Anne Marie R. (murray) reviewed on 11/20/2008 + 3 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 7

I thought this book was hilarious. As someone who has also successfully lost weight, I felt the author perfectly captured how I felt during that time: frustrated it wasn't happening fast enough, frustrated that others thought it should happen faster, resignation that this is as far as your body will go, jealousy at those that lose more or lose quicker, the weirdness that comes with a new body and how people react to that ... I also appreciated that she didn't try to get "preachy" - it reads like a diary of how she felt at different times during the process, which may be at odds with what she felt the week before. One caveat: the diary-style writing was a little bit jolting to get used to at first. She writes in really short, disjointed chapters, so she might recount an incident in chapter 1, remember a dream she had when she was 10 in chapter two, give her thoughts on a newspaper article in chapter 3, etc. It's a style that's totally new to me.

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