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A review by violet_gray
Just Eat It: How intuitive eating can help you get your shit together around food by Laura Thomas
sad
slow-paced
1.75
Tl;dr : this book is a social justice manifesto, not a self improvement book focused on improving your relationship with food. For misrepresenting it’s it gets 1 star.
This should have been a podcast series and a blog post.
The long version.
If still need to come to term with your body shape and size and are looking to deconstruct the BS society piles on us, then this is a great book.
If you have done all that work and are just looking concrete help specifically around dealing with food: this book won’t help much . There is some useful info here but it’s not worth trudging through this poorly written book.
On the writing itself. This book feels like the transcript for a podcast: highly oral in a “fellow kids” style. And who would have thought… a podcast script does not a book make. Even as an audiobook I struggled listening to this.
After chapters of talking to us like we’re at some one woman debate panel, there’s a chapter of just lists! This is not hyperbolically. It is literally a chapter of lists of macro-nutrients.
This should have been a podcast series and a blog post.
Just goes to show that if you aren’t offered a book deal, you shouldn’t always take it
This book is, in the author’s own words a manifesto for social change.
This is social change that is needed.
All her points on this are valid.
The fact that she was dishonest in her pitch grinds my gears immensely.
As a social worker with eco-anxiety trying to recover from a burn out I do not need this preachy bs.
I will read social issues books when I have the energy to engage with them and don’t appreciate having them shoved down my throat when I’m trying to engage in selfcare, a process that the author knows is challenging .
This should have been a podcast series and a blog post.
The long version.
If still need to come to term with your body shape and size and are looking to deconstruct the BS society piles on us, then this is a great book.
If you have done all that work and are just looking concrete help specifically around dealing with food: this book won’t help much . There is some useful info here but it’s not worth trudging through this poorly written book.
On the writing itself. This book feels like the transcript for a podcast: highly oral in a “fellow kids” style. And who would have thought… a podcast script does not a book make. Even as an audiobook I struggled listening to this.
After chapters of talking to us like we’re at some one woman debate panel, there’s a chapter of just lists! This is not hyperbolically. It is literally a chapter of lists of macro-nutrients.
This should have been a podcast series and a blog post.
Just goes to show that if you aren’t offered a book deal, you shouldn’t always take it
This book is, in the author’s own words a manifesto for social change.
This is social change that is needed.
All her points on this are valid.
The fact that she was dishonest in her pitch grinds my gears immensely.
As a social worker with eco-anxiety trying to recover from a burn out I do not need this preachy bs.
I will read social issues books when I have the energy to engage with them and don’t appreciate having them shoved down my throat when I’m trying to engage in selfcare, a process that the author knows is challenging .
Content Warnings
Minor: Classism, Eating disorder, Addiction, Cursing, Body shaming, and Fatphobia