The F*ck It Diet: Eating Should Be Easy
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“The F*ck It Diet is not only hilarious, it is scientifically and medically sound. A must read for any chronic dieter.” (Christiane Northrup, MD, New York Times best-selling author of Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom)
From comedian and ex-diet junkie Caroline Dooner, an inspirational guide that will help you stop dieting, reboot your relationship with food, and regain your personal power.
Dieting doesn't work.
Not long term. In fact, our bodies are hardwired against it. But each time our diets fail, instead of considering that maybe our ridiculously low-carb diet is the problem, we wonder what’s wrong with us. Why can’t we stick to our simple plan of grapefruit and tuna fish? Why are we so hungry? What is wrong with us?
We berate ourselves for being lazy and weak, double down on our belief that losing weight is the key to our everlasting happiness, and resolve to do better tomorrow. But it’s time we called a spade a spade: Constantly trying to eat the smallest amount possible is a miserable way to live, and it isn’t even working. So f–k eating like that.
In The F*ck It Diet, Caroline Dooner tackles the inherent flaws of dieting and diet culture and offers listeners a counterintuitively simple path to healing their physical, emotional, and mental relationship with food. What’s the secret anti-diet? Eat. Whatever you want. Honor your appetite and listen to your hunger. Trust that your body knows what it is doing. Oh, and don’t forget to rest, breathe, and be kind to yourself while you’re at it.
Once you get yourself out of survival mode, it will become easier and easier to eat what your body really needs – a healthier relationship with food ultimately leads to a healthier you.
An ex-yo-yo dieter herself, Dooner knows how terrifying it can be to break free of the vicious cycle, but with her signature sharp humor and compassion, she shows listeners that a sustainable, easy relationship with food is possible.
Irreverent and empowering, The F*ck It Diet is call to arms for anyone who feels guilt or pain over food, weight, or their body. It’s time to give up the shame and start thriving. Welcome to the f–k it diet. Let’s eat.
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Customers find this book life-changing and well-researched, with a conversational writing style that makes it a genuinely fun read. The book helps readers change their relationship with food and develop a healthy relationship with their body, while being humorous and straightforward. Customers appreciate its authenticity and empathetic approach, finding it truly freeing as it helps release guilt around food.
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JM –
This book teaches you to respect your hunger, not eat junk food daily for the rest of your life.
Some of the previous reviews lamented the author telling you to eat what you want when you want it. I think they missed the point. The author is not a medical professional, she’s not a dietitian or a nutritionist. She is a woman who struggled with eating food, restricting food and binging. She is a comedian and a writer so this is the story of an epiphany she had, the research she did and how she solved her problem. She states that if you have a serious eating disorder or medical issue, you need to seek professional help. This book is for those of us who diet, lose weight and gain it back. She discusses why diets don’t work, a remarkable study done on famine and our bodies and how the diet industry does not care about us because they are in the business of making money. Think about how many times you’ve rejoined a certain weight loss plan that starts with the letter between v and x. She describes how her solution is not the same as intuitive eating. I felt she hit the nail on the head and I know that for me, what she wrote resonates with my life experiences. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. This book helps readers get off the roller coaster. She basically states that when you are physically hungry, eat what you want and if after that you are still hungry, eat some more. With intuitive eating, you are supposed to practice mindful eating, slow down and think about your meal. Well let’s be honest, one of the most horrifying parts of dieting is that you are thinking about food 24/7. It’s like you can’t think about anything else. You are planning your food intake every freaking second of your waking hours and dreaming of eating when you are asleep. She gives you permission to change that and yes, it’s possible and likely that you will gain some weight before losing some weight and guess what, you may not lose as much as you want because our bodies are hard wired to have a weight within a certain number of pounds. Her process is not a nice little quick eating plan to drop 2 pounds a week. But in the end, you do stop eating too much and you have a much saner and happier life at a healthy weight where your body belongs at. She has skillfully explained why our bodies are not hard wired to restrict food and she has the science to prove it. I am just starting to implement her suggestions knowing the scale will likely go up before it goes down. To alleviate the desire to check my weight twelve times a day, I threw out my scale. It was refreshing. There is so much more to this book so my advice is that if you are tired of trying every diet or program out there because you never feel in control of your eating and if you want to get off the crazy food merry go round, give this a chance for six months. We’ve all spent way more money on books and programs than the cost of this book. That’s my plan and I’ll post an update to let y’all know how thing are going. I feel hopeful for the first time in many years. Good luck!,
Jamie –
Such a weight off my shoulders
This book really opened my eyes to how obsessed I was with food and how much time I spend thinking about it and stressing about it. It’s no way to live. If you have been yo-yo dieting on and off, experience weight loss only to gain it all back and then some, find yourself in a cycle of self-hatred and obsession about food and being thin, this book is for you. Even the THOUGHT of going back on another diet caused me stress and affected my mood greatly. I bought this book three days ago and I already feel an incredible weight lifted off my shoulders. I know I have a lot of work ahead of me, but I can’t wait to have a healthy relationship with food and my body. Highly recommend for any chronic dieter who can’t seem to find happiness no matter what size they are.***********Update************It’s almost three years later, and I have lost 30 pounds and healed my relationship with food and exercise, thanks to the kick start I got from this book. HOWEVER, If you are looking for a weight loss book, this is not it. Despite the title containing the word “diet” in it, she does not offer any advice for weight loss, because that’s not the point of the book. In fact, she says several times that you will most likely GAIN weight during the process of “de-programming”, which definitely happened to me. It was scary, but it was worth it. Food lost its power over me and the feeling was incredible. I still ultimately decided that losing some weight was important for my health, as I had a great deal of excess belly fat that is dangerous. Did she teach me how to lose that fat? No. What she did teach me is that diets don’t just “not work,” they are toxic for your mind and body. You CAN lose weight and be healthy without dieting or feeling deprived. But it takes a totally different kind of work…one that is chronic dieters are not used to…actually listening to your body (which is a lot harder than it sounds!). I’m not telling anyone how to lose weight because it’s different for each individual. It took me a long time to figure it out and I’m still learning things about myself all the time. This book certainly isn’t for everybody, but (and I say this without an ounce of hyperbole) it has truly changed my life. It has changed the way I think about food, my body, and health. It’s still a challenge, and always will be I’m sure. But I’m confident that I’m in a much better place than I was before I read this book.
