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Although well presented and interesting, I quickly read through this section-I'd come across it all before, in bits and pieces over 60 years. The bulk of the book traces our food attitudes through history and the rise of the diet culture and its human cost. Studies show that diets don't work, people gain the weight back, and in fact, diets seem to cause, not alleviate, health issues. Harrison pushes back against the Diet Culture-the paradigm we have been sold that tells us there are good and bad foods, that weight is a moral and life-threatening issue, and if we don't look like some media ideal we are unloveable, ignorant, lazy, and dispensible. Her personal journey led to exactly what millions of us have experienced: Diets. She was a life-long dieter and a journalist who wrote for Gourmet Magazine. So I saw this book, Anti-Diet, and thought, I need to know more about this.

WHAT? I am 67 years old and a doctor told me what-that endless dieting and exercise is not supposed to be the goal of life? There are more important things, like the quality of life.' Instead, she told me, 'I'm not concerned about weight. She is the first doctor to NOT tell me I was risking my life and to 'Join a gym,' or 'Have you considered bariatric surgery?' or even, 'I know it's hard to lose weight but keep trying.' I told the doctor about my weight loss struggle. She saw me bend to tie my shoe and asked, 'Can you DO that? It's not vertigo, it's your blood pressure.' So she reduced my blood pressure meds. My bad knee can take the stairs better than they have in years.īut I had vertigo. I am gaining strength and balance with the fitness plan. The counselor said I was starving myself and told me to eat 6 meals a day. I joined Silver and Fit and went to the fitness center to use machines for muscle tone and balance. I lost thirty-four pounds and then plateaued even though I was burning more calories a day than I was eating. We eat red meat at most once or twice a month, but I do I love butter on my toast. A nutritionist told me to cut animal fats, meat, and dairy. I underwent extensive testing and discovered my heart is great and committed to 30 minutes of cardio a day. I had my Fitbit and my Lose It app and my scale. All I accomplished was to get bigger on fewer calories.Ī year ago, I committed to losing weight. The weight charts said I was twenty-five-pound overweight! Looking back, I realize I had an eating problem and I was at a healthy weight. I was twenty-one and eating 1000 calories a day and couldn't lose more weight. I lost thirty pounds, gained it back tried Weight Watchers, lost nothing gained more weight at college got married and went on a diet and lost thirty pounds again. A friend gave me an exercise book with calories to count. I recall the diet involved not having fruit, and I loved fruit.Īt fourteen I was dieting again.

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As a matter of fact, what don't I know about diets? Mom put me on my first diet when I was twelve years old! I was at that growth spurt time when kids get chubby and then, seemingly overnight, reach their full height and become teenagers.

I don't usually review books about health, diet, and fitness.