Fully Nourished: A Grace-filled Approach to Ditch Diet Culture and Find Peace with Food and Your Body

In this smart guide, Lardner (Breaking Free from Binge Eating) draws from personal dieting disasters and her experience as a nutrition coach to unpack how faith can free believers from an obsession with their weight. She begins with a mindset shift, explaining how readers can repair the damage to their self-esteem caused by failed diets by viewing their bodies as gifts from God and writing a list of things for which they’re thankful at the end of each day. Small habits, like taking a 10-minute walk after dinner, can help readers build a sense of self-control to fuel other healthy habits. More generally, Lardner advises readers to swap out rigid, all-or-nothing thinking for a flexible framework of eating in a way that “empowers you to serve others and honor God.” A few awkward suggestions aside (“Pray a short prayer every time you open the fridge”), Lardner succeeds in showing how faith can spur a healthier lifestyle by providing the inner fulfillment that emotional eating often stands in for. Christian women will be nourished in body and spirit. (Feb.)