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The F*ck It Diet: Eating Should Be Easy Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Caroline Dooner (Author, Narrator), HarperAudio (Publisher)
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“The F*ck It Diet is not only hilarious, it is scientifically and medically sound. A must read for any chronic dieter.” (Christiane Northrup, MD, New York Times best-selling author of Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom)

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.

Dieting doesn't work.

Not long term. In fact, our bodies are hardwired against it. But each time our diets fail, instead of considering that maybe our ridiculously low-carb diet is the problem, we wonder what’s wrong with us. Why can’t we stick to our simple plan of grapefruit and tuna fish? Why are we so hungry? What is wrong with us?

We berate ourselves for being lazy and weak, double down on our belief that losing weight is the key to our everlasting happiness, and resolve to do better tomorrow. But it’s time we called a spade a spade: Constantly trying to eat the smallest amount possible is a miserable way to live, and it isn’t even working. So f--k eating like that.

In The F*ck It Diet, Caroline Dooner tackles the inherent flaws of dieting and diet culture and offers listeners a counterintuitively simple path to healing their physical, emotional, and mental relationship with food. What’s the secret anti-diet? Eat. Whatever you want. Honor your appetite and listen to your hunger. Trust that your body knows what it is doing. Oh, and don’t forget to rest, breathe, and be kind to yourself while you’re at it.

Once you get yourself out of survival mode, it will become easier and easier to eat what your body really needs - a healthier relationship with food ultimately leads to a healthier you.

An ex-yo-yo dieter herself, Dooner knows how terrifying it can be to break free of the vicious cycle, but with her signature sharp humor and compassion, she shows listeners that a sustainable, easy relationship with food is possible.

Irreverent and empowering, The F*ck It Diet is call to arms for anyone who feels guilt or pain over food, weight, or their body. It’s time to give up the shame and start thriving. Welcome to the f--k it diet. Let’s eat.

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  1. Listening Length
    7 hours and 37 minutes
  2. Author
    Caroline Dooner
  3. Narrator
    Caroline Dooner
  4. Audible release date
    March 26, 2019
  5. Language
    English
  6. Publisher
    HarperAudio
  7. ASIN
    B07N94YSKV
  8. Version
    Unabridged
  9. Program Type
    Audiobook
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Listening Length 7 hours and 37 minutes
Author Caroline Dooner
Narrator Caroline Dooner
Whispersync for Voice Ready
Audible.com Release Date March 26, 2019
Publisher HarperAudio
Program Type Audiobook
Version Unabridged
Language English
ASIN B07N94YSKV
Best Sellers Rank #5,615 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals)
#4 in Eating Disorders (Audible Books & Originals)
#9 in Self-Help for Eating Disorders & Body Image Issues (Books)
#12 in Feminist Theory (Books)

