Alex Light > Quotes

“Despite what we're taught, real fulfilment only really comes from making a life that is meaningful - from building precious relationships and forming connections, pursuing passions, discovering your purpose, building a sense of self and living with compassion. Having a thinner waist is not going to be your legacy.”
― Alex Light, You Are Not a Before Picture

“Let’s also consider some evidence of a more anecdotal nature: if diets worked, every person would only need to do one in their lifetime. It would be a success and they wouldn’t need to diet again, right?”
― Alex Light, You Are Not a Before Picture

“You bought this book for a reason. Use it. Because life is too short to hate the skin you're in.”
― Alex Light, You Are Not a Before Picture

“Keeping women busy with body concerns is one way of making sure they stay quiet and obedient – of keeping them shrinking, literally and metaphorically.”
― Alex Light, You Are Not a Before Picture

“It’s hard to smash the patriarchy on an empty stomach, or with a head full of food and body concerns, and that’s exactly the point of diet culture,’ wrote Harrison, while Wolf famously said: ‘Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.”
― Alex Light, You Are Not a Before Picture

“Despite what we’re taught, real fulfilment only really comes from making a life that is meaningful – from building precious relationships and forming connections to pursuing passions, discovering your purpose, building a sense of self and living with compassion. Having a thinner waist is not going to be your legacy, I promise.”
― Alex Light, You Are Not a Before Picture

“Our set point weight is the weight you maintain when you are eating intuitively, honouring your hunger and fullness cues and engaging in joyful movement.”
― Alex Light, You Are Not a Before Picture

“diet culture is a set of beliefs that puts thinness, shape and size above all else and equates it with health, success, happiness and moral virtue.”
― Alex Light, You Are Not a Before Picture