Harding and Kirby, both self-proclaimed fat girls, have founded the ultimate fat girl’s bible, with lessons of positive body image, healthy living, and most importantly loving yourself and being healthy in your current body and at your current weight. – Linda Vongkhamchanh, iVillage’s Never Say Diet
Lessons from the Fat-o-Sphere: Quit Dieting and Declare a Truce with Your Body (U.S. edition)
Screw Inner Beauty: Trash the Diet and Self-Loathing and Get on with Your Life (Australian edition)
Publicly, Shamelessly, Unshakeably Fat and Happy
The bad news: there probably isn’t a thin person inside you waiting to get out. But there just might be a happy, confident, awesome fat person in there – and this book will help you find her.
Bloggers Kate Harding and Marianne Kirby have lost count of how many diets they’ve been on. Between them, they’ve lost enough weight to make up a whole other person – a whole other fat person. But like almost all dieters, they always gained it back – so they finally decided it was time to activate Plan B. In Lessons from the Fat-o-Sphere/Screw Inner Beauty, they share how they came to quit starving themselves and like their fat bodies the way they are.
Marianne and Kate know that ‘fat’ doesn’t equal disgusting. Or lazy. Or undisciplined. Or stupid. Instead, it’s just the single most efficient description of bodies that aren’t, well, thin. So it’s time to reclaim both the word and the reality – to give up on what they call ‘The Fantasy of Being Thin’, and trade it in for ‘The Realistic Prospect of Being Happy with Who You Are’.
Kate Harding is the co-author of Lessons from the Fat-o-Sphere: Quit Dieting and Declare a Truce with Your Body, founder of the internet's most popular body acceptance blog, 