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Scientific, hilarious and necessary
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Scientific, hilarious and necessary
This book is necessary. For those that are worried about it being simply a confirmation bias, it isn't. Everyone will be somewhat uncomfortable at least once while reading this. Whether it's how angry you are at diet culture, sadness about the rules and lies that you were fed as a kid or teen, or remembering how miserable you felt when failing at yet another diet.Caroline sites 70 scientific journal articles in this book. So I dont understand how some reviewers said "it wasn't based on science". Caroline repeatedly reminds the reader that she isn't a doctor or dietitian. I have no qualms with this. Especially since diet culture is so emeshed in healthcare and the idea of health is so warped today.I'm half what though TFID book and so much of my perspective on life has changed for the better. For the past 3-4 weeks I've eaten All The Things. No rules. Lots of self care, lots of rest. The first 10 days I was physically uncomfortable. 3 weeks in and don't get me wrong-- I've got a long ways to go emotionally, but food is EASY. Eating is FUN! I eat what I crave. That so far has included some of the following: pop tarts, cheetos, ice cream, pizza, pistachios, apples (how do apples taste so incredible now?!?), green crispy salads, lots of water with lemon, and broccoli. And donuts of course (DELICIOUS DONUTS). I am unbothered by ALL OF IT! The stress I was holding about my rocky 30+ year relationship with food is gone. This is just the beginning, but I already feel like I have so much brain energy left for the things that really matter in life. Freaking out about food ain't one of them.The stakes are low. The stakes are low. The stakes are low. Eat the food. Your body is smarter than you are, and more clever than you are. Thank you Caroline, TFID is freaking LIFE CHANGING! And also very freaking scientific.
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JM
5.0 out of 5 stars This book teaches you to respect your hunger, not eat junk food daily for the rest of your life.
Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2021
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Some of the previous reviews lamented the author telling you to eat what you want when you want it. I think they missed the point. The author is not a medical professional, she’s not a dietitian or a nutritionist. She is a woman who struggled with eating food, restricting food and binging. She is a comedian and a writer so this is the story of an epiphany she had, the research she did and how she solved her problem. She states that if you have a serious eating disorder or medical issue, you need to seek professional help. This book is for those of us who diet, lose weight and gain it back. She discusses why diets don’t work, a remarkable study done on famine and our bodies and how the diet industry does not care about us because they are in the business of making money. Think about how many times you’ve rejoined a certain weight loss plan that starts with the letter between v and x. She describes how her solution is not the same as intuitive eating. I felt she hit the nail on the head and I know that for me, what she wrote resonates with my life experiences. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. This book helps readers get off the roller coaster. She basically states that when you are physically hungry, eat what you want and if after that you are still hungry, eat some more. With intuitive eating, you are supposed to practice mindful eating, slow down and think about your meal. Well let’s be honest, one of the most horrifying parts of dieting is that you are thinking about food 24/7. It’s like you can’t think about anything else. You are planning your food intake every freaking second of your waking hours and dreaming of eating when you are asleep. She gives you permission to change that and yes, it’s possible and likely that you will gain some weight before losing some weight and guess what, you may not lose as much as you want because our bodies are hard wired to have a weight within a certain number of pounds. Her process is not a nice little quick eating plan to drop 2 pounds a week. But in the end, you do stop eating too much and you have a much saner and happier life at a healthy weight where your body belongs at. She has skillfully explained why our bodies are not hard wired to restrict food and she has the science to prove it. I am just starting to implement her suggestions knowing the scale will likely go up before it goes down. To alleviate the desire to check my weight twelve times a day, I threw out my scale. It was refreshing. There is so much more to this book so my advice is that if you are tired of trying every diet or program out there because you never feel in control of your eating and if you want to get off the crazy food merry go round, give this a chance for six months. We’ve all spent way more money on books and programs than the cost of this book. That’s my plan and I’ll post an update to let y’all know how thing are going. I feel hopeful for the first time in many years. Good luck!,
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Malyssa033103
5.0 out of 5 stars Well worded and Impactful
Reviewed in the United States on July 2, 2023
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The author really has a way of wording her insights and findings in a way that is impactful, strong, all white being super easy to understand and follow along with. The book is nowhere near mundane or boring. Right from the beginning I wanted to keep reading on because she brings in new perspective regarding eating disorders that I had never been introduced to before. She proves her points with scientific based research which makes it all the more compelling. I’ve struggled with disordered eating for about 2 years now and she offers very concise, clear, and effective methods to approach anyone who’s struggled ranging from years and years to maybe just have started. Disordered eating can be overwhelming and confusing and I know something I have always told myself that has held me back from getting better is that it’s not even a real issue. But it is. It’s a habitual way of living that starts to manifest and affect every aspect of your life. I felt heard and understood and could relate to many of the things she discussed which helped me feel not alone. For the longest time I’ve felt like I was a complete weirdo for not just being able to eat normally. If there is one takeaway I could share from this book it would be that the best thing to do for yourself and the people around you is to give yourself grace. Be patient. Highly recommend for anyone who doesn’t quite know where to start in helping themselves or if you feel overwhelmed in general.
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Alice
5.0 out of 5 stars Let's hope amazon won't delete this review
Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2019
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Let me start this review by saying that I started my journey of leaving my tumultuous past with diets in December last year when I discovered the book of Intuitive Eating which the author is not particularly fond of to what I could gather from this book haha however let me just tell you if that book changed my life, this one finished giving me the tools I needed.

I feel like Intuitive Eating is like the cute grandma that is super sweet to you and tries to bring you to the bring you to the light with being soft spoken and warm, whereas the F*ck it Diet is your best friend that is brutally honest and will slap you in the face in the bar when you're drunk and you don't want to go home, but she will take the Uber with you and hold your hair while you puke and rub your back and be sweet to you too.

You have to read this book with an open mind, which I think for me was easy cause I started with intuitive eating and I had already hit rock bottom with diets a few months ago so I literally didn't have anything to lose. This book will teach you why dieting is so incredibly stupid, it will make you feel uplifted, it will lift the guilt off your shoulders if you have always blamed yourself for not being freaking tiny... but it might also make you cry... make you feel all of the freaking feels and BELIEVE me when I tell you that's what you need.

