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  • You Are Not a Before Picture

  • How to Finally Make Peace with Your Body, for Good
  • By: Alex Light
  • Narrated by: Alex Light
  • Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (43 ratings)

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You Are Not a Before Picture

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An urgent, enlightening and empowering guide to disavowing diet culture and learning to make peace with our bodies, from body confidence and anti-diet advocate, Alex Light.

When we look in the mirror, so many of us see a ‘before’ picture: the miserable person in the side-by-side shot waiting for the ‘glow-up’ (read: weight loss) that will bring true happiness. But it’s not our fault that we see our bodies as projects in need of constant work: this is just one of the beliefs that has been ingrained in us by diet culture. We have been taught to view ourselves as a collection of ‘problem’ areas for which the billion-dollar diet industry holds the solutions.

Step-by-step, You Are Not A Before Picture provides a framework for changing the way we view ourselves and the world around us. Working with experts in the fields of psychotherapy, fitness and nutrition, Alex empowers readers to interrogate their underlying beliefs, challenge the external and internal forces that are holding us back, and finally find freedom in our bodies, for good.

Alex Light was a number 4 Sunday Times Non Fiction bestseller in the w/e June 19th 2022

©2022 Alex Light (P)2022 HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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‘A timely and passionate rally against the diet industry.’ Cosmopolitan

You Are Not a Before Picture sets out to dismantle dangerous dieting habits and encourage self-acceptance.’ HELLO

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Extremely Helpful Book!

I follow Alex on Instagram and find her account incredibly inspiring. Like most women I’ve struggled with my body image since I was a teenager and this book had an immensely powerful impact on my body image. I stopped to cry a few times during the book because I realized that I didn’t have to hate my body all these years and what a waste of time it was to send so much hatred towards myself. I want to recommend this book to everyone I know. It’s a great intro to body positivity and body acceptance for anyone looking to get started on changing their body image. Thank you Alex for gifting this to the world!

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Really connected with this author and book..

In this book, Alex shares her experiences with weight obsession and eating disorders. She also discusses the never ending cycle of dieting and trying to reach for beauty perfection. I really connected with everything she had to say. This is a must read for anyone struggling with weight obsession/ eating disorders.

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Love it!

My body is merely a vessel that holds all the good stuff! This was really impactful to me!

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Such a good book that I would recommend anyone read!!

If you are struggling with body image or an eating disorder, she puts it in perfect words to help change your life! Love love love it!!

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absolutely incredible

this book will help you transform your mindset about your body, not your body itself

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