"What if diets are the problem, not me?" This book challenges everything we've been taught about food, health, and body image—and it delivers. Julie Duffy Dillon expertly unpacks the harmful, systemic forces behind diet culture and helps readers reclaim their relationship with food. If you’ve ever felt like you were “failing” at dieting, this book will make you rethink the entire system.

I appreciated how Dillon breaks down the Seductive ‘I-Should-Eat’ Script, exposing the shame and blame that diet culture forces on us. Her approach is compassionate, insightful, and empowering, urging readers to ditch toxic food rules and embrace body liberation. While some sections felt a bit repetitive, the overall message is clear: your body is not the problem—diet culture is.

In Find Your Food Voice, Julie Duffy Dillon brings her passion and deep expertise to the forefront, offering a compassionate guide to body and food liberation. With a blend of vulnerability, wisdom, and clarity, she weaves together her own experiences as both a provider and individual—alongside the voices of others—to reveal how diet culture and oppressive social structures shape our relationship with food and our bodies.
As a provider in this field, I found her reflections to resonate deeply with my own experiences—both in supporting others and in navigating these systems myself. This book is not a one-size-fits-all prescription but a gentle invitation to explore what food freedom can look like on your own terms. With open-ended prompts, detailed steps and guides that adapt to each individual, and education based in science and lived experiences, Julie empowers readers to follow their unique path toward healing. Find Your Food Voice is an essential read for anyone seeking a more liberated, compassionate connection with food and themselves.

As the author of this book, I am honored you are reading and reviewing it. A complicated history with food destroys relationships, impacts health, and carries too much stigma. I hope my book's words help you peel away the years of shame and blame dumped on you from the diet industry and oppressive systems. No matter how tough things are with food, I have hope and so do your fellow readers that you will rewrite your fate.

In a sea of weight-centric diet books, Find Your Food Voice is a breath of fresh air to society! Julie takes a true ethical approach to navigating having a body. As a weight-inclusive clinician with fat lived experience, I am thrilled to see the bolstering of food and body healing through a fat positive anti-oppressive lens. What a gift.

Although my reading experience with books focusing on diet culture and our relation with food is quite limited, I found this book interesting, and different from my previous reads. Identifying the close relationship between the oppressive systems and the perception of our own bodies was one of the highlights of this book, and I enjoyed this narrative. Providing real life examples through mentioning the challenges experienced made the book relatable, however I found some parts repetitive. Overall, this was a refreshing read, and reminds the reader that one's relation with food does not have to be regulated by the systems we live in, but needs to be experienced by ourselves. Thank you NetGalley, the author and publisher for an advanced reading copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

This is an extremely well researched and informative book. I was quite stunned by the facts and figures relating diet culture to racism, sexism and more. These were factors that I had never previously considered. The author very thoroughly explores the development of weight management and the prejudices and taboos concerning body size. I found the first part of the book absolutely fascinating. The ideas and suggestions to help those suffering from obsession with losing weight and fear of food are original and may be very appealing to some people suffering in this way. This goes far beyond simple intuitive eating, which, as many of us know, is incredibly difficult to achieve after years of disordered eating. The practical advice is extremely detailed and thorough. Obviously, putting these principles into practice does require determination and effort, but so does dieting, and that has been comprehensively shown to fail. Personally, I prefer the simpler, less whimsical approach offered by Gillian Riley in Eating Less, but that is simply my own preference. I would strongly urge anyone who has spent years being failed by conventional diet wisdom to read this book and seriously consider taking on board the strategies offered. I have to confess that reading it, even without fully embracing the techniques, was enough to free me up sufficiently from my self imposed eating prohibitions to thoroughly enjoy a recent lunch out. Whereas I normally carefully consider the nutritional value, particularly calories, of my choices, I actually allowed myself to select the dish that I most fancied from the menu. That, as many of us disordered eaters know, is progress.

As someone who had a lifelong struggle with disordered eating, and living in a marginalized body, this book was so incredibly informative, and empowering. It has such helpful, practical steps for anyone taking their first (or 100th) step on their journey to reject dieting. It was really refreshing to hear the author speak openly about how oppressive systems impact people's body sizes, as well as our societal ideal of what a body "should look like". And, as an anti-diet focused cooking instructor, I will be recommending it to all my clients!

Julie has done a tremendous job exposing the diet industry and our society as a whole for creating patterns of eating disorders in so many of us. I was shocked by what I learned: that NO diet has ever been successful with a majority of participants over the long term (5 or more years), and that cycling through diet programs actually leads to poorer health outcomes down the road. As someone who has always wanted, and repeatedly tried, to fit the most-desired, thin body type, I think that this book is the beginning of a healing process for me, and the creation of a more balanced approach to food. If you're someone who doesn't believe that racism, sexism, and homophobia exist, you'll probably be frustrated with this book, but if you're open to the idea that a sexist, racist, and homophobic society has created an ideal "white, straight, thin" body type and is encouraging all of us to starve our bodies and deny our selves to achieve that, this is the book for you.

As someone living in a marginalized body (proudly fat), I found this book incredibly refreshing and validating. Hearing the author’s perspectives and experiences - many of which resonated deeply with my own - was both eye-opening and empowering.

This book has me fired up to dismantle oppressive systems, continue my anti-diet journey, and support others who are looking to break free from diet culture for good. The author’s relatable and compassionate writing style makes it easy to connect with their message, and their passion shines through every page.

I would highly recommend this book to anyone tired of dieting and looking for actionable steps to reclaim their relationship with food and their body. I’m already planning to buy copies for friends and family—it’s truly a must-read! Voice Finders UNITE!

I really wanted to like this book. But it didn't really have any new information other than to suggest intuitive eating as the best strategy. Also, the constant political commentary was extremely distracting. I found that it took away from the author's message.

This is an absolutely fascinating look at the fallacies of diet culture, past, present, and future. I am finding it very helpful on my own anti-diet journey, which I’ve only just begun several months ago. I like the activities that the author suggests and will use them in my daily life. The only thing I found frustrating was the fact that her link to the page on her website where the extra worksheets and activity directions exist, were not available.

Thanks to NetGalley, the author and publisher for an advanced reading copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

I couldn’t get into this book. Very repetitive & took a long time to get to the point. I can’t say that there is anything I can implement from this book. Was really hoping for some good information & advice but I unfortunately didn’t. Not the book I was expecting.

This book was a great dive into the oppressive nature of diet culture, exposing its roots in racism, ableism, and misogyny. I really enjoyed seeing the author's suggestions for our to repair our relationships with food without succumbing to the widespread diet culture of our society.

Everything I wanted in a book! I hope a ton of people read it and get help from the messages we've told ourselves for years about food. Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC.