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• Fat Talk

  Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture

  Sole-Smith, Virginia,

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  "Fat Talk is a stirring, deeply researched, and groundbreaking book that will help parents learn to reckon with their own body biases, identify diet culture, and empower their kids to navigate this challenging landscape. Sole-Smith draws…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Body Respect

  What Conventional Health Books Get Wrong, Leave Out, and Just Plain Fail to Understand About Weight

  Bacon, Lindo, 1963-

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  "Dr. Linda Bacon and Dr. Lucy Aphramor’s Body Respect debunks common myths about weight, including the misconceptions that BMI can accurately measure health, that fatness necessarily leads to disease, and that dieting will improve health.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Body Is Not An Apology

  the Power of Radical Self-love

  Taylor, Sonya Renee,

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  From Publishers Weekly: "Poet and activist Taylor (A Little Truth on Your Shirt) packs important ideas into this concise volume on body empowerment. “Radical self-love is not a destination you are trying to get to; it is who you already…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• More Than a Body

  Your Body Is An Instrument, Not An Ornament

  Kite, Lexie,

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  “More Than a Body is a welcome salve for those who are weary of the internal war with their body. Through their groundbreaking body image resilience model, Lexie and Lindsay offer many practical ways to make peace with your body, showing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Eating Instinct

  Food Culture, Body Image, and Guilt in America

  Sole-Smith, Virginia,

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  From the publisher: "The Eating Instinct visits kitchen tables around America to tell Sole-Smith’s own story, as well as the stories of women recovering from weight loss surgery, of people who eat only nine foods, of families with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Anti-diet

  Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating

  Harrison, Christy (Nutritionist),

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  A thorough analysis of the sexism, ableism, racism and classism that drive diet culture, as well as the billion dollar industries that prey on consumers by inventing problems and then selling solutions. This book will make you furious as…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Why Diets Make Us Fat

  the Unintended Consequences of Our Obsession With Weight Loss

  Aamodt, Sandra

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  A look into the neurological forces behind why dieting fails and how weight cycling and dieting often lead to long term health problems and not the health benefits they often promise. The closing chapters advise finding a source of daily…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Big Girl

  How I Gave Up Dieting and Got a Life

  Miller, Kelsey,

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  A journey through fat shaming, body dysmorphia, self loathing, restrictive dieting and weight cycling, and of eventually finding self acceptance and a better relationship with food through intuitive eating. Miller's voice in this…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat

  Gordon, Aubrey,

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  Aubrey Gordon uses both personal experience and research data to examine the anti-fat bias rampant in media, in the medical field, and in our everyday lives. I found it both affirming of some of my own experiences and challenging in that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Obesity Paradox

  When Thinner Means Sicker and Heavier Means Healthier

  Lavie, Carl J.,

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  Cardiologist Carl Lavie takes his observations of cardiology patients across a spectrum of weights to explore the phenomenon of the obesity paradox: Patients at higher weights, even into the "obese" range of the BMI, have better survival…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fat Girls Hiking

  An Inclusive Guide to Getting Outdoors at Any Size or Ability

  Michaud-Skog, Summer,

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  One of many infuriating ironies of fitness and diet industries is how they insinuate that fat people need to lose weight but are also extremely unwelcoming to fat people. "Fat Girls Hiking" confronts this irony with a collection of essays…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• F*ck Your Diet

  and Other Things My Thighs Tell Me

  Hilliard, Chloé,

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  There are moments in this memoir where Hilliard comes so close to dismantling diet culture, only to buy back into it by promoting cleanses or advocating for lifestyles that are not always attainable for the average person. However, she…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The (other) F Word

  a Celebration of the Fat & Fierce

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  From Kirkus reviews, "Fat adults will wish they'd had this book growing up, and fat teens will finally feel seen. Frank and fabulous."

• Every Body Shines

  Sixteen Stories About Living Fabulously Fat

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  So much of our media suggests it would be unrealistic or unrelatable to tell a story where the fat character is the hero, instead presenting fat characters as comedic relief, the sidekick, or as lonely, unhealthy, pitiful, or amoral. This…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• "You Just Need to Lose Weight"

  and 19 Other Myths About Fat People

  Gordon, Aubrey,

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  I am very excited for this follow-up to Gordon's first book. For anyone looking to challenge the idea that fat acceptance glorifies fatness, I think this book will be very illuminating. From the publisher, "Bringing her dozen years of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Maintenance Phase Podcast

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  Co-hosts Aubrey Gordon (whose books are both featured on this list) and journalist Michael Hobbes delve into and dismantle diet and wellness trends, from the ridiculous to the downright dangerous. Whether they are discussing influencers,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• She's a Beast Newsletter

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  Maybe you are resolved about starting a new fitness routine, but want to approach it in a way that's not focused on weight loss. Or maybe you have fitness goals, and want to approach them in a way that's not reductive. I really appreciate…Read moreRead more of this annotation