So begins The Diet Survivor’s Handbook: 60 Lessons in Eating, Acceptance and Self-Care.

While all diets can produce short-term weight loss, 95-98% of all dieters regain the lost pounds, often plus some, within 1-5 years. You are taught that you are to blame for gaining back the weight and that the only choice is to go on another diet, this time with more determination and willpower. But to you we say, “You haven’t failed your diet, your diet has failed you.” This book explains the physiological and psychological reasons that diets don’t work. It encourages you to become a “diet survivor,” by getting off the diet roller coaster and jumping on the non-diet bandwagon of living fully and joyfully in your body through the life-affirming action of feeding yourself based on internal cues of hunger and satiety. The Diet Survivor’s Handbook: 60 Lessons in Eating, Acceptance and Self-Care. While all diets can produce short-term weight loss, 95-98% of all dieters regain the lost pounds, often plus some, within 1-5 years. You are taught that you are to blame for gaining back the weight and that the only choice is to go on another diet, this time with more determination and willpower. But to you we say, “You haven’t failed your diet, your diet has failed you.” This book explains the physiological and psychological reasons that diets don’t work. It encourages you to become a “diet survivor,” by getting off the diet roller coaster and jumping on the non-diet bandwagon of living fully and joyfully in your body through the life-affirming action of feeding yourself based on internal cues of hunger and satiety.