Two Whole Cakes: How To Stop Dieting And Learn To Love Your Body (2012) - Plot & Excerpts
I see so much of myself in this woman. Her experiences as a fat child were my experiences. The torment and the pain that goes along with growing up different than the other kids is so recognizable. It's difficult now as an adult not to hate my body for all the things that people made me believe about it growing up. However, this woman is on it about putting all that away and learning to love it. We only have one body and it does so much for us, might as well learn to love it. Books about fat/body politics help me keep sane, and this one, with a more in depth analysis than many, was so, so good. I particularly liked Kinzel's discussion of liberal vs. radical fat politics, which created such a clearer understanding of my own frustratingly liberal politics and why they leave me so unhappy that my brain may have actually exploded. It's so hard to maintain my own politics in the face of a constant barrage of reasons I should hate my fat self, but books like this one make all the difference.
What do You think about Two Whole Cakes: How To Stop Dieting And Learn To Love Your Body (2012)?
I will read this again and again and again. Two Whole Cakes is an affirmation.
—taymoho
Repeatitious diatribe about learning to be comfortable in a large body.
—Trintan
I saw myself in every single page. Amazing book.
—Alanna
