Mini Review: Anti-Diet
A review of Christy Harrison’s guide to breaking free from diet culture
Format Read: Print
Rating: 4 Stars
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Welcome back to Your Book Friend! It’s time for another nonfiction mini-review. As the title suggests, this post will contain some chat about diet culture behaviors and food, so if that may be an issue for you, you may want to skip this one.
The full title of this book is long and full of promises — Anti-Diet: Reclaim your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating. Does it deliver on those promises? Eh.
Let’s start with the good things, because there are plenty. Anti-Diet is chock full of great information about why diets don’t work, how dieting and anti-fatness became so rooted in our culture, and why it’s important to break free of those deeply engrained lies that hurt our health. I’ve been reading and listening to podcasts about this topic for a couple of years now, and I felt like this book offered a lot of valuable, comprehensive information.
But does it teach you how to reclaim your time, money, well-being and happiness through intuitive eating? That’s where I struggled with this book. Yes, that’s right…
