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I'm gonna steal this line from another review I just read: I wanted to like this book. I really did.
And don't get me wrong, there were parts I could really relate to--starting and stopping diets, getting derailed easily, looking for the next quick fix, *knowing* how dangerous it is to be overweight but not having the motivation to do anything about it, etc.
But her writing just got on my nerves. She was a little too mean at times, recycled a lot of her jokes, and filled her margins with unnecessary and sometimes annoying footnotes. And I could deal with that but what really got me was that a lot of her book was filler. For example, at one point, she goes thrift shopping with a few of her friends, and she spends about eight pages describing this experience, including how she's not a good driver and how her one friend is a perfectionist. Yet when she meets with her personal trainer, there's very little description about what she does. In fact, the only way she describes her personal training sessions is to say "OW OW OW OW OW OW!" and to tell us how wet her tee shirt is after each session. If this is a memoir about weight loss, I'd think that's a little more important than how she couldn't merge while driving or her friend's coffee habit. And to be completely honest, I was thisclose to just giving up on this book after the first few chapters, but I persevered since I heard such good things about it.
I guess if you like snark, maybe you'd enjoy this book. All I can say is that I'm glad I didn't pay for it.
And don't get me wrong, there were parts I could really relate to--starting and stopping diets, getting derailed easily, looking for the next quick fix, *knowing* how dangerous it is to be overweight but not having the motivation to do anything about it, etc.
But her writing just got on my nerves. She was a little too mean at times, recycled a lot of her jokes, and filled her margins with unnecessary and sometimes annoying footnotes. And I could deal with that but what really got me was that a lot of her book was filler. For example, at one point, she goes thrift shopping with a few of her friends, and she spends about eight pages describing this experience, including how she's not a good driver and how her one friend is a perfectionist. Yet when she meets with her personal trainer, there's very little description about what she does. In fact, the only way she describes her personal training sessions is to say "OW OW OW OW OW OW!" and to tell us how wet her tee shirt is after each session. If this is a memoir about weight loss, I'd think that's a little more important than how she couldn't merge while driving or her friend's coffee habit. And to be completely honest, I was thisclose to just giving up on this book after the first few chapters, but I persevered since I heard such good things about it.
I guess if you like snark, maybe you'd enjoy this book. All I can say is that I'm glad I didn't pay for it.