WHAT HAVE YOU GOT TO LOSE?
The Great Weight Debate and How to Diet Successfully
Shelley Bovey
£9.99
The size acceptance movement has shown us that our worth is not dependent on our weight and that the pressure to be thin can be a social and medical injustice. but while many large women theoretically celebrate their body, they still cannot accept their size.
What Have You Got to Lose? is a book for large women who may want to be thinner but don't know how to achieve it. More than a dieet book, it also examines the politics of health and weight and extracts the truth from the welter of claims that fatness or thinness is best.
Shelley Bovey - who herself has lost 6.5 stone - takes an analytical look at the popular methods of weight loss and their effectiveness, and offers a way out to those women who find that their fat body is a prison.
Shelley Bovey
is a writer and broadcaster. She is a contributor to the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph and several magazines and is the author of three books including The Forbidden Body: Why being Fat Is Not a Sin as well as the editor of Sizeable Reflections: Big Women Living Full Lives. The mother of three grown-up children, she lives in Somerset with her husband and a great many animals.