Fed up with being made to feel fat and frumpy by photographs of stick-thin super-models?
Tired of being tormented by guilt when you cave in and order hamburger and fries instead of a salad?Irritated by the hectoring, evangelical tone of those diet books that swear they can change your life?
On Thursday, you can thumb your nose at the lot of them on International No Diet Day, when anyone who has ever denied themselves a spoonful of Haagen-Dazs is invited to pin a pale blue ribbon on their lapel and eat whatever they want, all day long.
A rally Wednesday at the London School of Economics will be attended by MPs, doctors and nutritionists, all aiming to "break the tyranny of thinness." A 15-point Bill of Rights for non-dieters is being produced to coincide with the event.
No Diet Day was instigated two years ago by Dietbreakers, an organization set up to challenge the notion that being thin means you are "more talented and intelligent, more popular and sexier, somehow a better person."
Chairwoman Mary Evans Young, a former "restrained eater," says No Diet Day's main aim is to put an end to some of the many indignities fat people suffer in their daily lives.
"That includes being passed over for jobs, denied medical insurance or turned down as adoptive or foster parents on the grounds that they are bad role models," she says.