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  • You Are Not a Before Picture

  • How to Finally Make Peace with Your Body, for Good
  • Written by: Alex Light
  • Narrated by: Alex Light
  • Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (5 ratings)

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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 listeners 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.
©2022 Alex Light (P)2022 HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Health & Wellness Mental Health Personal Success Body Image
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What the critics say

"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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Excellent even if you’re not struggling

This book offers very interesting ways of combating body issues both from an on looker and from the one experiencing it.

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For my girlies who are recovering

Prepare to feel called out, but lovingly so. I picked up this read while going through a bit of a lapse. It’s a very thorough read and it reminds me again of why I do what I do, and just how beautiful my body is no matter what. If you need a reminder like me, this is the book!

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