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A review by bookapotamus
Waisted by Randy Susan Meyers
4.0
Raise your hand if you've made a New Year's Resolution to lose weight. To eat better. To exercise more? If you've cried in a dressing room trying on a bathing suit, or while attempting to squeeze into those favorite jeans from high school. If you've ordered the salad, but really wanted the burger, or have looked at another woman and wished you looked like them or had their confidence...
Are there any women who are NOT raising their hand right now? I'm fairly confident there are few.
Waisted is truly a heartbreaking, eye opening and extremely relatable story, Whether you want to lose 5 or 50 pounds, or just want to feel better about yourself and how you look - we've all been there. And for Alice and Daphne - both accomplished and amazing women - they are both held back by their weight and those dreaded numbers on the scale. They decide to enroll in a reality show slash documentary - similar to a Biggest Loser type show - but soon find themselves in a cruel and humiliating experiment - where they need to decide: How far is too far?
I cried with these women. I laughed with them. I rooted them all throughout the whole journey. It's a tough world out there for women and I wish everyone would read this book. Those extra pounds are the most visible burden of some women - but what is invisible in what goes on inside - the hurt and anger, the obsession over the numbers and the counting, the fear, desperation and instability... I wanted to reach in the story and wrap up Alice and Daphne and the other contestants in a huge hug and let them know they are more than just a number. A brilliant story.
Are there any women who are NOT raising their hand right now? I'm fairly confident there are few.
Waisted is truly a heartbreaking, eye opening and extremely relatable story, Whether you want to lose 5 or 50 pounds, or just want to feel better about yourself and how you look - we've all been there. And for Alice and Daphne - both accomplished and amazing women - they are both held back by their weight and those dreaded numbers on the scale. They decide to enroll in a reality show slash documentary - similar to a Biggest Loser type show - but soon find themselves in a cruel and humiliating experiment - where they need to decide: How far is too far?
I cried with these women. I laughed with them. I rooted them all throughout the whole journey. It's a tough world out there for women and I wish everyone would read this book. Those extra pounds are the most visible burden of some women - but what is invisible in what goes on inside - the hurt and anger, the obsession over the numbers and the counting, the fear, desperation and instability... I wanted to reach in the story and wrap up Alice and Daphne and the other contestants in a huge hug and let them know they are more than just a number. A brilliant story.