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Praise for the Book
Featured in Family Circle, Marie Claire,
Shape, Women's Health and Fitness, Psychology Today, Natural Health,
Child, Today's Dietitian, and Social Work Today
"The book's plan centers not on counting carbs, fat grams or calories,
but on looking at how your weight affects your entire life and how
culture has influenced your body image. From there, you discover
how to trust hunger and fullness signals, relearn the youthful art
of combining play and exercise, and develop the knack of getting
encouragement from friends and family. Its personal tone and intelligent
style make this book a compelling read."
--SHAPE magazine
"Editor's Pick" for Diet and Health
--Barnes and Noble website
"Best of 2002" for Diet and Health
--Barnes and Noble website
"Dr. Oliver-Pyatt's book offers important insights into the
dieting industry, dieting myths and the psychological and physical
dangers related to a life spent focused on diet and weight control.
Fed Up! offers a comprehensive, well-defined plan on how one can
free themselves from the enslavement of counting calories, self-starvation,
binge eating, poor body image among other agonizing aspects of dieting.
The book provides well-defined tools on how to develop a healthy
relationship with food and your body. Dr. Oliver-Pyatt shares her
own process of self-discovery and breaking free from the prison
of dieting and an eating disorder and found her way to a healthy,
fit lifestyle. Her techniques are based on her personal and professional
understanding of the complex reasons people become caught up in
an endless cycle of dieting and weight gain".
Christine Hartline M.A.,
Executive Director, Eating Disorder Referral and Information Center
(December 2002)
"FED UP! by Dr. Wendy Oliver-Pyatt is a great name for a book
that bucks the trend and declares boldly that diets don't work.
Dr. Oliver-Pyatt then proceeds to describe a 10 Step Plan that will
lead to healthy weight loss and life changing success. The book
begins with several introductory chapters, including the author's
disclosures about her own struggles with weight loss, as well as
insights about our culture and various diet myths. This well-written
book delves into the psychology of eating disorders and provides
the practical steps needed to overcome them. …FED UP! does
not promise quick fixes --- but we already know that".
--Bookreporter.com
"[Fed-Up] provides brilliant common sense that unfortunately
is not so common…particularly effective for repeat dieter and
people with a history of failed diets…provides a voice of sanity
for which I have been very appreciative."
--Kerry Seymour, MS, RD, CDE
This book is a very common sense approach to understanding why we
overeat and how to start taking better care of ourselves. Furthermore,
it's written by a victim of weight-cycling who tells how she broke
free from the prison of dieting and found her way to a healthy,
fit lifestyle.
-Lenore Howe,
Executive Editor, SeekWellness
[Dr. Oliver-Pyatt's] tone is calming and encouraging and best of
all, her advice isn't radical or based on fads. This book is truly
anti-diet and her approach to healthy eating and healthy living
involves little more than good old common sense. Common sense? Isn't
that too simplistic? Not at all. As silly as it is, when it comes
to our bodies, few of us want to use common sense. We are not patient.
We want to believe the TV promises that you can watch fat melt away.
We want to lose 15 pounds in 15 days. So we eat the cabbage soup,
drink the chocolate-chalk flavored diet shakes and pop the diuretics,
each time hoping for permanent weight loss. But come on, folks.
We know better. Lose it, we can. Keep it off, we seldom do. Here's
the simple truth that we all know from our constant yo-yoing, but
need to be told: Diets don't work. They never have. They never will.
That is one of the main messages in this book. She writes in an
open, accessible style, reinforcing the message that we don't have
to take drastic measures to be fit and healthy. We don't have to
look like scarecrows to be sexy and happy. We just have to use our
heads. With her medical knowledge, she found a way to reshape her
body by first reshaping her attitude about food and by focusing
on the reasons behind people's unhealthy eating and fitness habits.
Because she, herself, walked the walk, Wendy had strong feelings
about people's food obsession. In her book she writes: "For many
of us, eating preoccupation become a way of life. We wake up thinking
about what we ate the day before. We weigh ourselves before breakfast.
We judge whether a day is good or bad based not on what we learned,
enjoyed or accomplished but on whether we've gained or lost a pound."How
sad. How true. The good doctor, having used her medical knowledge
to redesign her own life, has devised an easy-to-follow ten step
plan that does not require dieting. Instead, her approach helps
us eschew our old, unhealthy habits by teaching us to think and
behave in new ways that challenge our self-defeating, unproductive
attitudes about nutrition and body image. Most of all, this book
teaches us to love and respect ourselves, something we all know
we should do, but don't often take the steps to do it...The results
are liberating, empowering and best of all, this program works!
The philosophy behind this book and Wendy's warm, personal delivery
feel as safe and welcoming as a 10-year-old child curled in the
arms of her wise, loving mother who strokes her child's hair and
says, "Honey, you're just beautiful as you are." After reading this
book and trying the program, I felt safe and relieved knowing I
no longer have to diet, knowing that if I can learn to trust my
body's hunger signals, I will finally lose the weight, knowing that
body image cannot and should not be dictated by the media. Hallelujah!
Wendy spends much time discussing self loathing and unrealistic
expectations that many of us yo-yoers have suffered over the years.
She spends time, too, talking about teaching children healthy attitudes
about their bodies, so they'll never have to fall victim to the
siren song of the media and perhaps develop dangerous eating disorders
such as bulimia or anorexia. Tailoring the right approach to healthy
weight and lifestyle is an individual pursuit.
