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kevenwang's review against another edition
4.0
I appreciate she helped me expand my understanding of “dieting”.
I did not know Michael Pollan counts as a diet author.
I would love to read more about intuitive eating. But I guess there is not much more you can say about it.
I did not know Michael Pollan counts as a diet author.
I would love to read more about intuitive eating. But I guess there is not much more you can say about it.
emmaaxtco's review against another edition
3.0
I am a big fan of Christy and her podcast Food Psych. So honestly I knew a lot of the information in this book already between having been exposed to her podcast and through reading both Laura Thomas and Caroline Dooner's books last year (Just Eat It and The F*ck It Diet).
Harrison does a great job of explaining how we got to this point, and I hadn't been aware of the history of the rise of diet culture so I found that really sad and fascinating. This is a great book for anyone who hasn't had their eyes open to the injustices of diet culture or "The Life Thief" as she calls it.
Studying the health sciences (physiotherapy specifically) I am constantly bombarded with diet culture BS and I see orthorexia and disordered eating behaviours all around me. To be female seems to be a life sentence of having boring conversations about all the ways we're all f*cked up around food. It's exhausting, frankly. And did I mention, BORING.
If you're looking to ditch diet culture and you want more of a "how to," then I would recommend Thomas or Dooner's books to help you begin a journey in intuitive eating. Harrison's book doesn't really give you the tools to begin an intuitive eating journey, but she's done a ton of good research to debunk diets once and for all so this is still definitely worth a read. I'm glad I've come to this movement now when my kids are young so that I can preserve their natural born abilities as intuitive eaters and help do my best to give them a peaceful relationship with food.
My only small complaint about this book is that I think Harrison waters down her own outrage at times by getting fired up but then following up bold statements with some degree of "well I don't want to offend anyone so I'll put a disclaimer here." Obviously not EVERY health practitioner is a monster; I don't need you to constantly take the wind out of your own sails. It goes without saying.
Also as a future physio I bristled a little about her suggestion not to prescribe exercise, but I think she means general exercise as opposed to prescribing movement specifically targeted to help neurological, cardiopulmonary and musculoskeletal disorders and injuries. So that's just me being oversensitive. She likely meant don't trigger people with eating disorder backgrounds into overexercise, which makes complete sense. I would NEVER prescribe exercise for weight loss, but it has so many incredible other benefits that if someone's coming to me for health advice I will definitely be recommending some form of movement, particularly strength-related. But I digress...
Harrison does a great job of explaining how we got to this point, and I hadn't been aware of the history of the rise of diet culture so I found that really sad and fascinating. This is a great book for anyone who hasn't had their eyes open to the injustices of diet culture or "The Life Thief" as she calls it.
Studying the health sciences (physiotherapy specifically) I am constantly bombarded with diet culture BS and I see orthorexia and disordered eating behaviours all around me. To be female seems to be a life sentence of having boring conversations about all the ways we're all f*cked up around food. It's exhausting, frankly. And did I mention, BORING.
If you're looking to ditch diet culture and you want more of a "how to," then I would recommend Thomas or Dooner's books to help you begin a journey in intuitive eating. Harrison's book doesn't really give you the tools to begin an intuitive eating journey, but she's done a ton of good research to debunk diets once and for all so this is still definitely worth a read. I'm glad I've come to this movement now when my kids are young so that I can preserve their natural born abilities as intuitive eaters and help do my best to give them a peaceful relationship with food.
My only small complaint about this book is that I think Harrison waters down her own outrage at times by getting fired up but then following up bold statements with some degree of "well I don't want to offend anyone so I'll put a disclaimer here." Obviously not EVERY health practitioner is a monster; I don't need you to constantly take the wind out of your own sails. It goes without saying.
Also as a future physio I bristled a little about her suggestion not to prescribe exercise, but I think she means general exercise as opposed to prescribing movement specifically targeted to help neurological, cardiopulmonary and musculoskeletal disorders and injuries. So that's just me being oversensitive. She likely meant don't trigger people with eating disorder backgrounds into overexercise, which makes complete sense. I would NEVER prescribe exercise for weight loss, but it has so many incredible other benefits that if someone's coming to me for health advice I will definitely be recommending some form of movement, particularly strength-related. But I digress...
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