I finished reading Josie Spinardi’s Thin Side Out: How to Have you Cake and Your Skinny Jeans Too. 

Here’s what I posted as a review on Amazon:

This book is like a bite-sized version of Overcoming Overeating (A LOT of her techniques are from this book- she just re-labels them- ie. “hunger directed eating” is “demand feeding”- not sure she’s read their work though, since she doesn’t credit them at all), also- Geneen Roth’s works (which she does credit), Intuitive Eating and a host of other books dedicated to kicking dieting to the curb and figuring out how to feed yourself from physiological signals again (or from your “thin-telligence” as she cutely terms it). It has been a while since I read any of the aforementioned books and I’ve sworn off dieting at least twice only to return to the pressure. I was hoping for a new perspective but only received a booster shot from the “diets don’t work” camp.
That being said, this book did inspire me to return to a diet-free/natural-path of feeding myself. The concepts presented aren’t new to anyone who’s been looking into this line of thinking for a while, but she did do a few interesting things that I found insightful including: reframing “non-hunger related eating” as a psychological symptom of dieting. I like how she consistently asks the reader to recognize that. Though others have exposed this, she cuts to the chase about it in a fun and personal way, and works to build your confidence; reminding you that you can, in fact, figure it out. Thanks Josie!
I find this journey to be intensely personal, which this book shows but doesn’t address, and while reading it was inspiring and served as a well-intentioned reminder to trust my body, it didn’t give me a lot of new “how to” tools as I had hoped. I’m a fan of finding things that motivate me so I recommend this book.
I gave it four stars because it’s only available on kindle as mentioned by a ton of other reviewers- … but also because so much of this book was a condensed appropriation of many other people’s work that she presents as some kind of revolutionary thinking.
Overall- if you’re new to the “stop dieting” discourse this will give you an overview and inspire you to go for it. If you’d like a quirky booster shot that’s a quick read- this will do it the trick. It’s definitely geared toward the upper middle class (as suggested by a different viewer) but the basic concepts are useful to think about for a majority of readers.