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Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating by Christy Harrison
16 reviews
tgutauskas's review
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Fatphobia
Moderate: Eating disorder
carolineberry12's review
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
This book is transformative! As someone who has lived in a bigger body or BELIEVED I was too big for most of my life- this is the information I need to move forward and have the life that I want.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Eating disorder and Fatphobia
Minor: Suicidal thoughts
katharina90's review against another edition
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
"It's not possible to heal our relationship with food and body while trying to control the size and shape of our body."
-Dana Sturtevant
Decent resource on the harmful nature of diet culture, disordered eating and compulsive exercise.
Includes topics like:
-Why diets don't work
-The health risks associated with weight stigma, weight cycling, etc.
-Social determinants of health
-Working towards a balanced relationship with food through intuitive eating and health at every size. ("Self care instead of self control.")
The author sadly fails to acknowledge that moral values absolutely factor into our food choices (even if we're unaware). Allergies are not the only situation in which someone might avoid or eliminate certain foods for non-diet culture reasons.
Yes, labeling foods good/bad is problematic and often linked to oppressive ideas. AND so are many other deeply held beliefs that impact what we eat. You can stop demonizing donuts and still uphold oppression and supremacist beliefs through your food choices.
What I find irritating is when people talk about social justice and body liberation and then pick and choose what bodies that applies to.
-Dana Sturtevant
Decent resource on the harmful nature of diet culture, disordered eating and compulsive exercise.
Includes topics like:
-Why diets don't work
-The health risks associated with weight stigma, weight cycling, etc.
-Social determinants of health
-Working towards a balanced relationship with food through intuitive eating and health at every size. ("Self care instead of self control.")
The author sadly fails to acknowledge that moral values absolutely factor into our food choices (even if we're unaware). Allergies are not the only situation in which someone might avoid or eliminate certain foods for non-diet culture reasons.
Yes, labeling foods good/bad is problematic and often linked to oppressive ideas. AND so are many other deeply held beliefs that impact what we eat. You can stop demonizing donuts and still uphold oppression and supremacist beliefs through your food choices.
What I find irritating is when people talk about social justice and body liberation and then pick and choose what bodies that applies to.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Eating disorder, Fatphobia, and Body shaming
Minor: Ableism, Suicidal thoughts, and Cultural appropriation
albernikolauras's review
informative
3.0
Book is what it says it is - a treatise about why intuitive eating is better than dieting. But not very actionable otherwise.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Eating disorder
sweetchocolatez's review against another edition
informative
slow-paced
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Fatphobia, Eating disorder, Suicidal thoughts, Misogyny, Racism, Classism, Body shaming, and Bullying
blackcatkai's review against another edition
challenging
hopeful
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
5.0
CW: eating disorders and disordered eating in general, fatphobia/body shaming, mentions of body and gender dysphoria, racism and colonisation, sexism/misogyny, ableism
"you are allowed to eat for any reason you freaking well feel like it, any time you want"
this book was absolutely astounding. i like the way Christy Harrison sectioned everything as well as how information was overall presented. i know that studies/history will always cater to cis-normative language, but seeing Harrison not only do her best to use truly inclusive language when writing from her own self (as in: not quoting someone else) as well as speaking to marginalised individuals and at least one professional in the trans healthcare field was so amazing to read. as an afab nonbinary person myself, it's often so hard to read books about anything in the science or healthcare sectors without feeling like deflated over all the cis-normative language. a nice change of pace that i, for one, am so grateful for.
Harrison not only goes over the history of diet culture as a whole, but also gives time to issues of: racism, abelism, classism, and other systemic issues that are either forgotten about when the topic arises or completely ingrained within the culture itself. her mentioning how food insecurity and wealth disparities have a huge impact on what people can even hace access to is so important in this conversation and that needs to be noted and remembered.
Harrison also talks about her own journey in her field as well as her history with eating disorders. we get practical ways to engage in the conversation, potential ways to begin advocating for ourselves and others as well as ways to start weaving these ideas into social justice work, if that's a thing one wanted to do. there really is just so much information, practical and otherwise, that i highly recommend it if you wish to go on your own journey away from Diet Culture and western beauty standards.
note that this book does talk about intuitive eating itself, as the subtitle implies, but it isn't as huge a topic as you might think. there are tips as well as information about IE, but there may be other more in-depth books specifically that may be better for anyone JUST looking for that. a strictly intuitive eating guide this is not, but Harrison does mention what IE is, isn't, and some misconceptions people have had about it over time. so i'd say it's still worth a read overall, for you!
