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You Are Not a Before Picture

How to finally make peace with your body, for good

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You Are Not a Before Picture

By: Alex Light
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An urgent, enlightening and empowering guide to disavowing diet culture and learning to make peace with our bodies, 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 it’s 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

 Diets, Nutrition & Healthy Eating Eating Disorders Fitness, Diet & Nutrition Mental Health Personal Development Personal Success Psychology & Mental Health Weight Loss & Weight Control Health Body Image

Critic 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

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Very relatable book. Made me feel a whole lot better about myself. I would definitely recommend it to anyone struggling with body image issues.

Best book I've listened to this year

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insightful advice and information shared in an easy to listen to and understandable manner. She is clearly knowledgeable and passionate about the subject - empowering but in a realistic way.

Empowering realistic entertaining insightful

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I loved the history of diet culture explored and practical tips to get comfortable in the body you are in.

What I’ve always needed to hear

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This book has given me my life back. I no longer feel uncomfortable and unwelcome in my own skin and I’m embracing my 48 year old post baby body. I bought some shorts. F it! 😃

Would give this 10 stars if I could

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it's completely changed my views on diets, changed my life! would definitely recommend it

brilliant!

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