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Struggling with Your Weight? Hate Your Body? You Need to Read This.

If you’re hoping for the next magic diet, delete.

If you’re hoping for the next perfect Pill, delete.

If you’re hoping for advice on how to more effectively evacuate your guts into the toilet, delete.

I could go on, but you get the message.

If, rather, you are or have, like me, battled the bulge, battled your hate weight, battled your self-image, had surgery or had eating disorders or tried every fucking diet on the planet, struggled with the last ten or the first eighty, spent vastly too much time being pissed at more than an inch your waistline, and even if you DO get uber thin, spent your waking hours horrified at the idea of a single peanut passing your lips, please read on.

In this recent New York Times Opinion piece by Jessica Knoll, the writer beautifully takes on the whole so-called “wellness” industry for precisely what some aspects of it are: a nicely-packaged, carefully-presented set of demands for the same old, same old: You MUST be thin. You MUST be gorgeous. Thin is gorgeous. Fat isn’t. Even an ounce of it is shameful.

Here’s how she puts it:

….a dangerous con that seduces smart women with pseudoscientific claims of increasing energy, reducing inflammation…