Summary
A clinical psychologist and eating disorder specialist busts common myths around food, nutrition, and weight loss to set you on a path towards healing and self-love.
A 10-step approach to ditching diet culture, healing your relationship with food, and cultivating compassion for your body.
Diets don't work-and it's not your fault. As a culture, we're told (and tell ourselves) that if we just lose the weight-try a little harder, have a little more willpower, or deprive ourselves for a little bit longer-we'll be happier, healthier, and more confident. But it's not true.
Clinical psychologist Alexis Conason debunks the myths we've been sold about food, nutrition, health, and weight loss, and offers an antidote to the pain and harmful health consequences that result from yo-yo diets, untenable food regimens, and quick fixes. Conason, who is also aneating disorder specialist, shows readers how radically shifting our relationship to food and our own bodies can be incredibly healing, nourishing, and can help us to better love and care for ourselves. Enriched with case studies, practical meditations, stories, lessons, and activities, her 10-step program will help you-
. Challenge your assumptions about weight and health
.Understand the ways that our emotions can impact how and why weeat
.Embrace your "yum" and tune into taste with mindful eating
.Trust your body to be your guide and find real fullness
Reframing dieting and diet "failure" as pervasive aspects of our culture-not individual failures- The Diet-Free Revolution offers a roadmap to healing, self-acceptance, and radical new ways of relating to and loving our bodies.
ALEXIS CONASON, PSY.D., CEDS-S is a clinical psychologist and eating disorder specialist in private practice in New York City. She is the author of The Diet-Free Revolution- 10 Steps to Free Yourself from the Diet Cycle with Mindful Eating and Radical Self-Acceptance (North Atlantic Books, 2021). She is the founder of The Anti-Diet Plan, a weight-inclusive online mindful eating program available worldwide. She was previously a research associate at the New York Nutrition Obesity Research Center in affiliation with Columbia University. Her research has been published in peer-reviewed journals, she is a frequent speaker at conferences, and she has been featured widely as an expert on the topics of mindful eating, body image, and diet culture in the media.
A lifelong New Yorker, Conason lives in Manhattan with her husband and two daughters. She loves all things related to food including cooking, grocery shopping, watching food shows, and of course eating! But most rewarding is helping her clients transform their relationship with food and experience the joys of eating. She is a fierce advocate for helping people recognize and question the societal norms that encourage their feeling not good enough about themselves so they can stop fixating on shrinking their bodies and reclaim the space that they deserve in the world. You can find her on social media @theantidietplan.
