Food Freedom
How to find peace from food anxiety, and reclaim your body confidence
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Narrated by:
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Elle Mace
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Elle Mace
725,000 people are affected by eating disorders each year in the UK
Women are more than twice as likely to have an eating disorder than men
With the GLP-1 conversation growing, as access to weight-loss drugs is rolled out more widely, this book is a timely and essential guide to how to build healthy patterns and mental clarity around food.
If you are living with constant food noise, Food Freedom will help you find peace from food anxiety, and begin to love and trust your body. For all women living with disordered eating and hoping to finally find a way to break the pattern.
Grounded in positive psychology and Elle Mace’s expertise as a professional qualified Eating Disorders Practitioner, and lived experience of 17 years with eating disorders and body dysmorphia. Includes vital contribution to the conversation around GLP-1s, and the urgent need to mindfully approach the integration of medications into the the weight-loss world.
This book offers a clear toolkit to loosen the grip of disordered eating and diet culture, and truly find lasting food freedom. In a world obsessed with numbers – on the scale, in calories, steps or on clothing labels, Food Freedom shifts the focus to what truly matters: developing a healthier mindset, fostering self-acceptance and cultivating a sustainable, fulfilling relationship with food and body.
© Elle Mace 2026 (P) Penguin Audio 2026
Next the book goes into detail of the various types of eating disorders - stuff I think many of us already know. And which selfishly some might think - I just want mine described and the ‘cure’ given. This is after the author has tried to convince us that being fat is ok. It’s not ok to us although as she later says it’s not really about our weight it’s about control. So hearing that being fat is ok - is confusing. It’s simply not ok to us. And I doubt it would have been ok for her back in her bingeing days. And fat is not healthy - it causes diabetes, mobility problems and increases our chance of getting heart disease and cancer. But - and I stress the but - most people with eating disorders have something far more complicated than a worry about their weight. And to be fair the emotional side of eating is quite well explained. And that diets don’t work (I know that, depressingly) So now what? I listen to it on my walks and have had three walks now and am no closer to finding out how to break the cycle. In fact I actually started to dread the thought of my walk and listening to another installment. It’s just listening to things I pretty much already knew. How did she cure herself and how can I? I don’t know.
I hadn’t binged for a very long time. Months. Maybe a year? But a sense of frustration triggered me to binge in the past 2 days. I am not fully clear why. I think emotionally I am disappointed that the book is frustrating me rather than helping. That it’s written by someone who knows what being trapped in a diet, binge and exercise cycle is like but they can write something that just doesn’t get to the point. I’m not risking being triggered again. If I read (listen) to more of it while learning that ‘keeping my mind busy takes my mind off food’ (that’s not enough!!) I suspect I’m going to binge again. So I’m moving on. Instead of wiring down what she knows about the diet industry I just wish she had written down how to break free from a disorder.
A far better way to write these self help books is to give someone real hope in the opening chapter. Help is contained in the story - just hang on. But don’t hang on too long. Because life is short! Maybe throw some snippets. But honestly listening to the definitions of eating disorders and how much the diet industry is worth feels like this book could nearly be added to that list. Diet books … anti diet books.
And I do need to point out the oft repeated howler. ‘muscle weighs more than fat’. Muscle and fat weigh exactly the same!! A pound of fat weighs the same as a pound of muscle. But fat is bulkier - so a pound of fat will be more like a melon with a pound of muscle being more like a grapefruit. This means you could get into a smaller dress size or two without losing weight by exercising. Muscle isn’t bulky.
One day I hope to write an anti diet book. Starting with a long account of years of dieting and bingeing and over exercising and staying home and a wardrobe full of 3 sizes of clothes. Then I’ll write chapters on the diet industry and why diets don’t work and definitions of eating disorders and then I’ll wish my readers good luck.
Sadly I’m non the wiser how to help myself.
Needs to get to the point
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