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OMG, this book was eye opening for me! I need to go back through and complete the exercises, but I’m hoping this is what I need to change my thinking and to help me finally get to a place where I can love myself as is.
I tend to shy away from self help books, but this popped up either on Facebook or my Bookstagram and the title grabbed me immediately. The premise of this is today’s society and culture are so focused on being thin that people are literally putting their bodies into famine mode. Because of this people’s metabolism slows down, this makes the weight impossible to lose. We are told if we are anything other than thin than we are ugly, stupid, gross, etc., and we tell ourselves this in an attempt to hate ourselves to thin. It doesn’t work.
This book teaches you to love yourself as you are. Everyone is built differently and some people are larger but are still healthy just like some people are thin and unhealthy. This has you learn food neutrality. Eat what you want and soon enough your body will tell you what you need. Don’t restrict food, since that tricks your body into thinking you’re in starvation which lowers your metabolism, which keeps the weight on. When you learn to eat without restriction you won’t feel the urge to binge because you know you can eat whenever and whatever.
I’m still having a hard time wrapping my head around this, but I’m tired of looking in the mirror and hating what I see. I’m tired of feeling guilty for indulging in ice cream, and I’m really tired of feeling like I’m starving myself and working up a sweat but not seeing any results.
Caroline Dooner’s writing is so real. It felt like I was getting a pep talk from a friend throughout the entirety of this. She has included all of her research and a complete bibliography, which gives me some peace of mind that this isn’t just mumbo jumbo.
I tend to shy away from self help books, but this popped up either on Facebook or my Bookstagram and the title grabbed me immediately. The premise of this is today’s society and culture are so focused on being thin that people are literally putting their bodies into famine mode. Because of this people’s metabolism slows down, this makes the weight impossible to lose. We are told if we are anything other than thin than we are ugly, stupid, gross, etc., and we tell ourselves this in an attempt to hate ourselves to thin. It doesn’t work.
This book teaches you to love yourself as you are. Everyone is built differently and some people are larger but are still healthy just like some people are thin and unhealthy. This has you learn food neutrality. Eat what you want and soon enough your body will tell you what you need. Don’t restrict food, since that tricks your body into thinking you’re in starvation which lowers your metabolism, which keeps the weight on. When you learn to eat without restriction you won’t feel the urge to binge because you know you can eat whenever and whatever.
I’m still having a hard time wrapping my head around this, but I’m tired of looking in the mirror and hating what I see. I’m tired of feeling guilty for indulging in ice cream, and I’m really tired of feeling like I’m starving myself and working up a sweat but not seeing any results.
Caroline Dooner’s writing is so real. It felt like I was getting a pep talk from a friend throughout the entirety of this. She has included all of her research and a complete bibliography, which gives me some peace of mind that this isn’t just mumbo jumbo.
This book won't speak to everyone.
It speaks to me. And I feel better.
That's all I f*cking care about
It speaks to me. And I feel better.
That's all I f*cking care about
If you’re still looking to lose weight after reading this book then you missed the point.
As a closeted, deep yo-yo dieter, I spent the last 12 years obsessing over my weight and calorie counting. I found this book about 6 months after I just felt exhausted and had enough.
I’m giving it four stars because I do wish there were even more citations to support a lot of what was shared in the Emotional and Mental parts.
But overall, this book spoke to everything I’d been feeling and gave me a very different and more open-minded perspective to heal my relationship with food. It’s open the door for me to keep reading more on the IE and HAES subjects.
As a closeted, deep yo-yo dieter, I spent the last 12 years obsessing over my weight and calorie counting. I found this book about 6 months after I just felt exhausted and had enough.
I’m giving it four stars because I do wish there were even more citations to support a lot of what was shared in the Emotional and Mental parts.
But overall, this book spoke to everything I’d been feeling and gave me a very different and more open-minded perspective to heal my relationship with food. It’s open the door for me to keep reading more on the IE and HAES subjects.
Not perfect, but extremely helpful as a mental framework. Highly recommend the audiobook!
