If Mindset and Atomic Habits joined forces to help you lose weight, it would be this book. By the end of this book, you'll be ready to stop living your life in order to lose weight and start living the life you want to lose weight for. This isn't another boring diet book. It's a mindset revolution.It's a smarter way to approach sustainable weight loss, especially if diets have never worked for you. If you've ever felt like a failure because you "just couldn't stick with it," you're not alone. And you're not the problem.The real problem is that diets taught you to chase perfection, ignore your body, and rely on shame as motivation. That approach works temporarily, then leads straight back to overeating, burnout, and weight regain.In LIGHT: The New Psychology of Weight Loss, Lizzie Merritt helps you hit Ctrl+Alt+Delete on old diet rules and rebuild a healthier, more realistic way to lose weight and keep it off. This book is for you if you are: tired of starting overconstantly emotionally eating at nightor worried about regaining weight after weight loss drugs like GLP-1s.With warmth, humor, and science that actually makes sense, Lizzie introduces the L.I.G.H.T. Method: a simple, flexible, experiment-based approach that helps you stop beating yourself up, start learning what truly works in your real life, and turn curiosity into your superpower. Inside the book, you'll learn how to: Let go of guilt and understand why overeating happensUse small, low-pressure experiments instead of rigid rulesBuild habits that support long-term weight lossStop waiting to be happy until the scale changesCreate weight loss that feels sustainable, not exhaustingUnlike most books that skim the surface, LIGHT explores the patterns that quietly keep women stuck, including all-or-nothing thinking, perfectionism, stress eating, and the fear of regaining weight after success.This book is for women who want weight loss that lasts.Women who are done with diets that fail, tired of thinking about food all day, and ready for a way forward that feels doable.LIGHT is a refreshingly entertaining guide to reshaping your relationship with food, weight, and yourself. It skips calorie charts and food rules and tackles real struggles like stress, self-sabotage, and the internal pressure to be perfect.It's funny, compassionate, and easy to read (yes, even the brain science parts).And it gives you permission to get curious instead of critical, offering real tools to help you trust yourself again. Whether you've tried every plan under the sun or you're just tired of thinking about food 93.7% of the time, LIGHT offers a totally new perspective and a way to lose weight and keep it off without putting your life on hold.