Good Girls Do Swallow
by Rachael Oakes-Ash
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This book is the sometimes shocking, often blackly funny story of her rollercoaster ride through anorexia, bulimia, bulimarexia, gym-obsession and, finally, recovery. This book is the sometimes shocking, often blackly funny story of her rollercoaster ride through anorexia, bulimia, bulimarexia, gym-obsession and, finally, recovery. Between the ages of 17 and 30, Rachael Oakes-Ash lost 60kg (10 stone) and gained 72kg (12 stone). As the title indicates, it's a book packed with attitude. show more Rachael may be an extreme case, but almost every woman out there understands her obsession with food, her bad body image and the amount of wasted energy she put into both. Three-quarters of the women in Australia think they are too fat. Most of them are wrong. More than 95% of Australian women have dieted at some point, even though they probably know that dieting doesn't work as a way of losing weight and that it can have the exact opposite effect. This book is for all of those women. Unlike previous books on anorexia, bulimia, food obsession and bad body image, this is a very accessible story. Rachael doesn't spare herself - readers will learn why she dusted cigarette ash off food scraps in the bin and ate them, why she stole food from the retirement-home dwellers she was supposed to be visiting, and how a smart bulimic plans their operations. But the humour in the way she tells her story means that this is not a guilt-inducing 'heavy' read. It's stark and it's black but it is often very funny. show lessTags
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This is a great book, and well worth reading for anyone who has issues with dieting.
Rachael speaks candidly about how between the ages of 20 and 30, she managed to lose 60kg in weight, but unfortunately gained 76kg! She ran the whole gamut of eating disorders, involving anorexia, bulimia, bulimarexia, gym obsession, strict dieting and binge eating.
This book charts her story from the lowest points, to her recovery (including several false starts, where she felt that she was on the road to recovery, but it turned out that she wasn't).
She never lectures or tries to force her opinions upon the reader, and her tone is like that of a chatty friend, but despite this, some of the things she went through are hard to read.
I do have an interest in show more the current culture of obsession with body image and being thin, and this book was a fascinating read. show less
Rachael speaks candidly about how between the ages of 20 and 30, she managed to lose 60kg in weight, but unfortunately gained 76kg! She ran the whole gamut of eating disorders, involving anorexia, bulimia, bulimarexia, gym obsession, strict dieting and binge eating.
This book charts her story from the lowest points, to her recovery (including several false starts, where she felt that she was on the road to recovery, but it turned out that she wasn't).
She never lectures or tries to force her opinions upon the reader, and her tone is like that of a chatty friend, but despite this, some of the things she went through are hard to read.
I do have an interest in show more the current culture of obsession with body image and being thin, and this book was a fascinating read. show less
A bit funny, a bit serious. Gets preachy and love-your-body-blahblahblah at times, but other than that it's worth your time, especially if you're a bulimic.
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