I did have a bit of a hard time at first opening up to everything this book had to teach me, I've read it once and I'm planning on reading it again and doing all of the exercises since I didn't go as deep on all of them cause I was a bit afraid at first.

So let me tell you, this book is priceless just read it with an open mind and just take into account that YOU decide in the end what is the best for YOU I don't believe there is a cookie cutter way to fix everyone's problems with food.

I learned a lot of from intuitive eating and from this book and I will make my own rules with the best of both worlds and everything else I can learn about this subject from all the sources provides to me from these books... and that's what you can do too.

There's no right or wrong way to get out of the vicious cycle of dieting but there's millions of people like you trying to figure stuff out. You are not alone and you are going to be A-OK :)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Revelador
Reviewed in Mexico on March 2, 2023
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Me ayudó mucho en mi proceso de sanación, entender mejor mi relación con mi cuerpo, y la comida. Una herramienta muy útil para acompañarme en el futuro.
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sarah-una
5.0 out of 5 stars Great read and even better tool to living your life from a more liveable place
Reviewed in Spain on February 18, 2021
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The book inspires and informs us how to use our own mind, body and intuition to radically improve the way we feel about our whole way of life. I’ll definitely be reading it over again. It’s a bible
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Melissa de Sá
5.0 out of 5 stars Se liberte da comida!
Reviewed in Brazil on January 18, 2020
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Esse livro discute, de forma bastante espirituosa, o contrasenso que é a cultura da dieta nos EUA (e no resto do mundo que o segue). Caroline Dooner conta de seus dias de distúrbio alimentar, como se libertou da ortorexia e como os tentáculos perniciosos da cultura da dieta se infiltram em todos os lugares. Mesmo aqueles que dizem pregar apenas a saúde...

Gostei especialmente de como o livro é dividido entre uma parte mais de pesquisa sobre a cultura da dieta e depois em partes de como superar tudo isso mental e emocionalmente. Existem vários exercícios ao longo do livro que realmente dão insights maravilhosos sobre como todos nós estamos enfiados até a cabeça numa cultura doente.
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Tabs
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing book!
Reviewed in Canada on April 2, 2019
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I have read essentially every book on anti diets and intuitive eating on the market. This book is by far the best.

My only issue is I wish more anti diet books were written by fat or very fat people. The author was an acceptable size before and after gaining weight. Going against diet culture is hard but it becomes so much harder the fatter and less socially acceptable your body is.

Aside from that, there is no horrible redundant hunger scale. No eating super slowly. No eating only in peace and quiet and thinking about your food.

This is the first book on this subject that I have read that tells you it's okay to eat and eat a lot. That you can eat fast or distracted. There is NO hunger scale. She makes eating as intuitive as it can be. The science quoted with in is sound and the over all writing style is easy and enjoyable to read. There are writing prompts and exercises to do but they actually make total sense and I feel shouldn't be skipped.

I highly HIGHLY recommend this book to everyone. I also suggest to anyone to ready this one before any others if you are just starting out on your anti diet journey!
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Josephine Nordland
5.0 out of 5 stars Are you feeling crazy around food? This book will help
Reviewed in Germany on February 12, 2020
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Loved the book. It's not as funny as I had imagined, but instead it was so unbelievable helpful. I tried Intuitive Eating back in 2016 and made a Hunger-and-Fullness-diet out of it. Then in 2019 I started again. I started reading this book when I had made peace with food except for Kinder Happy Hippo Biscuits - a chocolate waffer with the most delicious hazelnut-milk cream filling. I was bingeing on them every time I had them in the house. And just a few chapters in the book I already felt how I got more relaxed around them. The journal exercises are amazing and very helpful. Do NOT skip them. ;) I can see now how the book Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole can be taken the wrong way (as I did first) and I like Caroline's approach better. First you just need to give yourself permission to eat, an I mean full permission! And you have to fight every judgement around it. And first after that, all other topics like listening to your hunger cues, satiation, movement, gentle nutrition can come into place. I haven't craved any kind of fruits or veggies in the past two months and now that I am sick I just want to eat apples, snack on mini carrots, drink smoothies and eat mango sorbet. Always remember: Your body knows best!
I'm so thankful for this book and I will definitely reread it very soon and dive deeper into the journaling exercises and the resting periods.
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