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Psychology & Human Behavior

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The Psychology of Being Fat

How We Arrive Gradually, Adapt Quietly, and Discover That Losing Is Not Gaining in Reverse

Body change often arrives through accumulation and adaptation rather than a single dramatic choice; reversal is psychologically and physiologically different from simply “undoing” the path that produced gain.

The central argument

What this book is trying to do

Body change often arrives through accumulation and adaptation rather than a single dramatic choice; reversal is psychologically and physiologically different from simply “undoing” the path that produced gain.

Who it is for: Readers interested in behavior change, identity, weight, adaptation, stigma, self-regulation, environment, and agency without moralizing body size.

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Inside the book

01Ordinary Life
02Gradual Accumulation
03Identity Lag
04Resistant Reversal
05Agency Without Blame

Key ideas

Questions and concepts carried through the work

  • Small repeated differences can accumulate into large long-term change.
  • Identity can lag behind the body a person currently inhabits.
  • Hunger, adaptation, habits, stress, environment, and biology can make reversal resistant.
  • Agency becomes more useful when separated from blame.

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