CAROLINE DOONER is a writer, storyteller, performer, and yoga teacher (who mostly just teaches resting), a former yo-yo dieter, and the creator of The Fuck It Diet. She studied improv at UCB and received a BFA in acting from NYU, and consequently spent her early twenties in leotards, or standing in front of casting directors who told you what kind of person you looked like.
After putting herself through over a decade of obsessive, chronic, miserable dieting and bingeing, her own deep misery and dysfunction led her to investigate, research, and create another way: The Fuck It Diet. Caroline hosts a podcast on her approach to food and teaches online courses in intuitive eating and self-acceptance. This is her first book.
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Ebook Edition © February 2019 ISBN: 9780008339845
CLIENT TESTIMONIALS FOR THE F*CK IT DIET
‘Doing the work of The F*ck It Diet brought me to a place where I am actually intuitive and automatic with food . . . with every other plan I tried, I was faking it.’
‘The F*ck It Diet is the Riddikulus Charm for Dieting and Diet Culture.’
‘I just ate half a donut and then threw the rest of it away because I didn’t want it. WHAT?!!’
‘I struggled with “gut issues” for years, tried elimination diets and was on 4 medications to control my symptoms. Now I am in remission. Know how I did it? The F*ck It Diet. EATING FOOD.
More food, enough food, every day. Amazing, huh?’
‘Caroline and her program gave me the permission I needed to just eat, enjoy, and move on. The permission to live.’
‘I can eat without guilt (but I’m no longer bingeing – what?!?) and I am accepting my body more every day – which is new to this 53 year old who has hated my body since I was a teen.
It has truly been a transformation.’
‘This is the only book that has viscerally lessened the shame I have felt around food.’
‘I wasn’t expecting this course to improve my own clinical skills so much to help clients. I came into this program for me, but what I am learning is making me a better therapist too.’
I DEDICATE THIS BOOK TO CHEESE—
I WILL NEVER FORSAKE YOU AGAIN.
CONTENTS
Introduction: This Is Not a Diet Book
ONE: WHY ARE WE SO ADDICTED TO FOOD?
The Minnesota Starvation Experiment
Guess Which Industry Makes $60 Billion a Year?
TWO: HOW THE HELL DO I ACTUALLY DO THIS?