Half-Assed : A Weight-Loss Memoir (Paperback)

from sonyau

The author is clearly funny and has plenty of personal insights. Her writing style is brisk and witty. There were a few structural problems--often a point would be raised, then the subject would change abruptly, and at times, the timeline was convoluted. The book would have benefited from more "h...

from mstrust

Fulda had been a chubby child, an obese teenager and a morbidly obese young adult. At almost 400lbs. by her early twenties, she couldn't stand for more than five minutes, she had outgrown even the plus size clothing stores and she'd never had a boyfriend. When her doctor brought up her weight, of...

from lahochstetler

Jenette Fulda lost more than half her body weight- 200 pounds, and this is her memoir of so doing. The memoir deals not just with the day-to-day trials of weight loss, but also with the various emotional and social issues she faced, as overweight woman and as a woman who transitioned to a slimmer...

from sonyau

The author is clearly funny and has plenty of personal insights. Her writing style is brisk and witty. There were a few structural problems--often a point would be raised, then the subject would change abruptly, and at times, the timeline was convoluted. The book would have benefited from more "h...

from meditatinglibrarian

Good sense of humor. This is more a biography than a self-help sort of book.