You Are Not a Before Picture: How to finally make peace with your body, for good

(Paperback)

Available Formats

Publishing Details

Classifications

Physical Properties

Description

An urgent, enlightening and empowering guide to disavowing diet culture and learning to make peace with ourbodies, from body confidence and anti-diet advocate, Alex Light.
When we look in the mirror, so many of us see a before picture: the miserable person in the side-by-side shot waiting for the glow-up (read: weight loss) that will bring true happiness. But its not our fault that we see our bodies as projects in need of constant work: this is just one of the beliefs that has been ingrained in us by diet culture. We have been taught to view ourselves as a collection of problem areas for which the billion-dollar diet industry holds the solutions.

Step-by-step, You Are Not A Before Picture provides a framework for changing the way we view ourselves and the world around us. Working with experts in the fields of psychotherapy, fitness and nutrition, Alex empowers readers to interrogate their underlying beliefs, challenge the external and internal forces that are holding us back, and finally find freedom in our bodies, for good.

Alex Light was a number 4 Sunday Times Non Fiction bestseller in the w/e June 19th 2022

Reviews

A timely and passionate rally against the diet industry. Cosmopolitan

You Are Not a Before Picture sets out to dismantle dangerous dieting habits and encourage self-acceptance. HELLO

Author Bio

Alex Light began writing as a teenager in the online communities of Episode Interactive and Wattpad. She has written dozens of love stories, accumulating over 100-million reads online. With a BA in English Literature, she has the perfect excuse to read too many books when she isn't busy writing her own. She lives in Toronto, Canada, with her dog, two cats, and a never-ending love for winter. The Upside of Falling is her first published novel.