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A review by emmalthompson85
Lessons from the Fat-O-Sphere: Quit Dieting and Declare a Truce with Your Body by Kate Harding, Marianne Kirby
4.0
Lessons from the Fat-o-sphere is a book by two of the main voices in the fat acceptance blog movement. It touches on health at any size and talks about how to live, love and accept yourself as a fat person.
This book is a short read. It focuses more on anecdotes and is heavily biased towards female fat acceptance, which is both fair and not fair as women arguably bear the brunt of society's obsession with weight loss and the stigma attached to fat bodies but being a fat man is far from stigma free. There were nods made at a more balanced approach but not a lot of follow through.
This book is obviously revolutionary if you haven't come across fat acceptance before. It's based on the idea that basically diets don't work and yoyo dieting may well do you more harm than good. That instead you should focus on living you life and enjoying yourself at the size you are. They also talk about health at any size which is a movement that focuses on healthy self image, exercising for joy and intuitive eating with the aim of improved health, not reduced weight.
The book takes a very informal tone, similar to a blog. This might make it more accessable for the first time reader but I would have prefered something more formal. They also repeat points a lot. The entire book can be summed up at 'be nice to yourslef and stop worrying'.
This book is a short read. It focuses more on anecdotes and is heavily biased towards female fat acceptance, which is both fair and not fair as women arguably bear the brunt of society's obsession with weight loss and the stigma attached to fat bodies but being a fat man is far from stigma free. There were nods made at a more balanced approach but not a lot of follow through.
This book is obviously revolutionary if you haven't come across fat acceptance before. It's based on the idea that basically diets don't work and yoyo dieting may well do you more harm than good. That instead you should focus on living you life and enjoying yourself at the size you are. They also talk about health at any size which is a movement that focuses on healthy self image, exercising for joy and intuitive eating with the aim of improved health, not reduced weight.
The book takes a very informal tone, similar to a blog. This might make it more accessable for the first time reader but I would have prefered something more formal. They also repeat points a lot. The entire book can be summed up at 'be nice to yourslef and stop worrying'.