Author: Caroline

young and the resting

Welcome

Alright.

“The Fuck It Diet” may have been shocking enough to catch your eye.

Maybe you were wondering what I actually mean by it.

Or, maybe you have had similar expletive sentiments towards diets and food phobias and weight obsession.

Or maybe you will never even read this far because you are highly offendeddddd.

But, plainly: I’ve been dieting for over ten years, and it has run me ragged. For so long, I thought dieting was the only way to get a hold of my “food addiction” but it turns out… the opposite is true. Dieting causes (what feels like) food addiction. Obsessing over weight loss causes (what feels like) food addiction. And I thought you deserved to know that.

So, on this site, as I write about what I’ve been learning as I heal my relationship with food and weight, there will be a fair share of questioning our collective body image norms, and challenging the images the media puts in our heads. This will also be a place to challenge some of the things we think of as “healthy” and “unhealthy”. Foods will be defended. Ideas will be defended.

But mostly: peace of mind will be defended.

Because, Fuck It means we don’t have to listen to what diets have told us, and suddenly there is a little space for peace.

I will do my best to make sure this site doesn’t add any more dogma into the world.

This site will hopefully be a Dogma Buster.

The use of the phrase “Fuck It” is supposed to be a spiritual phrase… “Let Go”.

Welcome to The Fuck It Diet.

I hope this site can offer you some peace of mind.

Show Me The Science

Free Open Access Journals on Weight, Dieting, and Health

(These two link to further studies. Lots to read.)

Weight Science: Evaluating the Evidence for a Paradigm shift.

Evaluating the Evidence for Prioritizing Well-Being over Weight Loss

More Resources on Weight Science

Unpacking Weight Science

Effects of Semi- Starvation

Weight-Set Point

Important Books on Food and Health:

Body Respect

Health at Every Size

In Defense of Sugar

Bad Food Bible

Intuitive Eating

Research on Sugar & Stress:

The Research of Ray Peat

Research on Stress & Inflammation

Stress, Inflammation, and Depression

Stress, Cortisol, and Pain

Books on Emotions/Trauma:

Waking the Tiger

The Body Keeps the Score

 

Some other random and noteworthy studies:

Milkshake Study – The power of beliefs over physiological responses

 

I hope this is helpful and supportive! This is also by no means an exhaustive list.