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The F*ck It Diet: Eating Should Be Easy
by Caroline Dooner
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.