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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.

As a fat, trans, and autistic patient, 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 BBC2 Radio, appeared in a film documentary, and has been interviewed in numerous national and international newspaper articles.

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

“Over the years I’ve discovered that many of the things I was told about my weight are untrue, but as a lay person, who’s going to believe me? That’s why 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

“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.

As a scientist, when practically every medical organisation and doctor agrees that weight loss is globally good and fatness is a health epidemic, it can be hard to reconcile the harm I see, and have personally experienced, with the treatments supported by medical consensus.

Dr Asher Larmie has created a comprehensive, close reading of the actual medical research. Spoiler alert: it is lacking. Armed with a thorough understanding of what the research actually says, I feel much better able to advocate for myself in medical settings and push back.”

PhD in Child Psychology, book club member

“What I love about this book is that it is Asher through and through. It’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

“What stayed with me most after reading this book was realizing just how deeply rooted fatphobia is in our society, and how long these harmful systems have existed. I was especially shocked to learn that children have been taken away from their parents because of their size. Even as someone already aware that diets don’t work and that weight stigma is not a personal failure, this book profoundly reinforced how much harm has been caused – particularly within the medical system – and how important self-advocacy is. I would recommend this book to anyone who is fat. It contains vital, validating information grounded in facts and science.”

book club member

“Being fat is one of the last socially acceptable ways to insult a person. As a result, most who fit this category have experienced bias socially and medically, as well as internally. No Weigh! counters this and helps any reader not only better understand their body, it helps society better understand how wrong they’ve been. 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:

The invention of the “healthy weight” and who profits from it.
Why diets don’t work and never have.
The evidence that fat doesn’t cause disease and why doctors are still telling you it does.
How weight stigma in healthcare is killing people.
The pharmaceutical industry’s capture of medical research, guidelines, and education.
Why children are being targeted by the weight-loss industry.
What weight-inclusive, evidence-based healthcare actually looks like.