"This book delivers way more than it promises: it’s actually a guide to life and liberation, one bite at a time. Unapologetic Eating? More like unapologetic LIVING. In other words: I loved it. You will, too."
— Kelly Diels
Feminist marketing consultant, writer, and founder of KellyDiels.com



Eager to get started?
Download the first two chapters for free

About the Book
What would your life - and your world - look like if you felt comfortable, confident, and worthy in your here and now body?
If you could stop the endless pursuit of “fixing” - your weight, your body, your appearance, yourself - and allow yourself to just be?
Dieting disconnects us from our body’s wisdom and holds us back from living life to the fullest. The more time we spend trying to “fix” ourselves, the less time we have for the things that really matter.
In my book Unapologetic Eating, I share what I’ve learned from my own experience and through working with my clients: that our food behaviors (and our bodies) are not the problem, they are the symptom of deeper rooted societal issues.
Everything you think you “know” about food, appearance, body size, and more, is something you were taught at some point.
Everything you think you “know” about food, appearance, body size, and more, is something you were taught at some point. In Unapologetic Eating, I will walk you through unpacking and questioning everything society has taught you so that you can let go of dieting, make peace with food, and find your way back to your body, your intuition, and yourself. Using food as the entry point, the book helps you explore more about yourself, your beliefs, your values, and what you truly want out of life.
You will learn how to reconnect with your body and yourself using your relationship to food as the entry point—going from trying to “fix” or change yourself to unapologetic eating and finally to unapologetic living.

I’ve broken down this process into four segments:

Fixing

Allowing

Feeling

Growing
Each step of the way I provide reflection prompts, practical exercise, and actionable tools you can use to learn how to confidently nourish yourself physically, mentally, and emotionally.
You’ll learn how to make peace with food, improve your body image, trust your intuition, and reclaim the space
to eat and live unapologetically.
“Alissa's four-phase framework is the multifaceted approach we need to understand the nuanced ways in which we are indoctrinated into diet culture, on both an individual and cultural level. Readers will walk away from these pages with tools, knowledge, and confidence that they can too start to eat unapologetically, and live unapologetically.”
Cara Harbstreet
author of HEALTHY EATING FOR LIFE: AN INTUITIVE EATING WORKBOOK


Unapologetic Eating is more than just a book about intuitive
eating or food freedom:
it is a full on guide to liberation.
Which is why the book includes:

Dozens of reflection tools and journaling exercises so you can go deeper and unpack your own history with food and your body.
Thought provoking prompts to encourage you to question everything you “know” about food, bodies and appearance so that you can figure out what the real truth is inside you.


Practical tools and step-by-step suggestions on how to put the concepts into the book into practice, so you can not just read by actually do.
Personal stories, struggles, and triumphs from many of my clients.


Detailed research about health, weight, nutrition, and eating behaviors for all of the people who love to nerd out on the science.
Acknowledgement of my own privilege and limitations as well as citations of the Black and Brown women of color and fat activists who have been in the trenches doing this work for decades.


More Praise for
Unapologetic Eating:
Rebecca Scritchfield, RDN
Author of Body Kindness®
McKensie Mack
Founder of McKensie Mack Group Anti-Oppression Consultant and Racial Justice Leader
Kelly Diels
Feminist marketing consultant, writer, and founder of KellyDiels.com
Rachael Hartley, RD
owner of Rachael Hartley Nutrition and author of Gentle Nutrition
Jessica Jones MS, RD, CDE
Co-founder of Food Heaven and host of the Food Heaven Podcast
Jenna Hollenstein MS, RDN
author of Eat to Love: A Mindful Guide to Transforming Your Relationship with Food, Body, and Life
Cara Harbstreet, MS, RD
owner of Street Smart Nutrition and author of Healthy Eating for Life: An Intuitive Eating Workbook to Stop Dieting Forever
Fiona Sutherland
Director, The Mindful Dietitian and host of The Mindful Dietitian Podcast
