Are you a certified Fierce Fatty or do you feel "less than" because you feel "more than"? You don't have to feel like this! Learn to embrace your fabulous self and finally feel confident with who you really are. Americans spend $66 billion dollars on trying to become thinner, every year. What if we spent less time, money and energy on the pursuit of thinness and instead focused on the things that actually matter? What if we could learn to love our bodies exactly as they are today? Fat, thin, tall, short, mullet-sporting or leopard print thong wearing; we are all worthy and fabulous.

“In this bold new book, Tovar eviscerates diet culture, proclaims the joyous possibilities of fatness, and shows us that liberation is possible.” —Sarai Walker, author of Dietland Growing up as a fat girl, Virgie Tovar believed that her body was something to be fixed. But after two decades of dieting and constant guilt, she was over it—and gave herself the freedom to trust her own body again. Ever since, she’s been helping others to do the same. Tovar is hungry for a world where bodies are valued equally, food is free from moral judgment, and you can jiggle through life with respect. In concise and candid language, she delves into unlearning fatphobia, dismantling sexist notions of fashion, and how to reject diet culture’s greatest lie: that fat people need to wait before beginning their best lives. “This book feels like spending a margarita-soaked day at the beach with your smartest friend. Virgie Tovar shares juicy secrets and makes revolutionary ideas viscerally accessible. You’ll be left enlightened, inspired, happier, and possibly angrier than when you started.” —Joy Nash, actress “Tovar is a vital voice in contemporary activism, media, and feminism. The joy she takes in her own body and life, combined with the righteous anger she expresses at an oppressive world is a truly radical act. She is deeply thoughtful, but does not equivocate. She confronts bigotry, but does not engage with bullshit.” —Kelsey Miller, author of Big Girl “Long-time body positive writer, speaker and activist Virgie Tovar is gifting brown round girls the book we’ve been hungry for.” —Mitú

You may have arrived at Emma's books because you want to lose weight. You want to stop suffering about your body. You want to be happy. This book is about how to be free from food obsession. But more than that, it teaches you how to trust yourself and listen to your body. Because once you do that, everything - the way you eat, the size of your body, the way you relate to the world - tends to fall into place.In order for you to trust yourself and listen to your body, you will need to know who you really are. Knowing who you really are leads directly to delight at the body you actually have. Imagine that. Along the way, you will begin to see your body as an amazing mechanism that once treated with dignity and respect starts to become everything you always wanted it to be. Somedays we all need reminding that we are more than the content of our food obsessed mind. That we are more than what we eat. That we are so much more than the shape of our legs. Looking at your body from the outside in, it's easy to notice imperfections, and then obsess over them. It's so easy in fact to focus on what is wrong we forget to remember what is right. Get comfortable with who you actually are and you will find tremendous power to live the life you always wanted. This book interrupts the old thinking patterns about food and diet and weight and feeling terrible in your skin. It opens up a new way of seeing yourself that will allow you to love yourself, eat peacefully and have the body you always wanted. Emma has been likened to Elizabeth Gilbert and Cheryl Strayed. The way she takes you on a real world, tell it like it is, tour of her life will make you laugh and make you cry. "Your approach is so ...well ...approachable! It is so honest and smart and clever and kind and VERY readable." ~ Liza Love Your Body, Change Your Life: Know Who You Are is Emma at her insightful best--sharing her remarkable journey, through her warm, likeable signature wisdom, and her techniques that result in rapid and life long change. "I am riveted. This book is a life change agent and it's written with such eloquence and ease, I just had to say how much I love it and how I am inspired by it. Whoa, whoa whoa!" ~ Ute "This book is really good, Emma! A lot of the ideas resonated with me - I think everyone has some degree of dissatisfaction with or obsessive thinking about food / weight / diet. Now I feel I have a real solution, that extends way beyond just food and weight" ~ Jo This is the first book in a remarkable series. Join the women and men around the world who have finally found freedom and peace with food and weight and start loving your body today. Start reading now and change your life.

Social media star Valerie Sagun is a powerful voice in the body positive movement. With more than 100,000 avid followers on Instagram and a constant stream of highly engaged traffic on her website, fans adore Valerie for her fearless acceptance of her beautiful body, her encouragement of self-love, and her phenomenal yoga skills. Valerie, her yoga practice, and her body positive campaign have been featured in People, Glamour, Marie Claire, Buzzfeed, Redbook, and more, where she's been celebrated for her exciting messages about self-acceptance-both on the mat and off. Now, in this complete guide, Valerie provides both inspiration and customized instructions for yogis of all sizes and shapes, along with passionate encouragement to help readers discover newfound confidence through the transformative power of yoga.

Powerful polemic, encouraging women to ditch their self-loathing calorie counting and embrace the fashionable fat woman within. Readers will devour Kinzel's refreshing approach to body image. Focusing on issues of size acceptance, feminism, gender studies and body images, Kinzel offers a range of alternatives to shame based views on fat and obesity. Actual statistics and facts about prescription diet remedies and weight loss programs are revealed. Kinzel challanges stereotypes and insists on issues of size and consumption being a personal choice.

From the national bestselling author of Birds of America comes “a brilliant collection” (The Philadelphia Inquirer) of eight exquisite stories of men and women stumbling through their daily existence. In Like Life, Lorrie Moore’s men and women, unsettled and adrift and often frightened, can’t quite understand how they arrived at their present situations. Harry has been reworking a play for years in his apartment near Times Square in New York. Jane is biding her time at a cheese shop in a Midwest mall. Dennis, unhappily divorced, buries himself in self-help books about healthful food and healthy relationships. One prefers to speak on the phone rather than face his friends, another lets the answering machine do all the talking. But whether rejected, afraid to commit, bored, disillusioned or just misunderstood, even the most hard-bitten are not without some abiding trust in love.