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About the Book

Shut Up, Skinny Bitches! encourages readers to appreciate the size they are – any size they are – and guides career dieters and others struggling with food and body image issues down a brand new path that is soulfully delicious.

This book offers a fresh, revolutionary, and common sense approach to the relationship people have with food and their bodies. It debunks dieting myths found in modern culture, exposes the little-known facts of dieting, eating disorders and body image disorders, and takes a stand for anyone who has repeatedly restricted food consumption and been teased about their size or weight.

In a bold, compassionate, researched read, sprinkled with candid testimonials from dieters and others who have experienced eating disorders, the authors reveal how listening to natural hunger and fullness cues, eating cherished foods, and honoring oneself can be the best nutrition of all. The only diet recommended: An Inner Critic Fast.

Diets don’t work. Yet, millions of people struggle with dieting every year – some, their entire lives. Worse, they’re pressured to look a certain way and be a certain size. “Skinny”, they’re told, is “in”. And, only when they’re skinny, will they fit in, be accepted, loved and have all of their dreams come true.

Shut up to that. Skinny is not the cure. Thin is not in.

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Coming Events

 

OCTOBER 26, 2012! Dr. Maria will be giving a talk at ANAD's 2012 Annual Midwest Eating Disorders Conference titled, "Who is the Biggest Loser? Weight Bias in American Culture" which will discuss identifying subtle weight bias and misinformation prevalent in American culture. You'll learn research-based information about weight and health that contradicts weight bias and coping skills to fight weight bias and preserve self-esteem. Click here for more information.

JANUARY, 2013! Dr. Maria will be releasing her second book, 100 Days to Better Body Image: What You Can't Do in One Day, You Can Do in One Hundred. Please check back for more updates on the book and book tour.