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YOU ARE NOT BEFORE PICTURE EB
About this book
An urgent, enlightening and empowering guide to disavowing diet culture and learning to make peace with our bodies, from body confidence and anti-diet advocate, Alex Light.
When we look in the mirror, so many of us see a 'before' picture: the miserable person in the side-by-side shot waiting for the 'glow-up' (read: weight loss) that will bring true happiness. But it's not our fault that we see our bodies as projects in need of constant work: this is just one of the beliefs that has been ingrained in us by diet culture. We have been taught to view ourselves as a collection of 'problem' areas for which the billion-dollar diet industry holds the solutions.
Step-by-step, You Are Not A Before Picture provides a framework for changing the way we view ourselves and the world around us. Working with experts in the fields of psychotherapy, fitness and nutrition, Alex empowers readers to interrogate their underlying beliefs, challenge the external and internal forces that are holding us back, and finally find freedom in our bodies, for good.
Alex Light was a number 4 Sunday Times Non Fiction bestseller in the w/e June 19th 2022
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Copyright
- Note to Readers
- Title Page
- About the Author
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Dismantling diet culture: a history of diets
- Chapter 2: The ugly truth: diets don’t work
- Chapter 3: The media have a lot to answer for
- Chapter 4: Weight ≠health
- Chapter 5: ‘Fat’ is not a bad word
- Chapter 6: Beauty is only a trend
- Chapter 7: How you look is the least interesting thing about you
- Chapter 8: Comparison always leads to self-criticism
- Chapter 9: How we *should* be eating
- Chapter 10: It’s OK to gain weight
- Chapter 11: Fitness does not equate to thinness
- Chapter 12: Deconditioning is powerful
- Chapter 13: The windy road forward: where to go from here
- Further reading
- Notes on the text
- List of searchable terms
- Acknowledgements
- About the Publisher