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The Weight-Loss Diaries

by Courtney Rubin

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From Shape magazine's popular "Weight-Loss Diary" columnist comes a hilarious, sometimes heartwrenching look at the daily struggle of dieting In this frank and funny book, Courtney Rubin shares what she learned about dieting--and herself--in more than two years of chronicling her battle to keep food from consuming her life. As engaging as her famous column, The Weight-Loss Diaries is part memoir, part how-to, and always entertaining. An honest and brave account of what it feels like, day in and day out, often year in and year out, to try to lose a significant amount of weight, The Weight-Loss Diaries is: An unashamed tale of binges, fashion fiascos, setbacks, and ultimate success A light-hearted, laugh-out-loud look at the most ridiculous excuses for ending or cheating on a diet A no-holds-barred account of the author's dark days of flirting with eating disorders and constantly calculating and recalculating calories With insight, humor, and courage, Rubin explores diet and food issues, as well as her self-sabotaging habits during dieting, in ways that everyone struggling with weight loss will find both instructive and inspiring.… (more)
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I liked this very real struggle with weight loss amid the pressures of American thinness and especially the media. Felt Courtney was very real in addressing the other struggles in life and how they related to her desire to loss weight. Life doesn't have a happy ending all the time and women need to realise the role the other stuff plays. ( )
  skinglist | Jun 13, 2009 |
She writes well and although I have never binged I could relate to so much. Agree with other reviewer that the ending is disappointing. I still find it difficult to believe that someone can run marathons and still have a weight problem. Bit depressing for the rest of us who think we deserve a glass of wine after 10 minutes on an exercise cycle. ( )
  mumoftheanimals | Jun 14, 2008 |
An honest account of dealing with emotional eating, weight gain and the struggle to get to a healthy weight.
I was frustrated by the ending, as I didn't feel the author had progressed very far in dealing with the reasons she was binge eating. ( )
  mair | Jun 20, 2006 |
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From Shape magazine's popular "Weight-Loss Diary" columnist comes a hilarious, sometimes heartwrenching look at the daily struggle of dieting In this frank and funny book, Courtney Rubin shares what she learned about dieting--and herself--in more than two years of chronicling her battle to keep food from consuming her life. As engaging as her famous column, The Weight-Loss Diaries is part memoir, part how-to, and always entertaining. An honest and brave account of what it feels like, day in and day out, often year in and year out, to try to lose a significant amount of weight, The Weight-Loss Diaries is: An unashamed tale of binges, fashion fiascos, setbacks, and ultimate success A light-hearted, laugh-out-loud look at the most ridiculous excuses for ending or cheating on a diet A no-holds-barred account of the author's dark days of flirting with eating disorders and constantly calculating and recalculating calories With insight, humor, and courage, Rubin explores diet and food issues, as well as her self-sabotaging habits during dieting, in ways that everyone struggling with weight loss will find both instructive and inspiring.

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