The Incredible Shrinking Critic: My Excellent Adventure in Weight Loss: 75 Pounds and Counting.. Paperback - 2007
by Bernard, Jami
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Every extra pound tells a story . . . At five four and 230 pounds, film critic Jami Bernard took the plunge into what she half-jokingly calls "the heart of darkness"- her innermost self, where, by confronting a past both funny and painful, she was able to let go of those pounds, one by one, week after week. At the end of this intensely personal, bitterly humorous journey, she had lost seventy-five of them.
Jami chronicled her weight loss in the New York Daily News, where she was a film critic for thirteen years. This book goes behind the scenes to tell the unvarnished truth of what it's like to live large in a body-obsessed culture that takes no prisoners. Here is the reality of weight loss: a stock-market chart of crazy gains and losses, a crumb trail of doomed relationships, the terrors of pleasure, and the best pizza this side of Naples. With a sharp wit and the confident, easy style that makes her a nationally known critic and champion of women's issues, Jami candidly explores the secret world of fat people-their fears, bodies, clothing; their forbidden love affair with food; and what it's like to leave that all behind and emerge thin again on the other side.
Moving, sometimes shocking, and always mordantly funny, The Incredible Shrinking Critic takes it all off-seventy-five pounds and counting.
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- Title The Incredible Shrinking Critic: My Excellent Adventure in Weight Loss: 75 Pounds and Counting..
- Author Bernard, Jami
- Binding Paperback
- Condition New
- Pages 286
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Avery
- Date 2007-09-20
- Illustrated Yes
- Bookseller's Inventory # Q-1583332847
- ISBN 9781583332849 / 1583332847
- Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 8.96 x 6.06 x 0.79 in (22.76 x 15.39 x 2.01 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Dewey Decimal Code B