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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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