A Physical Education: How I Escaped Diet Culture and Gained the Power of Lifting Ellen Heck and a quest for revenge

and a quest for revenge

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Laura Lippman

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A Physical Education: How I Escaped Diet Culture and Gained the Power of Lifting Ellen Heck and a quest for revengeWritten by the creator of the She's A Beast newsletter, this mash up of memoir and science writing is the rare story of a woman finding joy in a body that, for so long, she considered her enemy. A Physical Education traces Casey Johnston's journey from calorie restriction and obsessive cardiomaking herself small in almost every wayto the (unexpected) healing she found through the practice of lifting weights. As she progresses with weight training, she