New book! Mrs D is (Not) on a Diet

After 10 years of highlighting the many wrongs with our alcohol culture (and there are many!), I'm now taking a swipe at another damaging cultural norm - diet culture. 

Diet culture. Do you know much about it? I didn't. I had no idea that we were living under a system of beliefs that are based on a twisted system of misinformation that cause so much harm. 

It's actually unbelievable when you start exploring and unpicking it. Diet culture is deeply embedded, we're all negatively impacted by it, and yet it's fundamentally flawed. Flawed I tell you! 

So, as with alcohol culture when my eyes started opening, I've written about it. Written about my innermost insecurities, inner dialogue and secret truths, while exploring, researching and interviewing others.

Mrs D is (Not) on a Diet is out in Feb '25 and to say I'm nervous is an understatement (writing about your alcohol addiction is one thing, writing about the fat on your body is another). But I'm also feeling excited and strong. 

Below is the back cover blurb and Pre-orders are here https://lnkd.in/gEAVR_BN

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Lotta Dann’s journey with extreme dieting and drastic weight loss led to endless praise for her skinny body. But no one knew what she had to do to maintain it.

When the weight came back on, Lotta started asking fundamental questions that she’d never considered before.

Why do we believe that to be healthy you must be skinny? Why do we think any measure of fat on our body is bad? Why do so many of us hate our bodies? And why do we spend so much time, money and energy trying to shrink ourselves?

The answers surprised her, angered her, and ultimately empowered her. She thinks they will do the same for you.