Diet culture already makes life hard to enjoy. Our April book club pick by iamchrissyking offers a gentler way forward.
spent years of her life yo-yo dieting. She’d try one fad diet or exercise trend to lose weight, find it unsustainable, leave it behind, and eventually start a new restrictive habit. She repeated this cycle over and over again, justifying it all in the name of being healthy. “But the truth was,” she writes in her new book, “all I really wanted was to shrink my body at whatever cost necessary.”
Sound familiar? King’s story is a classic example of how anti-fatness and diet culture infiltrates so many people’s lives, leading us to believe that we can manipulate our bodies to “perfection” when all this fruitless pursuit does is leave us trapped. In her new book,King proposes an alternative way of living: Burn it all down and you can be free. We’re extremely on board with that—and we’re thrilled to announceBe forewarned: This isn’t your run-of-the-mill body positivity book.
'The Body Liberation Project: How Understanding Racism and Diet Culture Helps Cultivate Joy and Build Collective Freedom' by Chrissy King
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