Table of Contents
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction: How My Life Changed with One Sentence xv
A Few Words About Research xxix
Chapter 1 Four Big Fat Lies About Weight and Health 1
When Doctors Can't See Beyond Weight (Pattie) 20
No Such Thing as a Fat Athlete (Liv) 28
Chapter 2 The Amazing! Seventeen-Day! Flat-Belly! Grain-Brain! Biggest Loser! Raw Food! Diet
How I Keep It Off-For Now (Debra) 37
In Recovery from Dieting (Mandy) 49
The End Justifies the Means (Joslyn) 55
Chapter 3 Good Food, Bad Food
I Wore Shorts This Summer (Alyssa) 78
Learning to Live with Food (Kelsey) 85
Chapter 4 Money, Motivation, and the Medical Machine 95
The Doctor Thought I Was Lying (Terri) 109
My Doctor Wouldn't Touch Me (Kate) 118
Chapter 5 The Truth About Beauty 123
My Husband Tells Me I'm Beautiful, But… (Shannon) 129
My Mother's Worst Nightmare (Ellen) 139
Chapter 6 It's All in How You Look at It 153
The Worst Kind of Judgment (Pat) 167
I Do Not Have a Disease (Lizabeth) 174
Chapter 7 Now What? 179
Intuitive Eating (Stacey) 187
How I Started to Learn to Love My Body (Dawn) 193
Eating Well for Health (Marsha) 201
Notes 207
Selected Bibliography 231
Index 245
About the Author 274