Two Whole Cakes: How to Stop Dieting and Learn to Love Your Body

How many times have you heard (or said), "Do these pants make me look fat?" Fatshionista extraordinaire Lesley Kinzel gives advice, tells stories, and challenges stereotypes about being and feeling fat in this powerful debut book. With the "war on obesity" shining a spotlight on the prevalence of fatness, our culture has become acutely critical of big sizes and the women who wear them. But are all fat people unhealthy? Should everyone be concerned about their BMI? Is it okay to eat what you want, and declare your body off limits to public critique? Lesley Kinzel says no to diet fads and pills, shows by example how to stop hating your body, and celebrates the possibilities of fat acceptance and smart fashion at any size.

Lesley Kinzel, who co-founded and moderated the blog Fatshionista for five years, is an online celebrity in the communities of size acceptance, fashion, and women's issues. She now has her own popular blog on body politics in the media, Two Whole Cakes, which gets seventy thousand hits per month. An associate editor of xoJane, Kinzel has become the go-to fatty for all things fat fashion and fat pop culture, and has been quoted on NPR, ABC News, CNN, Guardian, The Boston Globe, New York Post, and The New York Times.