Melissa de Sá –
Esse livro discute, de forma bastante espirituosa, o contrasenso que é a cultura da dieta nos EUA (e no resto do mundo que o segue). Caroline Dooner conta de seus dias de distúrbio alimentar, como se libertou da ortorexia e como os tentáculos perniciosos da cultura da dieta se infiltram em todos os lugares. Mesmo aqueles que dizem pregar apenas a saúde…Gostei especialmente de como o livro é dividido entre uma parte mais de pesquisa sobre a cultura da dieta e depois em partes de como superar tudo isso mental e emocionalmente. Existem vários exercícios ao longo do livro que realmente dão insights maravilhosos sobre como todos nós estamos enfiados até a cabeça numa cultura doente.
Lucinda Driscoll –
This is literally the first review I have ever written on Amazon (and yeah I know everyone says that, but it’s really true!)… This book is a revelation. I want to preach it EVERYWHERE…my husband is already sick of me!I’m 44 and have had years of struggling with diets, body image and self esteem…culminating in an urgent referral to a psychiatrist to treat my binge eating disorder. I got married at Christmas (I know, woohoo!!!) but was very self conscious and unhappy with my body – damn, if only I’d had this book a few months earlier.Anyway, I have it now and LOVE IT! I am FREE. My anxiety has gone, and I wake up with a spring in my step. I love food, and enjoy every mouthful. Yeah, I’ve put on some pounds BUT it’s settled down now and I think I may be near to my ‘set point’. Body image is something I’m still working on, but my god I’m in a GREAT place.For those worried, like my husband, that you’re just going to eat and eat and eat, and end up on a documentary (!!) – WORRY NOT! I felt amazing this morning so decided to get on the scales for the last ever time – I was in a good place, and knew it wouldn’t be a trigger. It was really just out of interest… Well, I’ll be damned – I’ve lost weight. So all those doubts are now finally pushed aside. This does work. I didn’t care if I had lost or not, but to know that my body ‘has it sorted’ was fascinating. (Scales are now in the bin by the way!)So…..there you have it! I have 3 tween girls at home and the ‘lectures’ have now begun! I am determined to save them so much pain and ensure they love themselves.Last words – BUY IT, BUY IT, BUY IT!…..oh, and THANK YOU Caroline :)xxxxxxxxx
Tabs –
I have read essentially every book on anti diets and intuitive eating on the market. This book is by far the best.My only issue is I wish more anti diet books were written by fat or very fat people. The author was an acceptable size before and after gaining weight. Going against diet culture is hard but it becomes so much harder the fatter and less socially acceptable your body is.Aside from that, there is no horrible redundant hunger scale. No eating super slowly. No eating only in peace and quiet and thinking about your food.This is the first book on this subject that I have read that tells you it’s okay to eat and eat a lot. That you can eat fast or distracted. There is NO hunger scale. She makes eating as intuitive as it can be. The science quoted with in is sound and the over all writing style is easy and enjoyable to read. There are writing prompts and exercises to do but they actually make total sense and I feel shouldn’t be skipped.I highly HIGHLY recommend this book to everyone. I also suggest to anyone to ready this one before any others if you are just starting out on your anti diet journey!
Josephine Nordland –
Loved the book. It’s not as funny as I had imagined, but instead it was so unbelievable helpful. I tried Intuitive Eating back in 2016 and made a Hunger-and-Fullness-diet out of it. Then in 2019 I started again. I started reading this book when I had made peace with food except for Kinder Happy Hippo Biscuits – a chocolate waffer with the most delicious hazelnut-milk cream filling. I was bingeing on them every time I had them in the house. And just a few chapters in the book I already felt how I got more relaxed around them. The journal exercises are amazing and very helpful. Do NOT skip them. 😉 I can see now how the book Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole can be taken the wrong way (as I did first) and I like Caroline’s approach better. First you just need to give yourself permission to eat, an I mean full permission! And you have to fight every judgement around it. And first after that, all other topics like listening to your hunger cues, satiation, movement, gentle nutrition can come into place. I haven’t craved any kind of fruits or veggies in the past two months and now that I am sick I just want to eat apples, snack on mini carrots, drink smoothies and eat mango sorbet. Always remember: Your body knows best!I’m so thankful for this book and I will definitely reread it very soon and dive deeper into the journaling exercises and the resting periods.
Meg –
I get it! A logical message regarding hang-ups about food and realistic exercises regarding changing our thought processes about dieting and body image.