The F*ck It Diet: Eating Should Be Easy

by Caroline Dooner

Overview

“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 bestselling 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 fuck eating like that. 

In The F*ck It Diet, Caroline Dooner tackles the inherent flaws of dieting and diet culture, and offers readers 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 readers 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*ck It Diet. Let’s Eat.

 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062883612
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	03/26/2019
Pages:	304
Sales rank:	30,707
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.30(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Caroline Dooner is a writer, storyteller, performer and yoga teacher (who mostly just teaches resting), a former yo-yo dieter, and the creator of The Fuck It Diet. She studied improv at UCB and received a BFA in acting from NYU, and consequently spent her early twenties in leotards, or standing in front of casting directors who told you what kind of person you looked like.

After putting herself through over a decade of obsessive, chronic, miserable dieting and bingeing, her own deep misery and dysfunction led her to investigate, research, and create another way: The Fuck It Diet. Caroline hosts a podcast on her approach to food and teaches online courses in intuitive eating and self-acceptance. This is her first book.

Editorial Reviews

02/18/2019

Comedian Dooner presents a lively case against dieting in an impassioned debut peppered with the titular expletive. A former raw vegan and yo-yo dieter, Dooner argues that dieting actually causes weight gain; a state of restriction, she asserts, causes the body to eventually fight back against “famine” by regaining all the weight lost, and then some. (In support, she cites research, including the WWII-era Minnesota Starvation Experiment and a more recent study.) Her plan, as she explains it, is less a traditional diet with set meal portions and an exercise regimen, and more a philosophy of how to “neutralize” the power of food while also eschewing the “dysfunctional hell” of dieting. Intended to keep one in the middle of a naturally-occurring weight range, it allows, temptingly, for eating when hungry, consuming carbs and sugar when desired, satisfying cravings, and engaging in “moderate” exercise. Dooner also offers five self-care tools, including a relaxing, mandatory 10-20–minute a day “Lie-Down,” the “Breathe and Feel” (noticing physical sensations), and “The Belief Release” (in which readers let go of limiting beliefs). Readers who have churned through any number of diets before will enjoy Dooner’s unorthodox and sincerely delivered guide. Agent: Susan Raihofer, David Black Agency. (Mar.)

Publishers Weekly

Sharp, hilarious and deeply compassionate... Do yourself a favor and read this book now.

Alexis Saloutos MS

If you’re ready to get off the diet hamster wheel and start living your damn life, The F*ck It Diet is a must.

Christy Harrison

The world needs this book. There isn’t a woman I know who wouldn’t benefit from these profound truths — served with a side of humor and a whole lot of science to back them up) within these pages. If you’ve ever struggled with dieting, binging, food fixation, fear of gaining weight, or obsession with thinness, The F*ck It Diet is for you.

Simi Botic

Caroline’s voice is unique to anything on the shelves, and The F*ck It Diet will help people plagued by the chokehold of chronic dieting regain their lives.

Katie Dalebout

“The F*ck It Diet is not only hilarious, it is also scientifically and medically sound. A must read for any chronic dieter who is fed up and just ready to f*ck the whole endeavor.” 

Christiane Northrup

This surprisingly funny anti-diet guide has science-backed proof that we’ve been given the wrong information for decades—and that trusting your body, and accepting and loving it at any size, is the surest route to health and happiness.

Dia &Co

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