The F*ck It Diet: Eating Should Be Easy

I saw myself in some of the comments about food and dieting in the beginning but I just can’t wrap my head around the program. If you were thin and your weight only bounced around about 20 pounds I could see giving this a try but why would anyone want to gain a bunch of weight? The program encourages you to eat a lot, way more then you were eating before, eat when you are not hungry (everyday at least once) and to binge. You are encouraged to gain weight and to take up space and get used to being fat because you probably won’t lose much. I was confused because the author said she wasn’t fat and refers to others as being fat (a word that seems to resonate with her) so I googled her and not only is she really thin,she is an actress and does burlesque. So how does she speak for those who are overweight? Why isn’t it ok for people to want to be thin like she is? Gaining weight will not make me feel better or magically become healthier no matter what the author thinks. When she puts on a hundred pounds and not try to lose it then maybe I would want to listen to her.

I actually cancelled my preorder because I didn't want another diet book. Then I kept seeing on IG how funny and life changing the book was for many people so I ordered it again. I was hesitant...I wanted to just feel free around food. Was this book going to be the answer or just another diet? Then I started reading...then I started crying. I was overwhelmed with emotion and all I could do was cry. I related to everything in this book especially the 40 packs of gum a day the Minnesota Experiment people ate because they were starving. I was so happy to see that the hunger scale is not used when it comes to this. That hunger scale has caused me many nightmares and panic attacks over the years. Throwing it out is liberating. I'm on page 85 and I feel so different already. I allowed myself to eat yesterday and a crazy thing happened, I actually felt energized and stress free. I also took my scale and threw it in the trash. The best $100 I have ever thrown away. If you have ever struggled at all with your relationship to food, read this book. After all, you've already tried everything...why not just try this too. I bet it will be different. It already is for me.

As an Non-Diet Registered Dietitian, I found this book to be extremely scientifically sound. Caroline found the perfect balance of presenting evidence based information and explaining tough concepts in a down to earth manner. This is a must read for anyone struggling with food and body!

After reading the countless glowing reviews of this book, I was so excited to have finally found a new way of approaching food and the opportunity to reevaluate my relationship with food and exercise. My hope and excitement was short lived. As a lifelong yo-yo dieter, binge eater, emotional eater, and general disordered eater, I truly thought this book would help me correct my relationship with food. However, the more I delved into the book, the more disgusted I became with the author's message to the reader. Telling people who have a rocky past with food and exercise that binge eating, eating when not hungry, "resting" as much as desired, and that eating to comfort emotions is a-okay is just plain irresponsible. I wanted so badly to enjoy this book; in fact, I tried my damnedest to overlook some of the more conflicting messages just to see the light that other reviewers had seen, but I cannot in good conscience support this book. Encouraging finding comfort in food, eating whatever and whenever in copious amounts, and denying that unhealthy additives are put in our food is a gross misuse of this author's platform. That being said, I can appreciate the author's want for readers to love and appreciate themselves for things beyond their weight and general physical appearance. However, encouraging unhealthy fitness and eating habits in readers and stating that if readers continue to eat junk they will magically snap out of their binge eating tendencies and begin to crave salads and foods that balance their bodies' systems is ludicrous. In fact, this book was so unsettling to me that it encouraged me to begin eating healthier and exercising more. In a sense, this book worked in reverse for me, I was so appalled with the author's message that I decided to shape up and start taking care of myself and my health because I did not want to be the out-of-control and lazy woman the author describes as being so "enlightened" in her book. I want to thank this book for giving me the kick in the pants that I needed to take control of my health back (in a way it didn't intend to). Readers BEWARE: this book is a sorry excuse to let people fall into poor health and put on the facade of being comfortable in an unhealthy body.

I got this book on a whim. I ran across the TFID on Instagram on the explore page (hiding in the cracks of weight loss and model photos), and it really spoke to me. It was the first movement I’ve seen that has no rules or guidelines. I have been struggling for the last 5 years. I’ve yo-yo dieted in and out of every diet there is. I usually resort back to very low caloric intake (1200-1500). The last year I have developed a severe binging disorder and thought that if I could just get the weight back off it would go away. It’s gotten much worse. I preordered this book as a last hope.I am somewhere between page 80-100 and yesterday I was able to eat freely, without binging, for the first time in over a year! I know by the end of this book I will truly have a new mindset toward food. This book is liberating!! It is truly a saving grace.

This book and Caroline’s teachings changed my life. I’m a different person today because of her and everything that I’ve learned here. After 2 years of being on TFID, I’m still endlessly beaming inside every day about how wonderful, easy, fulfilling, exciting, healthy, and gratifying my relationship with food is. There was a massive shift in my life when I started applying the physical, emotional, and spiritual principles that can all be found in this book. Thank you Caroline, for everything that you do and for this book!

