Weeks after reading the book, and just a few weeks before I went off to college, my mom told me she had cancer, and we both became raw vegan to try and heal all of our earthly ills (it didn’t work) (my mom is fine, but not because of raw veganism, she ditched it soon after starting chemo) (also, I have complex feelings about pharmaceutical companies too, but raw veganism was still not the answer).(Yes I was a raw vegan in freshman year of college.) You'll be doing a deeper dive on releasing diet culture beliefs, and get to access 4+ hours worth of Q&A replay calls every week.

This is the fascinating thing about our relationship with food. The more rules we have, and the more we diet, the hungrier we are and the more fixated on food we become. It’s hormonal, and it’s actually a primitive survival response. So people who diet believe they are completely out-of-control food addicts, because that is actually what the body forces you to become when you spend your life going from diet to diet. It becomes this self-fulfilling prophecy. So, in the beginning of stepping away from diets, people actually do crave all of the dense, “forbidden” foods that they’ve denied themselves, and it’s totally normal and okay. And the irony is, it’s actually a healing phase to crave dense forbidden foods in high quantities. What would your body want to do after years of being semi-starved? It would probably eat as many cakes as it could for a little while. 5. As you mention in the book, dieting makes up a multi-billion dollar industry. How can people (and women especially) help themselves avoid being tempted to spend on things like dieting programs/supplements?

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A month ago I was in tears saying to my therapist, “I’m so tired. I’m tired of pretending I’m getting by. I’m tired of pretending I’m not hurting. I’m tired.” So when I saw the cover of this book on my library app, I thought it was just the book I needed. Naturally I requested it without actually reading what the book was about. I’d read the Intuitive Eating book a few years before this and learned about how dieting wires you to feel out of control with food, but when I’d tried it, it didn’t “work” for me. I still felt out of control around food. But what this new realization had made me realized, is that all the time I thought I as intuitive eating, I was not. I was subconsciously micromanaging everything. I was still trying to eat the smallest amount possible, and I was still trying to be as thin as possible. And I wondered… is that why I still feel out of control with food? Because I never actually stopped dieting?

Except…this is about a 20-something who has very dramatic medical crises about every other year of her life. She gets plastic surgery in high school because she convinces her parents a new nose will make her happy. She also wants to be an actor. She lives in New York in an apartment her parents pay for. She studies abroad. Being an actor is overwhelming. More medical crises. Her “liver hurts” when she has a sip of alcohol. She tries to be a receptionist for a short while but then that’s exhausting and she declares…a two year rest. I wish I was kidding.From comedian and ex-diet junkie Caroline Dooner, an inspirational guide that will help you stop dieting, reboot your relationship with food, and regain your personal power