![]() ![]() ![]() Check out our recommended reading list below for a bunch of SELF articles on fatness, size, and weight.Read an exclusive excerpt from You Just Need to Lose Weight here.(Its official release day is January 10, but you can preorder it now!) ![]() ![]() What if we spent January not just not hating our bodies (and, in the process, discriminating against other people’s bodies, too), but actively unlearning those core beliefs about fatness and fighting them at their root? This month, we’ll do exactly that together. The message of this book is perennially important, but we hope that now, at a time of year when diet culture, fat bias, and a lack of self-compassion tend to trickle through our mental floodgates, it will act as a form of resistance to the very systems that created these cultural norms in the first place. It’s just a matter of ‘calories in, calories out,’” and “Obesity is the leading cause of death in the United States.” Gordon goes on to debunk each one with historical references facts and data and sharp, stinging commentary. You Just Need to Lose Weight is divided into four parts, each of which encapsulates a common refrain about fatness: “Being Fat Is a Choice,” “But What About Your Health?,” “Fat Acceptance Glorifies Obesity,” and “Fat People Should….” Those sections are broken up further into chapters, all myths you’ve probably heard before, like “Any fat person can become thin if they try hard enough. ![]()
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