"You Just Need to Lose Weight"

And 19 Other Myths About Fat People

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"You Just Need to Lose Weight"

By: Aubrey Gordon

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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
AN INDIE BESTSELLER

“One of the great thinkers of our generation . . . I feel fresher and smarter and happier for sitting down with her.”—Jameela Jamil, iWeigh Podcast

The co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast and creator of Your Fat Friend equips you with the facts to debunk common anti-fat myths and with tools to take action for fat justice

The pushback that shows up in conversations about fat justice takes exceedingly predicable form. Losing weight is easy—calories in, calories out. Fat people are unhealthy. We’re in the midst of an obesity epidemic. Fat acceptance “glorifies obesity.” The BMI is an objective measure of size and health. Yet, these myths are as readily debunked as they are pervasive.

In “You Just Need to Lose Weight,” Aubrey Gordon equips readers with the facts and figures to reframe myths about fatness in order to dismantle the anti-fat bias ingrained in how we think about and treat fat people. Bringing her dozen years of community organizing and training to bear, Gordon shares the rhetorical approaches she and other organizers employ to not only counter these pernicious myths, but to dismantle the anti-fat bias that so often underpin them.

As conversations about fat acceptance and fat justice continue to grow, “You Just Need to Lose Weight” will be essential to ensure that those conversations are informed, effective, and grounded in both research and history.

Anthropology

Personal Development

Racism & Discrimination

Self-Esteem

Social Sciences

Discrimination

Mental Health

Health

Mythology

Fat Myths

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Anti-fatness is just one way society marginalises and excludes people of size. In this book Aubrey examines 18 myths about fat people and constantly challenges readers to examine their own biases.

It's a well researched book with many reflection questions and suggestions for actions we all can take to advocate for equality for fat people, and to work towards ending body shaming for people of all sizes.

Some of the indignities and discrimination fat people are truly abhorrent, and sometimes actually life-threatening. Late diagnosis of chronic or terminal illnesses because every single symptom, no matter how alarming, was blamed on the patient's weight. So diagnosis came far too late for patients to access effective treatment. As a cancer patient myself, I found this particularly enraging.

Aubrey argues that t should be a neutral descriptor just like "tall" or "red -haired". Aubrey consistently advocates not just for fat people but other people with marginalised identities, including trans people, indigenous people, people of colour, black people, disabled people, immigrants and others l.

I really respect Aubrey as a person. Her writing and advocacy through her books and the Maintenance Phase podcast is thoroughly researched, science based, and a great contribution towards a more inclusive and egalitarian society.