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Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating by Christy Harrison
2 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
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
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