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A review by glassesgirl79
Secrets of a Former Fat Girl: How to Lose Two, Four (or More!) Dress Sizes--And Find Yourself Along the Way by Lisa Delaney
3.0
“Secrets of a former fat girl” serves as part memoir and part self help guide for women who want to face an unhealthy relationship with food head on, lose weight, and change her life both personally and professionally.
The author, Lisa Delaney, begins the book with an introduction in which she shares her own unhealthy relationship with food, feelings of unworthiness, the turning point that she experienced that led her to beginning exercising and eventually creating a healthy relationship with food as well as losing weight and becoming a more confident person overall.
Each chapter focuses on a specific secret to becoming a former fat girl and are as follows: 1) forget dieting, 2) keep it a secret, 3) adopt INO (it’s not an option,) 4)see yourself slim, 5) remember, you are not like other people, 6) protect yourself from the pushers, and 7) happiness lives in the uncomfort zone. Through each chapter, the author provides tips as well as personal experiences as a former fat girl and how she lives each of the secrets.
By sharing her seven secrets, Delaney aims to motivate and encourage the reader to take small steps to create big change. Through each of Delaney’s secrets, while some of her advice is sound, I felt that some advice she gives might not work for all women. I especially appreciated that the author on exercising and moving one’s body first versus starting with the eating component. Overall, this book focuses on women learning to put themselves first in order to become a healthier person living a fulfilling life.
I enjoyed this book and her story really resonated with me. Each of the seven secrets introduced me to ideas I hadn’t thought of before and I plan to use some of the techniques and resources she mentioned in the book to help me on my own journey to a healthier relationship with food.
While the book was informative and humorous at this, my main annoyance with this book is the insertion of sidebar boxes in odd places throughout the book. By having sidebar boxes in the middle of the book chapter, it slowed down the reading momentum of the book and personally, I would have preferred the sidebar boxes to have been moved the the end of each book chapter for better reading flow.
The author, Lisa Delaney, begins the book with an introduction in which she shares her own unhealthy relationship with food, feelings of unworthiness, the turning point that she experienced that led her to beginning exercising and eventually creating a healthy relationship with food as well as losing weight and becoming a more confident person overall.
Each chapter focuses on a specific secret to becoming a former fat girl and are as follows: 1) forget dieting, 2) keep it a secret, 3) adopt INO (it’s not an option,) 4)see yourself slim, 5) remember, you are not like other people, 6) protect yourself from the pushers, and 7) happiness lives in the uncomfort zone. Through each chapter, the author provides tips as well as personal experiences as a former fat girl and how she lives each of the secrets.
By sharing her seven secrets, Delaney aims to motivate and encourage the reader to take small steps to create big change. Through each of Delaney’s secrets, while some of her advice is sound, I felt that some advice she gives might not work for all women. I especially appreciated that the author on exercising and moving one’s body first versus starting with the eating component. Overall, this book focuses on women learning to put themselves first in order to become a healthier person living a fulfilling life.
I enjoyed this book and her story really resonated with me. Each of the seven secrets introduced me to ideas I hadn’t thought of before and I plan to use some of the techniques and resources she mentioned in the book to help me on my own journey to a healthier relationship with food.
While the book was informative and humorous at this, my main annoyance with this book is the insertion of sidebar boxes in odd places throughout the book. By having sidebar boxes in the middle of the book chapter, it slowed down the reading momentum of the book and personally, I would have preferred the sidebar boxes to have been moved the the end of each book chapter for better reading flow.