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jessspeake's review
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Alcohol, Eating disorder, and Panic attacks/disorders
jcstokes95's review against another edition
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
2.0
DNF @54%
Sometimes, I hear the voice of my dietitian in my brain and today I could hear her saying, stop reading this eating disorder nonsense. So I've decided upon the advice of my dietitian who lives in my head to put down this book. I cannot believe this has such a high rating and very few reviews mentions of the virulent fatphobia here. I would warn you off this book if you have an ED because of this one chapter.
What's really disappointing is I was actually liking the conversational tone of the first half and expected to close this out as a four star, easy-breezy celebrity self-help book. I feel that if this author had focused on the health effects and how she felt, I could have worked around this. All of us want to be healthy. But it was the description of her body and the clear hatred she had for the fat body that made me too annoyed to keep going with this.
Sometimes, I hear the voice of my dietitian in my brain and today I could hear her saying, stop reading this eating disorder nonsense. So I've decided upon the advice of my dietitian who lives in my head to put down this book. I cannot believe this has such a high rating and very few reviews mentions of the virulent fatphobia here. I would warn you off this book if you have an ED because of this one chapter.
What's really disappointing is I was actually liking the conversational tone of the first half and expected to close this out as a four star, easy-breezy celebrity self-help book. I feel that if this author had focused on the health effects and how she felt, I could have worked around this. All of us want to be healthy. But it was the description of her body and the clear hatred she had for the fat body that made me too annoyed to keep going with this.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Eating disorder and Fatphobia
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