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Books That I Recommend
- Anti-Diet by Christy Harrison, MPH, RD*
- Big Girl: How I Gave Up Dieting & Got a Life by Kelsey Miller (Note: this book references behaviors and numbers that you may find triggering.)
- Body Image Remix: Embrace Your Body and Unleash the Fierce, Confident Woman Within by Summer Innanen
- Body Respect: What Conventional Health Books Get Wrong, Leave Out, and Just Plain Fail to Understand about Weight by Lindo Bacon, Ph.D. and Lucy Aphramor, Ph.D., RD*
- Brave Enough by Cheryl Strayed
- Eating in the Light of the Moon by Dr. Anita Johnston
- Fat!So? Because You Don’t Have to Apologize for Your Size by Marilyn Wann
- Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings
- Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight by Lindo Bacon, PhD
- Intuitive Eating: A Revolutionary Program That Works (3rd Edition) by Evelyn Tribole, M.S., M.D. and Elyse Resch, M.S., R.D., F.A.D.A. (Trigger Warning – I only suggest reading particular sections, which I intend to talk about in a later blog post. Hold off on this one for now.)
- Landwhale: On Turning Insults into Nicknames, Why Body Image Is Hard, and How Diets Can Kiss My Ass by Jes Baker
- Life Without Ed by Jenni Schaefer
- The Body Is Not An Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor.
- The Fuck It Diet by Caroline Dooner
- The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living: A Guide to ACT by Russ Harris
Books on My List of Books to Read
(I will move these to the list of books I recommend as I read them if I love them.)
- Body Kindness: Transform Your Health from the Inside-Out — and Never Say Diet Again by Rebecca Scritchfield, RDN
- Body Positive Power: Because Life is Already Happening and You Don’t Need Flat Abs to Live It by Megan Jayne Crabbe
- Eat to Love: A Mindful Guide to Transforming Your Relationship with Food, Body, and Life by Jenna Hollenstein
- In Defense of Sugar: The Sweet Truth about the Diet Industry’s Latest Evil by Joey Lott
- Just Eat It: How Intuitive Eating Can Help You Get Your Shit Together Around Food by Laura Thomas, Ph.D.
- Love Fat: An Autobiography by Tabitha J Farrar
- Recover Your Perspective: A Guide To Understanding Your Eating Disorder and Creating Recovery Using CBT, DBT, and ACT by Janean Anderson, Ph.D., CEDS
- Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself by Kristin Neff, Ph.D.
- Shrill by Lindy West
- Sick Enough by Jennifer L. Gaudiani, MD, CEDS, FAED
- The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women by Naomi Wolf
- Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls: A Handbook for Unapologetic Living by Jes Baker
- You Have the Right to Remain Fat by Virgie Tovar
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