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"One man's humorous and heartfelt journey through his year-long attempt to regain his health and change his life...Lovers of narrative nonfiction will relish this contagiously readable book that looks back at Ugel's complicated history with food, obesity, and the ruinous effects this lifelong relationship has had on him. Filled with humor, ultimately this is a book about the private hell of being fat in America and about the fragile male psyche and...
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A brutally honest memoir of life as an obese woman, the pain, humiliation...and hope Jennifer Joyner was slowly killing herself with food. She didn't know what to fear more: dying or knowing that she was causing her own death. She was powerless to stop. She weighed 336 pounds. She had uncontrolled diabetes and high blood pressure. She'd lost jobs and friendships, and her marriage was hanging by a thread. She disgusted herself. She couldn't even attempt...
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[2020]
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Why is today's diet industry pulling in 70 billion dollars every year, while when people go on a diet, only five percent of them succeed and the rest gain weight or stay the same? Here's why: A heavy, shamed body is a body with an unheard message and a thwarted quest, and until the secrets are unlocked and the wisdom is harvested, that impasse will be unbreachable. In these pages, Bedrick offers seventeen stories of individual women who open the door...
7) Weight loss confidential: how teens lose weight and keep it off-- and what they wish parents knew
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[2020]
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A motivational story from Australia that follows one mans incredible 60kg (132 pound) weight loss by living an intermittent fasting lifestyle that you can do too. Graeme Currie overcame a chronic sugar and fast-food addiction that had affected his entire adult life. Because he has actually lived through the highs and lows of a weight loss journey, his story is relatable and easily resonates with everyday men and women who are in a similar situation...
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