You Are Not a Before Picture

How to finally make peace with your body, for good

Alex Light

•Alex is an authoritative voice in the body confidence and anti-diet space, with a significant and engaged platform (437k Instagram, with 357k growth in the last year).

•Her posts regularly go viral for their powerful honesty and perceptiveness, and have been featured heavily in the media.

•There are some brilliant anti-diet, intuitive eating and fitness positivity books in the market You Are Not a Before Picture touches on each of these important subjects to offer a comprehensive, step-by-step framework for finding peace with our bodies.

•You Are Not a Before Picture taps into two key areas of the market: inspirational Instagram activism (What A Time to be Alone, Chidera Eggerue; Women Don’t Owe You Pretty, Florence Given) and voicedriven female/feminist self-help from authors with significant platforms (No One Can Change Your Life Except for You, Laura Whitmore; Speak Your Truth, Fearne Cotton).

•There’s an opportunity here to pitch Alex as a go-to voice to challenge toxic and fatphobic media rhetoric.

•She is incredibly well-connected and has a host of high-profile followers across the world, including Sarah Nicole Landry (@thebirdspapaya; 2 million); Sophie Hannah (@sophiehannah; 1.2 million); Anna Saccone (@annasaccone, 1.3 million).

After struggling with various eating disorders, Alex Light transformed her beauty and fashion blog into a digital safe space to help others. In doing so, she has opened up urgently needed conversations about eating disorders, weight stigma and diet culture, and she is passionate about using her platform to encourage change. Alex has a background in fashion and beauty journalism.

•Alex’s newly released podcast, ‘Should I Delete That?’ reached Number 1 in the UK Apple Podcast Charts.

An urgent, enlightening and empowering guide to disavowing diet culture and learning to make peace with our bodies, from body confidence and anti-diet advocate, Alex Light.

When we look in the mirror, so many of us see a ‘before’ picture: the miserable person in the side-byside shot waiting for the ‘glow-up’ (read: weight loss) that will bring true happiness. But it’s not our fault that we see our bodies as projects in need of constant work: this is just one of the beliefs that has been ingrained in us by diet culture. We have been taught to view ourselves as a collection of ‘problem’ areas for which the billion-dollar diet industry holds the solutions.

Step-by-step, You Are Not A Before Picture provides a framework for changing the way we view ourselves and the world around us. Working with experts in the fields of psychotherapy, fitness and nutrition, Alex empowers readers to interrogate their underlying beliefs, challenge the external and internal forces that are holding us back, and finally find freedom in our bodies, for good.

Alex Light was a number 4 Sunday Times Non Fiction bestseller in the w/e June 19th 2022

‘A timely and passionate rally against the diet industry.’ Cosmopolitan

‘You Are Not a Before Picture sets out to dismantle dangerous dieting habits and encourage selfacceptance.’ HELLO

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320pp B