Jillian Leslie,
EverydayWarriors.com
Instead of pushing the overweight into a new diet that keep them
addicted to getting model thin, Oliver-Pyatt, a psychiatrist, takes
another path. She leads readers into the thorny psychological issues
that beset dieters: cravings, overeating, and body image. Like a
smart best friend and guide, this book offers motivation, advice
and support for readers discouraged with dieting.
Oliver-Pyatt begins with her own story of obsessive dieting, bingeing,
and purging. At thirteen she began her first diet. The messages
from people close to her were that at 5’7" and 130 pounds she was
sloppy and fat. "I tried diet after diet, and with each failure
dieting became less a challenge and more a battle. In time dieting
stopped being something I could laugh about—and became the focus
of my life. The change was so gradual, so subtle, that I had no
idea that dieting and my quest for weight loss were damaging my
health and my psyche."
Eventually she turned to laxatives and vomiting, fasting and exercise.
Fear drove her to a doctor who diagnosed bulimia nervosa. Shocked,
she began the work to extricate herself from her obsessions. Through
her years of struggle and education, Oliver-Pyatt was able to accept
herself and to heal. This woman knows of what she speaks.
Oliver-Pyatt pulls the veils away from dieting and looks them square
in the face. She shows readers how accepting diet myths keep them
and their offspring locked into a "tyranny of slenderness." This
book exposes a world of food fear and negativity against the human
body. In doing so it helps to build a new view of fitness not just
thinness for readers.
Nothing valuable comes without work. Oliver-Pyatt, a practicing
psychiatrist, knows that life changes involve much struggle. She
has devised a ten-step plan that encloses dieters in the warmth
of a path she has herself travelled successfully. Steps One through
Three are preparation for a new way to fitness. Steps Four through
Seven are the ways to solve weight loss: experiencing hunger and
satiation, exercise, doctor’s care, and patience. Steps Eight through
Ten discuss eating secrecy, dieting and narcissicism, and eating
disorders and obesity in children.
This book is not for the faint-hearted or unmotivated. It calls
out to those who are truly ready to let go of diets and get healthy
and fit. Good as this book is, dieters will need support from other
sources too. Friends, guides, books, and doctors can only talk about
the path. The first and next steps are up to the reader.
In place of diets, Dr. Oliver-Pyatt offers a way to return to a
normal way of eating, a normal weight, and sanity. This book isn't
a new diet. It doesn't offer an eating plan. Instead, it shows you
how to change your relationship with food so that you neither eat
obsessively nor feel the need to diet anymore. It offers facts on
why diets are bad for you physically and emotionally, and why they
inevitably cause you to gain back what you lost (and then some).
In ten steps, it helps you reassess your relationship with food
and your body and gives you the tools to gain self-acceptance. If
you are overweight - or hate the way your body looks - and are contemplating
yet another diet, read this book first. It may change your life.
Dr. Oliver-Pyatt writes as if she is in the room with you and is
very supportive as she explains why we should not diet and how we
can lose the pounds safely. She writes about her own experiences
and feelings and offers advice on developing an effective fitness
plan.
Wendy provides parents the tools to help their children eat right
and exercise so that they will not develop eating disorders down
the line.
Most importantly, she speaks of body image and how to foster a postive
attitude.
I am not big on diet books, but Fed Up provides a healthy lifestyle
plan. One which is reasonable and encouraging. Dr. Oliver-Pyatt
shows you the facts and then gives you common-sense solutions. She
presents a lifestyle change that works.
This is one "no-diet" book I will keep on my shelf!
"Inspiring…[Fed Up] considers some important but neglected food-related
topics, like male eating disorders and how to inculcate health eating
habits in your child."
--Natural Health Magazine
"Wendy's book gives us back a clam sense of control…If you are ready
to break free from the prison of dieting, this ten-step plan will
help you to control your eating, lose excess pounds, and maintain
your ideal weight…Inspirational and insightful".
--The Rebecca Review,
Amazon.com Top Ten Reviewer
"Oliver-Pyatt argues that dieting is the problem rather than the
solution…the advice is straightforward and sensible…Oliver-Pyatt
has double credibility as medical doctor who struggled with weight
problems as an adolescent and teen and knows first hand how difficult
it is to maintain a healthy weight. The book is a refreshing approach
to weight management"
--Publisher's Weekly,
October 7, 2002
"Fed Up! offers the definitive solution to America's weight problem
and food preoccupation. It should be read by anyone who has tried
at dieting and failed, and by parents who want to see their children
develop healthy bodies and minds."
--Leah Schenk, M.D.,
Reproductive Endocrinologist and Infertility Expert
"Fed Up! is a revolutionary book that clearly outlines the keys
to a relaxed relationship with food, a diet-free life, and long-term
fitness. If you're tired of useless diets and weight-loss schemes,
this comprehensive ten-step plan offers an answer worth seeking."
--Brenda Erickson, M.D.,
Board Certified Psychiatrist and Eating Disorder Specialist
"I highly recommend Fed Up! as very important reading for the countless
men and women who have spent their lives struggling unsuccessfully
with weight control. Fed Up! clearly outlines a ten-step program
that will lead to successful long-term weight management and a pleasurable
relationship with self and food, as well as with your body."
--David A. Rosin, M.D.,
Medical Director,
Division of Mental Health and Developmental Services,
State of Nevada
"By powerfully redefining exercise, Fed Up! offers unique intuitive
tools and a perspective that will help the reader create and maintain
a fitness program that will lead to long-term physical health."
--Gus Williams,
former NBA player and member of the Seattle SuperSonics championship
team
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