Concept of this book requires much inner work, letting go of control, accepting whatever comes next. Tough but good
This is the best book on intuitive eating I have read yet. It provides practical steps for unlearning of a lifetime of diet culture and family and social pressure to make your body smaller than it wants to be. I had so many "YES!" moments listening to this audiobook and I plan to go back and read the paper book as well so I can slow down and take my time to do the writing prompts. Caroline is so relatable, her experiences mirror mine and SO MANY women I know. I wish I could make every woman read this. I feel like this is the book that finally changed the game for me. Already, I look at myself in the mirror and it's the same body it's always been but instead of looking for things to pick apart or cringing at the way my body has changed, I can honestly say FUCK IT. My body is a body, it's doing what it was made to do. It wasn't made to starve, it doesn't deserve punishment or criticism for keeping me alive, keeping me healthy and making me ME. The perspective, science, and tools that this book provide are so liberating, it's almost hard to believe. I know that my brain will never be the same. Knowing what I know now, I will never diet or restrict again. My perspective has shifted so drastically that it's hard to even describe but I see it as a gift. I am so grateful for this book and I can't recommend it enough. Read it, please.
Hmm. A bit of cognitive dissonance going on here after reading this book. Along with many readers, it has definitely challenged my deeply ingrained thoughts towards dieting, slimness, weight gain and health. There's a big part of me that wants to believe this book is totally wrong and that there is a "perfect" diet, scratch that, LIFESTYLE, out there that will help me lose weight, keep it off forever, while never feeling restricted or compromised. Like, just move more, eat less, right?! But, Caroline makes valid point after valid point about why diets don't work and how neutralizing food is the end goal to get off the hamster wheel that is yo-yo dieting.
It's right there in the title - fuck it: eating should be easy. But Dooner does incredible work taking down diet culture and encouraging readers to eat food and give up restriction. That sounds simple but if you, like me, have been steeped in diet culture since birth (and if you are alive, you have been), it is challenging to get out of the mindset that smaller bodies are better and thin axiomatically = healthy. The book is primarily focused on readers with eating disorders and binge eating but if you are a person who wants to enjoy food, nourish yourself and not release yourself of diets, then this is a great read.
Absolutely loved this and love Caroline Dooner (her podcast is hilarious). I have started my own journey on the f**k it diet and thus far my life has already changed for the better (a lot more work to do but I feel like I'm on my way!)
challenging
hopeful
medium-paced
While I appreciate the premise of this book, the author cherry picks and misrepresents studies throughout, and everything she said could’ve been said in 100 pages. The repetition was exhausting.
As a recovering wellness junkie myself, I’m pretty sure Caroline’s version of the Fuck It Diet was inspired by Ray Peat’s pro-metabolic diet (she cites his work in the book), which has gotten popular on Instagram over the past few years. She also cites a study by Chris Kresser, who’s a functional medicine guy, and claims the Intersalt study proved that a certain tribe didn’t consume much salt but still had a low life expectancy therefore lots of salt is good… The whole book just reeks of wellness girlie grasping at straws to support what she wants to believe.
About 50 pages in, I went to her IG so that I could follow her, and wow. Since publishing TFID, she has fallen so far down the right wing conspiracy rabbit hole, it’s appalling. It seems like she has embraced radicalism throughout her life as a way to feel special and keep engagement on social media. She’s now transphobic, homophobic, pro-Christian nationalism. She’s also weirdly vocal (and wrong) about seed oils.
If you’ve ever been deep into wellness and conspiracies, you’ll probably notice the subtle foreshadowing as you read this book. The signs are all there.
The book gets one star for being easy to read, and being anti diet. However, take all of it with a grain of salt (lol), because the studies she lists are often cherry picked and/or poorly interpreted, and just saying “fuck it” and eating everything in sight isn’t the right approach for every body.
As a recovering wellness junkie myself, I’m pretty sure Caroline’s version of the Fuck It Diet was inspired by Ray Peat’s pro-metabolic diet (she cites his work in the book), which has gotten popular on Instagram over the past few years. She also cites a study by Chris Kresser, who’s a functional medicine guy, and claims the Intersalt study proved that a certain tribe didn’t consume much salt but still had a low life expectancy therefore lots of salt is good… The whole book just reeks of wellness girlie grasping at straws to support what she wants to believe.
About 50 pages in, I went to her IG so that I could follow her, and wow. Since publishing TFID, she has fallen so far down the right wing conspiracy rabbit hole, it’s appalling. It seems like she has embraced radicalism throughout her life as a way to feel special and keep engagement on social media. She’s now transphobic, homophobic, pro-Christian nationalism. She’s also weirdly vocal (and wrong) about seed oils.
If you’ve ever been deep into wellness and conspiracies, you’ll probably notice the subtle foreshadowing as you read this book. The signs are all there.
The book gets one star for being easy to read, and being anti diet. However, take all of it with a grain of salt (lol), because the studies she lists are often cherry picked and/or poorly interpreted, and just saying “fuck it” and eating everything in sight isn’t the right approach for every body.