How to End Your Fight with Food by Claire Turnbull

In End Your Fight with Food, Claire Turnbull offers a refreshing, compassionate alternative to the quick-fix diet mentality that so often dominates health discourse. Drawing on both her professional expertise and personal experience, Turnbull delivers a well-researched and practical guide for anyone tired of the relentless cycle of dieting, guilt, and self-blame. This is not a diet book. Rather, it is a thoughtful roadmap to long-term wellbeing that reframes our relationship with food, body image, and health itself.

At the heart of the book is the idea that true health is not found in calorie counting or obsessive willpower, but in developing self-awareness, sustainable habits, and a broader sense of balance. Turnbull challenges the conventional focus on weight as the primary marker of health, encouraging readers instead to focus on how they feel and function. Through gentle but clear-headed advice, she dismantles the myth that we can willpower our way to wellness and instead explores the psychological and emotional factors that underpin our eating patterns.

The structure of the book is both accessible and holistic. Broken into twelve core areas ranging from nutrition and movement to stress management, sleep, relationships, and even purpose, Turnbull's approach is comprehensive. This breadth is a strength, allowing readers to see how food choices are intimately connected to other aspects of life. Each section includes practical tools and relatable case studies that make the content immediately actionable.

One of the book’s standout qualities is its warmth. Turnbull writes with empathy and without judgement, acknowledging the very real struggles many people face around food. Her tone is encouraging, never preachy, and she strikes a balance between scientific rigour and conversational clarity. Her goal is not perfection, but progress. Readers are encouraged to let go of unrealistic expectations and cultivate kindness towards themselves; a message that feels especially timely in a world obsessed with aesthetic ideals.

Claire Turnbull’s End Your Fight with Food is an empowering and deeply sensible guide to reclaiming health on your own terms. It encourages readers to move beyond the scale, to nourish rather than restrict, and to live a life rooted in self-compassion and purpose. For anyone ready to stop battling food and start caring for themselves holistically, this book offers real, lasting hope.

Reviewer: Chris Reed

Allen & Unwin