Unapologetic Eating

Eating is one of the great joys of life! But when diet culture makes you question every bite of food in the name of health, you need to take a complete 180. Rumsey's Unapologetic Eating offers the science, stories, and tools to step you through the process of finding food freedom with kindness. She teaches you how to eat unapologetically by questioning everything you've believed and bring back a joyful relationship to food and your body. --Rebecca Scritchfield RDN, Author of Body Kindness(R) This is exactly the book that we need to take us from huh? to aahhhh! when it comes to navigating our relationship with food, eating, and our body. In Unapologetic Eating, Alissa has done a brilliant job of supporting us to unpack the suitcase, take a compassionate and curious look around, then re-pack it in ways that make sense to US. This will be a go-to on my bookshelf for sure. --Fiona Sutherland Director, The Mindful Dietitian and host of The Mindful Dietitian Podcast Wow! This book delivers way more than it promises. It's actually a guide to life and liberation, one bite at a time. Unapologetic Eating? More like unapologetic LIVING. In other words: I loved it. You will, too. --Kelly Diels feminist marketing consultant, writer, and founder of KellyDiels.com This is a wonderful and comprehensive resource for healing your relationship with food. Unapologetic Eating is going to help you honor your inner wisdom and find freedom. If you are sick of the exhausting diet cycle, read this book! --Caroline Dooner author of The F*ck It Diet If you are tired of the endless pursuit of fixing your weight, shape, and/or physical appearance, then Unapologetic Eating is for you! This book both dismantles the colonialist roots of diet culture and provides practical tips for healing your relationship with food and your body. A must-read for anyone who is feeling trapped in diet culture and wanting to live a better and more fulfilling life-- on their own terms. --Jessica Jones, MS, RD, CDE Co-founder of Food Heaven and host of the Food Heaven Podcast Alissa Rumsey's Unapologetic Eating is more than an expose of the harmful shapeshifter that is diet culture. It is a practical tool to unlearn and ultimately heal from the faulty programming that causes us pain and confusion and a hands-on guide to reclaiming body trust and becoming truly embodied. The book's sections touch on the myriad facets of body image and our relationship with food and then the reflection questions support readers to expose and understand their own unique thoughts, beliefs, and behaviors so that they can be examined, reframed, and reimagined to align with their true values. --Jenna Hollenstein, MS, RDN, CDN author of Eat to Love: A Mindful Guide to Transforming Your Relationship with Food, Body and Life Alissa Rumsey brings both her rich personal experiences and professional expertise to the pages of Unapologetic Eating. Her four-phase framework is the multifaceted approach we need to understand the nuanced ways in which we are indoctrinated into diet culture, on both an individual and cultural level. Readers will walk away from these pages with tools, knowledge, and confidence that they can too can start to eat unapologetically, and live unapologetically. --Cara Harbstreet, MS, RD, LD owner of Street Smart Nutrition and author of Healthy Eating for Life: An Intuitive Eating Workbook Unapologetic Eating is a brilliant and exceptionally well researched read, an important and much needed addition to the anti-diet space. Alissa Rumsey dives deep into the problematic history that's fueled our modern diet culture, and it's obsession with controlling women's bodies and what they eat. With nuance, compassion, and humor, Alissa provides tools and practical advice to untangle ourselves from diet cultures' web of deception, and truly make peace with food and our bodies. --Rachael Hartley, RD owner of Rachael Hartley Nutrition and author of Gentle Nutrition