Fatass No More! How I Lost Weight and Still Ate Cheeseburgers and Fries [Paperback]

While reading this book, I realized something. Because it is a personal account of one person's weight loss history, I realized that we all must find it within ourselves to lose the weight. No book, no pill or no doctor can really help us. The author goes into this a little and she's right when she says "if you're looking for an excuse not to lose weight, you will find it". That was my problem. I blamed my extra poundage on the media's intense facination with thinness and then on my genetics and then on the foods I ate and I could go on and on. The author's candid remarks in this area really made me sit up and say, "it's my fault I'm fat and it's my responsibility to do something about it."

Those are the reasons I am very much recommending this book. Though it's "short and sweet", it contains the information I needed to get up off my butt and lose the weight. I just started on the author's plan and I can already tell it's going to work this time. And it's going to work this time because I am going to make it happen. In the end, I now realize, it is up to me to make myself more healthy. This book helped me realize that and I thank the author for taking the time to write it.

Sure, the program is relatitevly easy and does seem to work--oddly enough, who would think that eating less could contribute to weight loss? But the real reason to read this book is the comments on the weight loss industry. I have to totally agree and say that the diet industry doesn't want any of us any thinner. If they did, wouldn't a few of their diets work?

All in all, this is a good book not only because the program can actually help people to lose weight, but because it might even open a few eyes and ears. Just thinking about all the things that conspire to make us eat more and more makes me sick. Therefore, I am very glad I read this book.