No Weigh!

Everything You've Been Told About Weight Loss Is A Lie

For your whole life, doctors have been telling you that your weight is the problem. It isn’t. This book is the evidence.

This book is for anyone who has been told there is something wrong with their body because they weigh too much. It’s for anyone who dreads going to the doctor because they already know what’s coming. It’s for anyone who is blaming themselves for their medical condition, or being denied healthcare until they’re deemed thin enough to be worthy of it.

Over nine chapters, No Weigh! exposes the lies we’ve been sold about weight and health – lies that are as intentional as they are pervasive, designed with one purpose in mind: to make money. Lots and lots of money.

This book rails against conventional medical wisdom. It’s going to make you angry. It’s going to make you grieve. It might take you several attempts to read. But everything in it is backed by peer-reviewed research – and once you’ve seen how the system works, you won’t be able to unsee it.

This Book Is For You

If you’re a fat patient

You are already an expert on your own body. This book gives you the evidence that supports what you’ve always known deep down, and the language to challenge what has been done to you.

If you’re an ally

Someone you love has been harmed by a system that was supposed to help them. This book explains how and why, and what you can do about it.

If you’re a healthcare professional

This book wasn’t written for you, but you can get a lot out of reading it. Place yourself in your patients’ shoes. Sit with the discomfort. You owe them that much.

About The Author

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.

People tried to silence him. His credibility was attacked. His licence was leveraged against him. But this isn’t just professional for Asher – it’s personal. 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.

The medical profession wasn’t ready to listen so he decided to take it directly to the people who needed it most. In the end, he chose to self-publish No Weigh! as an act of both solidarity and defiance – for every fat person who has been lied to, let down, and told to come back when they’ve lost the weight, and for a conversation that couldn’t wait any longer.

What People Are Saying

“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

“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

“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

“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

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No Weigh! is available now on Amazon.

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