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This is big : how the founder of weight watchers changed the world -- and me / Marisa Meltzer.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Little, Brown and Company, 2020Edition: First editionDescription: xi, 290 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 031641400X
  • 9780316414005
Other title:
  • How the founder of weight watchers changed the world -- and me
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Contents:
I was even a fat child -- Is there a typical fat girl? -- Fat is just who I am -- Sharing is on a voluntary basis -- We all want miracles -- When I fall, I fall hard -- What is her secret? -- What does being thin mean? -- The message is, I'm one of you -- She'd had enough after one bite -- Thin power -- You're visiting the dark side -- I'm a pusher -- They'll all be gone by Valentine's Day -- Living off the fat of the land -- He broke the social contract -- Eat, eat -- but not too much -- Healthy busywork -- Yes, she's still thin -- An inherent distrust of gurus -- But I'm in control of the fork -- This tastes sad -- Losing weight can be magic -- That's progress for me.
Summary: Marisa Meltzer began her first diet at the age of five. Growing up an indoors-loving child in Northern California, she learned from an early age that weight was the one part of her life she could neither change nor even really understand. Fast forward nearly four decades. Marisa, also a contributor to the New Yorker and the New York Times, comes across an obituary for Jean Nidetch, the Queens, New York housewife who founded Weight Watchers in 1963. Weaving Jean's incredible story as weight loss maven and pathbreaking entrepreneur with Marisa's own journey through Weight Watchers, she chronicles the deep parallels, and enduring frustrations, in each woman's decades-long efforts to lose weight and keep it off. The result is funny, unexpected, and unforgettable: a testament to how transformation goes far beyond a number on the scale.
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Biography Meltzer, M. M528 Available 33111009639614
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

From a contributor to The Cut , one of Vogue' s most anticipated books "bravely and honestly" (Busy Philipps) talks about weight loss and sheds a light on Weight Watchers founder Jean Nidetch: "a triumphant chronicle" ( New York Times ).



Marisa Meltzer began her first diet at the age of five. Growing up an indoors-loving child in Northern California, she learned from an early age that weight was the one part of her life she could neither change nor even really understand.



Fast forward nearly four decades. Marisa, also a contributor to the New Yorker and the New York Times , comes across an obituary for Jean Nidetch, the Queens, New York housewife who founded Weight Watchers in 1963. Weaving Jean's incredible story as weight loss maven and pathbreaking entrepreneur with Marisa's own journey through Weight Watchers, she chronicles the deep parallels, and enduring frustrations, in each woman's decades-long efforts to lose weight and keep it off. The result is funny, unexpected, and unforgettable: a testament to how transformation goes far beyond a number on the scale.

Marisa Meltzer began her first diet at the age of five. Growing up an indoors-loving child in Northern California, she learned from an early age that weight was the one part of her life she could neither change nor even really understand. Fast forward nearly four decades. Marisa, also a contributor to the New Yorker and the New York Times, comes across an obituary for Jean Nidetch, the Queens, New York housewife who founded Weight Watchers in 1963. Weaving Jean's incredible story as weight loss maven and pathbreaking entrepreneur with Marisa's own journey through Weight Watchers, she chronicles the deep parallels, and enduring frustrations, in each woman's decades-long efforts to lose weight and keep it off. The result is funny, unexpected, and unforgettable: a testament to how transformation goes far beyond a number on the scale.

I was even a fat child -- Is there a typical fat girl? -- Fat is just who I am -- Sharing is on a voluntary basis -- We all want miracles -- When I fall, I fall hard -- What is her secret? -- What does being thin mean? -- The message is, I'm one of you -- She'd had enough after one bite -- Thin power -- You're visiting the dark side -- I'm a pusher -- They'll all be gone by Valentine's Day -- Living off the fat of the land -- He broke the social contract -- Eat, eat -- but not too much -- Healthy busywork -- Yes, she's still thin -- An inherent distrust of gurus -- But I'm in control of the fork -- This tastes sad -- Losing weight can be magic -- That's progress for me.

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