helpful.
kate_leitch_10's review against another edition
hopeful
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
fast-paced
4.0
heather_leila's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
4.5
charissa_g's review against another edition
4.0
Found this very interesting. If you’ve ever wondered why don’t women have more influence in the world, how about the idea that patriarchy manipulates fashion to keep women down? This seemed too far fetched but once I started looking and listening I found that there are examples all around.
The dominance of diet and exercise programmes and the detrimental effect they have, the powerful algorithms employed by social media and advertising, demonising foods and eating, our perceptions of what healthy looks like are all examined in detail in this book.
Some of it was a bit too deep for me but overall it’s definitely one that I will be mulling over for a while and if “the diet starts tomorrow” has been your mantra at any point put this on your to read list.
The dominance of diet and exercise programmes and the detrimental effect they have, the powerful algorithms employed by social media and advertising, demonising foods and eating, our perceptions of what healthy looks like are all examined in detail in this book.
Some of it was a bit too deep for me but overall it’s definitely one that I will be mulling over for a while and if “the diet starts tomorrow” has been your mantra at any point put this on your to read list.
readwithjules_'s review against another edition
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5.0
For me, this is definitely one of those books that I will want to read again for the first time. To say that my relationship with my body and the the things that affect it has become clearer would be an understatement.
The way this book was written and the way Alex went about certain subjects is truly something that I admire. Acknowledging her privilege and bringing in professionals to speak on certain things was something I loved so much.
I don't have a single complaint about this book.
The way this book was written and the way Alex went about certain subjects is truly something that I admire. Acknowledging her privilege and bringing in professionals to speak on certain things was something I loved so much.
I don't have a single complaint about this book.
meg1983's review against another edition
5.0
Life changing! Highly recommended for everyone who has ever dealt with body image issues, or lives with someone who has (which is almost everyone in the first world!)
rachelsidwell's review against another edition
5.0
Oh my word, where do I start with this book? Best book I’ve read all year? Yes. Most inspiring book I’ve read for a while? Yes. No. No, wait, most inspiring book I’ve maybe ever read? Yes. This book will change lives. Everyone needs to read it and I am already compiling a long list of people I want to personally send it to. Alex Light has first hand experience of eating disorders and our strange societal obsession with food and fat, and this is truly a guide to break the obsessions we have with both and find peace with our bodies. As a person who has always had a strange relationship with food, and my first memory of being called chunky in year one, at the age of, get this, 6?! This is a book I wish I had had when I was younger, maybe when I slim fasted at age 13 (effing hell!). A brilliant journey through the harmful world of diets, our relationships with food and exercise, our body image, and much much more. I honestly think this is such an inspiring, honest, and eye opening book and I really can’t recommend it enough to, well, everyone. Go and buy it (Waterstones plz)! Spread it far and wide, follow her immediately, make it part of the curriculum, live and breathe it. Go go go. Thank you Alex! X