Yeah, you heard me!!
Ok so I randomly heard about this book and promptly bought myself a copy ($5 off Trademe - thank you very much!!). Its written by two short, and self-confessed fatties who have lost weight countless times, only to gain it back, plus some. The idea of this book is to ditch the diets and self-loathing and learning to like yourself as you are. Excuse me?? People are allowed to like themselves if they are fat? I thought that was against the point? I thought that was the whole reason that the diet industry - with their programmes and books and 'help' - make millions of dollars. Cos fat = unhappy.
Now I will admit that I am only one chapter into the book, as I only started it today. But already I love it. Well, I love their style of writing. They swear, they tell things how it is, they criticise the media in the best ways. Its awesome.
I dont know the ladies who wrote it. I am not getting paid to promote them or anything like that. It just so far, within like 20 pages, has made me cracking up laughing. A self-help style book. Bizarre but true.
For more info on it: http://www.allenandunwin.com/default.aspx?page=94&book=9781741758498
The writers themselves have blogs and recommend blogs of others, so you will be able to find them in my 'links' as I get further into the book :)
3 comments:
I agree with the love yourself at any size thing, but I DON'T agree with being happy about poor health. I also wouldn't agree that it's a reason not to lose weight, IF that's what they're saying. If they are, that is a total cop-out, and a bad case of sour grapes.
In fact I reckon you HAVE to love yourself to lose weight. You have to believe that you deserve to be healthy! And you do!
yeah its more about learning to listen to your body and eat what makes you happy, and do exercise you enjoy, rather than just doing it cos "they" tell you to. And how fat people can be healthy and you dont have to be thin to be happy mostly.
But yeah - I do have to learn to love myself in order to lose weight and KEEP IT OFF.
The big point I have found is that dieting is bull - you will never find a diet that works, because the point of a diet is that it is a short term action, so even if you manage to stick with it to the conclusion the weight goes back on afterwards... the thing about weight loss, the only thing that actually works, is permanent lifestyle change. And really, you can't make those sort of changes when you hate yourself and your body because you end up sabotaging yourself.
Privately, I also think that most of our body image concepts are media generated, and the scripts are written by a lot of people who make a lot of money from people who are trying to achieve the impossibility of the "perfect body" which gets less achievable every year. The sooner people stop subscribing to that the better. Which means worrying less about whether you are "fat" and more about whether you are healthy and happy. The actual measurements don't really matter.
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