This is literally the first review I have ever written on Amazon (and yeah I know everyone says that, but it's really true!)... This book is a revelation. I want to preach it EVERYWHERE...my husband is already sick of me!I'm 44 and have had years of struggling with diets, body image and self esteem...culminating in an urgent referral to a psychiatrist to treat my binge eating disorder. I got married at Christmas (I know, woohoo!!!) but was very self conscious and unhappy with my body - damn, if only I'd had this book a few months earlier.Anyway, I have it now and LOVE IT! I am FREE. My anxiety has gone, and I wake up with a spring in my step. I love food, and enjoy every mouthful. Yeah, I've put on some pounds BUT it's settled down now and I think I may be near to my 'set point'. Body image is something I'm still working on, but my god I'm in a GREAT place.For those worried, like my husband, that you're just going to eat and eat and eat, and end up on a documentary (!!) - WORRY NOT! I felt amazing this morning so decided to get on the scales for the last ever time - I was in a good place, and knew it wouldn't be a trigger. It was really just out of interest... Well, I'll be damned - I've lost weight. So all those doubts are now finally pushed aside. This does work. I didn't care if I had lost or not, but to know that my body 'has it sorted' was fascinating. (Scales are now in the bin by the way!)So.....there you have it! I have 3 tween girls at home and the 'lectures' have now begun! I am determined to save them so much pain and ensure they love themselves.Last words - BUY IT, BUY IT, BUY IT!.....oh, and THANK YOU Caroline :)xxxxxxxxx

Probably like any yo yo dieter, I’ve just about to had enough of the constant dieting, losing and then gaining weight so I had really high hopes for this book.I started reading the book and everything made so much sense to me, all my life I’ve been fighting the cycle of dieting. I was already a bit overweight when I started reading and I just felt so free and happy that someone finally told me that I can eat whatever I want!! Yay! Amazing, right? But one month on and I had to wear the biggest dress I ever bought and I was so uncomfortable all day, I wanted to cry and nearly ripped the dress off when I got home, stepped on the scales and I’m at the heaviest I HAVE EVER BEEN. I’m so sad because I now know that I will have to diet again to actually make my weight settle down again. I can’t be happy in a fat body because actually, I’m struggling to walk up the stairs, I find walking my dog difficult and even cleaning the house gets me out of breath! This is after one month!!! I cannot carry on with this book. The first thing I did was to check the references in the book .... hmm not sure that all of those are reliable sources, which made me wary straight away. I just can’t carry on with this book and ruin my health and body just because a skinny woman tells me to eat whatever the * I want. It also got very boring and repetitive half way through. So .. on a next diet I go.. thanks for nothing Carolyn. It will take me ages to get back to my normal, acceptable weight. And what I found very strange is that there are no stories from real people who followed this programme. Isn’t it strange? I’ve actually never been so angry at a book before. It made me fat and miserable! I wonder if Amazon publishes this review as I can’t be the only person who can see that this book is just another FAD! Wish I could turn back time and never clicked on the BUY button..

This is an excellent example of a book which genuinely can change your life! Ditch the diets and learn some techniques to get back in touch with your body and it's natural eating cues.Diets make you fat - fact! But when you've yo yo dieted for years you don't know how not to diet. This book is what you need to help with that! The writing style is easy to read and funny. I never leave reviews on books but I just had to with this one!For anyone who has struggled with dieting, body confidence, bingeing.

I’m baffled by the negative review. This book is wonderfully written and delivers a message that should be mainstream. I’ve wasted years dieting and hating my body, and only now at the age of 26 am I being introduced to material that tells me it’s okay to love myself, it’s okay to eat a burger and it’s okay to be bigger/fat/curvy, whatever word you want to use. I wish I could’ve given this message to my teenage self.

I've read quite a few anti-diet/intuitive eating/health at every size books, and whilst they have generally been pretty good, this book has affected me like none of the others have. I bought it on kindle, read through it once, and already I am seeing a difference - that's before I even read it a second time and start doing the exercises! In fact, I've bought the book again, this time in hardback so that I can bookmark pages, highlight bits, keep a track of the exercises etc. I've never ever bought a book in two different formats before but that just shows how amazing it is! I've already noticed that I have much, much less fear, guilt and anxiety around both eating and being hungry, and that without even thinking about it or 'monitoring' myself, I just know when to stop eating. I'm just done. Caroline is a genius! I LOVE the way she writes - sarcastic and funny but very clever with all the science to back it up. Thank you Caroline for this life changing book!