informative medium-paced

As a therapist with a long history of my own complicated relationship with food, exercise, and my body, I’ve taken a keen interest in the past few years in dismantling diet culture to better serve my clientele. This was one of the best resources I’ve picked up yet. Also, as the parent of a young girl, the conversations in this book were invaluable in giving me tools for some of the situations I’ve already been considering may come up when my daughter learns to talk. This book was so well researched and I felt the author did an incredible job of remaining compassionate to the subjects of her stories as well as leaving room for nuance and grace as she gave tools for navigating this minefield of a topic. I’ve been recommending it to therapist and parent friends.

aubreyfrogger's review

4.25
challenging informative reflective medium-paced

I found this book really helpful but at the same time it brought up a lot of internal feelings that I’m still dealing with in my own journey of acceptance and unlearning anti-fat bias. The chapter on how dads affect their daughters was quite intense for me especially. 

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elizabethmcspencer's review

4.5
challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

tarabarschina's review

4.75
emotional informative medium-paced

I think this book does have a few good points - I especially liked the part where the author discusses the lax teaching standards around diet in the classroom. Unfortunately, this book is marred by argumentative inconsistency and an undiscerning eye towards favorable points of view.
informative reflective slow-paced
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franniepack's review

5.0
informative medium-paced

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This was recommended by a friend and I devoured it. I dogeared many pages and recorded and reflected on them in my journal. It is amazing how pervasive fat phobia and anti-fatness are in our culture and in how I was raised. I made some immediate changes that I realized were adding to my negative body image self talk and have some long term work to do. And it has ways I can talk to my child with thin privilege and my child who is small fat about how fat people deserve respect, and support. A must read for any parent who eats food.
informative reflective medium-paced