"you are allowed to eat for any reason you freaking well feel like it, any time you want"
this book was absolutely astounding. i like the way Christy Harrison sectioned everything as well as how information was overall presented. i know that studies/history will always cater to cis-normative language, but seeing Harrison not only do her best to use truly inclusive language when writing from her own self (as in: not quoting someone else) as well as speaking to marginalised individuals and at least one professional in the trans healthcare field was so amazing to read. as an afab nonbinary person myself, it's often so hard to read books about anything in the science or healthcare sectors without feeling like deflated over all the cis-normative language. a nice change of pace that i, for one, am so grateful for.
Harrison not only goes over the history of diet culture as a whole, but also gives time to issues of: racism, abelism, classism, and other systemic issues that are either forgotten about when the topic arises or completely ingrained within the culture itself. her mentioning how food insecurity and wealth disparities have a huge impact on what people can even hace access to is so important in this conversation and that needs to be noted and remembered.
Harrison also talks about her own journey in her field as well as her history with eating disorders. we get practical ways to engage in the conversation, potential ways to begin advocating for ourselves and others as well as ways to start weaving these ideas into social justice work, if that's a thing one wanted to do. there really is just so much information, practical and otherwise, that i highly recommend it if you wish to go on your own journey away from Diet Culture and western beauty standards.
note that this book does talk about intuitive eating itself, as the subtitle implies, but it isn't as huge a topic as you might think. there are tips as well as information about IE, but there may be other more in-depth books specifically that may be better for anyone JUST looking for that. a strictly intuitive eating guide this is not, but Harrison does mention what IE is, isn't, and some misconceptions people have had about it over time. so i'd say it's still worth a read overall, for you!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Eating disorder and Fatphobia
Moderate: Medical content, Racism, Sexism, Colonisation, Misogyny, and Body shaming
Minor: Ableism
applesaucecreachur's review
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
5.0
I don't say this lightly: This book could save lives. Masterfully researched and sensitively informed, Anti-Diet tugs at the threads of our girdled ideas about food and bodies. But Harrison does not stop with a scathing take-down of the diet mentality and the racist, sexist, and colonial traditions that uphold it, though – She moves on to address her readers' and collaborators' lived experiences, and tips to inform individual recovery from diet and "wellness" culture. The number of passages I highlighted and pages I dog-eared to return to later are countless. Living into these ideals of restoration, advocacy, and self-trust will fuel whatever mission I am destined for. We are all more powerful together and in-step with our own bodies.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Eating disorder
Moderate: Racism and Colonisation
onkenzisshelf's review against another edition
challenging
informative
inspiring
fast-paced
5.0
“If there’s one thing I hope you’ll take from this book, it’s this: You don’t have to spend all your time worrying about food and your body.”
Everyone needs to read this book. Diet culture is SO ingrained into our society and this book opened my eyes to the things I think and the ways I feel that are a result of that. Christy Harrison provides facts and first hand accounts which all make this book into a beautiful learning experience. It's a great starting point on the anti-diet culture journey and I HIGHLY recommend. I feel like I have the resources and information I need to burn diet culture to the ground, one step at a time.
This book can absolutely be triggering at times, but it is very important and I think Harrison deals with the hard topics respectfully and gently. Reading this has absolutely been a pivotal moment for me and I look forward to continuing on this journey.
Everyone needs to read this book. Diet culture is SO ingrained into our society and this book opened my eyes to the things I think and the ways I feel that are a result of that. Christy Harrison provides facts and first hand accounts which all make this book into a beautiful learning experience. It's a great starting point on the anti-diet culture journey and I HIGHLY recommend. I feel like I have the resources and information I need to burn diet culture to the ground, one step at a time.
This book can absolutely be triggering at times, but it is very important and I think Harrison deals with the hard topics respectfully and gently. Reading this has absolutely been a pivotal moment for me and I look forward to continuing on this journey.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Fatphobia and Eating disorder
lowkeymarie's review
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
5.0
📣 READ. 📣 THIS. 📣 BOOK.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Eating disorder and Fatphobia