- Paperback: 1 pages
- Publisher: Bloomsbury US; Reprint edition (Feb 15 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1582345538
- ISBN-13: 978-1582345536
- Product Dimensions: 21 x 14.1 x 2.1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 363 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #337,073 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
This send-up of the thin-is-in mentality is funny enough to make even diehard dieters consider replacing their baby carrots with Krispy Kremes. Shanker, one of Us Weekly's Fashion Police commentators and a self-proclaimed fat girl, estimates she's spent 16 years trying to lose weight: "I've met with seven weight loss specialists, worked with three nutritionists and three personal trainers, tried a dozen weight loss programs, taken thousands of pills, joined six gyms, read thirty-one books and spent enough money on weight loss to buy myself an Ivy League degree." Out of this context, Shanker takes on the media, corporate America and even the medical establishment, arguing with their belief that it's impossible to be both fit and fat. "Let's take the focus off 'fat' and put it on health," she lectures. "Let's take the focus off 'skinny' and put it on good common sense. Let's take the focus off body image and put it on education, women's rights, human rights, the economy, baseball cards, anything." Although Shanker's opinions on full-figured fashion and feminist philosophy are entertaining, she's at her best writing about her stint at Duke Diet and Fitness Center, one of the country's oldest and most successful weight management centers. As her optimism about the hardcore Duke University Medical School program flags, her diary of adventures becomes increasingly irreverent, refreshing and human. Anyone who has ever tried to lose a pound will gain confidence and a sense of humor from Shanker's story.
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Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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"This frank and funny look at living large ... will resonate with any woman who has obsessed over her body image (and who hasn't?)." -- Chicago Sun-Times
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5.0 out of 5 stars
It's not about being funny,
By Babs "80's child !" (Santiago, Chile :) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Fat Girl's Guide To Life (Hardcover)
I am a reader from Santiago, Chile. (Southamerica, for the ones who have a question mark on your faces :)I've been reading the other reviews and my question is: Who on God's green earth would read this book because it's funny??? If you want a funny book, read a book with jokes, but this is most definitely NOT a book to laugh AT...there are some funny situations, but don't treat it like a "funny book". It shows disrespect to the author and to all people who see ourselves pictured in this book. After making my point clear, I have to say it is a great book! I myself am going through a "discovering myself" jorney, and this book has helped me getting to the core of my behavior; I haven't even finished it, and I already find it inspiring, not to "stop taking care of myself" or to think that being overweight is healthy, but to learn to feel good with myself, just the way I am. For all you people who think this books aims to make people want to be fat & unhealthy, I tell you, it is actually ALL THE WAY AROUND. I am "overweight" or in Wendy's words, a "fat chick" and this book has nothing but help me love myself a little bit; I still want to lose some weight, but with my feet more "on the ground"...see the difference? And like someone said, discriminating people for being fat, is just another type of racism...which speaks REALLY badly about us, 21st century people...don't you think? Wendy, whatever you write, I'll be happy to read it! thanks for being so courageous and brave, to show the world who you really are and how proud you are of it! Hope I can be like you someday! And I whish everybody were like that...it would be a much nicer world. :)
4.0 out of 5 stars
Devour This Book!,
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This review is from: The Fat Girl's Guide To Life (Hardcover)
Nicely Written.Good humor. A great joy to read for thin or fat. Her mind is like going into my head. Back and forth. One day it's ok, the next day, no. Wendy is very real. A joy!
5.0 out of 5 stars
Big Fat BRAVA for Wendy Shanker!,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Fat Girl's Guide To Life (Hardcover)
Wendy Shanker defends and celebrates being fat - and fit - with such style and insight. Never flip or glib or emptily rah-rah, she backs up all of her assertions with thorough research and thoughtfully described personal experience. Also, she is funny. REALLY funny. While this book says everything that needs to be said about this country's evil diet industry and thin fetish, heck, I'd read anything Wendy Shanker writes.
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