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Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating by Christy Harrison
4 reviews
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
bookedinmn's review
informative
reflective
medium-paced
3.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Eating disorder
Moderate: Body shaming, Fatphobia, and Medical content
Minor: Ableism, Racism, Suicide, and Toxic relationship
cathuluu's review
hopeful
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
4.5
Content Warnings
Moderate: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, and Medical content
whittenholmes's review
challenging
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
I am small. I have never had a clinical eating disorder. I don't weigh myself. I didn't think I needed this book. But I picked it up in support of my partner, who deals with size discrimination on a regular basis, and my mind was blown. Many times, in fact. Harrison lays out all of the facts around intentional weight loss and the history of the diet and wellness industry, debunks every myth with a cool and well-cited firmness, and tells the raw truth about the health realities faced by dieters—no matter their size. Thanks to this book I began, for the first time since my chronic illness began seven years ago, to understand my body's relationship to food and learn how to better listen to it. Everyone existing in diet culture (that is, everyone) should read this book. You deserve to know your options, and, for the sake of your mental health, to save your time, energy and money for the things that truly matter to you, and are actually within your control.
Content Warnings
Minor: Medical content
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