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About Dr Asher Larmie

Dr Asher Larmie is a GP, fat activist, and founder of the No Weigh Movement. For the first twenty years of his medical career, he prescribed weight loss without question. When he finally stopped and started reading the actual research, what he found shocked him and made staying silent impossible.

As a fat person, he knows what it feels like to sit on the other side of the desk; to be dismissed, reduced to a number on a scale, and told that his weight explains everything. That experience, alongside the evidence he uncovered, made writing No Weigh! not just something he wanted to do, but something he had to do.

Asher has been featured on CNN, This Morning, and BBC Radio 2, appeared in a film documentary, and has been interviewed in numerous national and international newspaper articles. He is the host of The Fat Doctor Podcast and a leading international voice in weight-inclusive medicine.

The Book

Everything you’ve been told about weight and health is built on lies. Over nine chapters, No Weigh! exposes the false assumptions behind weight-focused medicine – from the invention of a disease called ‘obesity’ to the pharmaceutical industry’s stranglehold on clinical guidelines – and gives fat people the knowledge and the language to fight back.

Written by a GP who prescribed weight loss for twenty years before reading the actual research, this is the book the medical profession doesn’t want you to read.

No Weigh! Everything You’ve Been Told About Weight Loss Is A Lie

Dr Asher Larmie

Published: 20 May 2026

Format: Paperback and ebook

ISBN: 9798258597953

Available on Amazon

What People Are Saying

“It’s so important that a doctor wrote this book and there are references to the science and the research. Maybe other doctors will finally listen to us and believe what we’re telling them.”

Esther Laseur

The Netherlands

“I wish I could give it to all of my patients and colleagues.”

Dr Molly Moffat

GP, UK

“As a fat person moving through the world, it is not news to me that fat people are shamed, dismissed, and straight up disbelieved in medical settings. The harm is obvious. What is not always obvious is how to push back, and what to do instead. Dr Asher Larmie has created a comprehensive, close reading of the actual medical research. I feel much better able to advocate for myself in medical settings.”

PhD in Child Psychology, book club member

“What I love about this book is that i’s not a boring lecture like fat people have come to expect from a doctor. It’s packed full of examples and references but the tone and the language belongs to someone who knows fat people – someone who is one of us.”

Lisa

Fat activist and host of Mon Gros Podcast

“I would recommend this book to anyone who is fat. It contains vital, validating information grounded in facts and science.”

book club member

“If you’ve ever had a negative thought about a larger body, if you’ve got loved ones with larger bodies, or if you want to make sure you are confronting your bias before it hurts you professionally, this book is for you!”

Dr Kryss Shane

Author of the Medical Professional's Guide to LGBT+ Inclusion

Key Themes

For interview angles and story ideas, No Weigh! covers:

There’s no such thing as a healthy weight and BMI doesn’t tell you anything meaningful about your health, yet doctors use it to make life-changing decisions about your care.
Diets don’t work, they just make you fatter. Willpower won’t fix the problem because bodies are designed to resist weight loss.
Fat is not a disease or a diagnosis.
Your weight doesn’t make you sick but weight stigma does.
Your weight won’t reduce your life expectancy, but fatphobic doctors will.
Weight loss won’t fix the problem; it will just create new ones.
Doctors are prescribing eating disorders to their fat patients and calling it healthcare.
Maintaining your current weight isn’t risky but attempting to lose it is. Weight cycling (the inevitable result of repeated dieting) causes the very diseases doctors blame on fat.
Doctors can’t legally discriminate against fat patients, but the guidelines they follow are paid for by the weight loss industry.
GLP-1s aren’t a magic cure, but drug companies pay the medical profession to pretend that they are.
Losing weight won’t improve your health, but decent healthcare will. Our current system prioritises profits over patients.
No is a complete sentence. Fat people have the right to refuse weight-focused treatment; and this book gives them the evidence and the language to do it.

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