One of my favorite books

Please forgive me…I’m new to blogging and haven’t quite figured out all the ways to insert other sites, quotes, etc…  Because I’m so new at it but still want to get this out there, I’m going to do what I would have done in the days before blogging.  Here goes:

I have read some really fantastic books in the past five years but I read a wonderful book this month and I want to share some of it with you. 

If you haven’t read FAT!SO?:  Because you don’t have to apologize for your size by Marilyn Wann, you have missed out on a book full of facts, affirmations and stories of self and size acceptance.  I have picked an excerpt from the book in Anatomy Lesson #2, The Belly.  See if you can relate to anything she writes here:

How to tell when you’re on a diet

*If you weigh yourself as often as you brush your teeth, you’re on a diet

*If you plan your social life around what you can or cannot eat, you’re on a diet

*If you’re comforted by the thought that you can eat all the mushrooms you want, you’re on a diet

*If you’ve ever referred to a packet of gritty powder dissolved in water as a “shake”, you’re on a diet

*If you’ve ever referred to a gritty drink in a can as a meal, you’re on a diet

*If you’ve ever said, “This isn’t a diet, it’s a lifestyle change!” you’re on a diet

*If you’re trying to lose weight, then you’re on a diet

*If you’ve ever gained back more weight than you lost, you were on a diet

*If you’ve ever said, “This time I’ll keep the weight off,” you’re about to do it again

*If you have to count anything you put in your mouth, you’re on a diet

*If you count the number of times you chew your food, you’re on a very weird diet indeed

*If you devote more space in your diary to what you eat each day than to what you did that day, you’re on a really sick diet

*If you think you can get “control” of your life by controlling what you eat, you’re on a rather silly diet.  (What you really need to reduce is your intake of pop psychology.)

*If all you talk about with coworkers over lunch is whether you’re being “good” or “bad” by eating something, then you’re on an embarrassing, adolescent kind of diet

*If you utter the words, “May I have the sauce on the side?” you might be on a diet.  (Note:  Restaurant chefs know that people actually eat more sauce when it is served on-the-side.  One ounce of sauce looks like plenty on the plate, but it takes four ounces to fill the little side dish.  Either way, diners usually eat all the sauce provided.)

*If you think of your current weight as a plateau, you’re on a diet

*If you think that eating less food makes you a better person, your diet has taken over your life.  Stop it!

So do you see yourself in any of these or can relate?  If any of these things resonate with you, consider getting this book.  It is a real eye opener and will have you rethinking all those nasty names you’ve called yourself in the past.

~sas