The F*ck It Diet. Caroline Dooner
Our Fear of Hunger
The Diet Pendulum Swing
Eat When You’re Hungry
The Trap of Mindful Eating
Why Are We Eating the Smallest Amount Possible!?
There Is No Perfect Stopping Point
The Trap of Seeking Balance
Our Goal Is to Neutralize Food
Will I Be Eating This Much Forever?
No Food Is Off Limits
Your Cravings Are Your Friend
In Defense of Carbs and Sugar
In Defense of Delicious and Decadent Food
In Defense of Salt
In Defense of “Shitty” Food
Shitty Diet Food
Purity Doesn’t Exist
You Don’t Need to Go on a Green Juice Cleanse
So Many, Many Diet Rules
But What About My Health?
“But I’m a Binger!?”
What to Actually Do During a Binge
Doesn’t The Fuck It Diet Cause Obesity???
“But Really, What If I Have Health Problems?”
Tool #2: Lie Down
The Noble Art of Rest
What About Exercise?
How Will You Know This Is Working?
Your Body Is Freaking SMART
Emotional Eating Versus Bingeing
The Emotions We Avoid
We Have Sooooo Many Emotions About Our Weight
Humans Use LOTS of Things to Numb
Fear of Pain
You Can’t Avoid Being Human (Sorry)
We’re All Stuck in Fight-or-Flight Mode
Tool #3: Breathe and Feel
The Myth of Stress and Breathing
Think You Can Hate Yourself into Improvement?
Who Can We Blame????
Surrender to the Messiness
Untangling the Knot
Tool #4: The Brain Dump
The Power of Our Beliefs
Your Beliefs Become Confirmation Bias
Mental Restriction and Bingeing
We All Have Our Reasons
What We Think Being Skinny Will Give Us
Losing Your Identity
Why We Panic
The Avoidable Kind of Pain
Stop Shoulding All Over the Place
You Can Release Your Limiting Beliefs
Tool #5: The Belief Release
Nothing Is a Cure-All
It Was Never Your Fault
Diet Culture Trauma
The Luck of the Thin
Fat Phobia
You Are Making the Stakes Too Damn High
How to Trust When You Don’t Trust
Let It Feel Crazy
Waiting to Not Be Hungry
It’s Allowed to Be Messy
What Do You Stand For?
Practical Boundaries with Food and Weight
Frivolous Downtime
Emotional and Existential Rest
Become Your Own Damn Guru
That’s It!
This book is meant for chronic dieters. I am not a medical professional, and if you are engaging in any extreme restrictive eating or self-harm, you must seek professional medical help. This book cannot stand in for eating disorder treatment and is not meant to treat any physical or mental conditions.
I will share the work of many doctors, nutritionists, and weight and metabolism scientists to help assure you that I am not a lone, crazy brownie eater, out to ruin your health and happiness . . . but, again, I’m not a doctor. This book isn’t medical advice. Okay. You get it. Moving on.
INTRODUCTION: THIS IS NOT A DIET BOOK
If you’ve read as many diet books as I have, maybe you’ve noticed how similar the introductions are. It’s normally a sensationalized promise that this is the diet you’ve been waiting for. And it goes a little something like this:
INTRODUCTION TO THE DIET YOU’VE BEEN WAITING FOR
You’ve been going from diet to diet, and nothing has worked, you’re still worthless and ugly fat and unhealthy. But now with this groundbreaking and ancient way of eating, you finally have a proven, scientific, and simple plan to unlock all of your dreams of being beautiful and loved fit and healthy.
The best part is this: if you follow the plan exactly the way we have laid it out in this book, you will never crave food ever again! Ever! No more food cravings.
Take it from me, craving food should not have to be a part of your life.
Well, with our program, your body will begin to work so well that you’ll never think about food again.
This isn’t a diet, it’s a way of life.