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019			_a1083130632
020			_a1501111612 _q(hardback)
020			_a9781501111617 _q(hardback)
035			_a(OCoLC)1039355912 _z(OCoLC)1083130632
092			_a616.398 _bT659
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aTomlinson, Tommy, _eauthor. _9383229
245	1	4	_aThe elephant in the room : _bone fat man's quest to get smaller in a growing America / _cTommy Tomlinson.
250			_aFirst Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bSimon & Schuster, _c2019.
264		4	_c©2019
300			_aviii, 244 pages ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
505	0		_aPrologue: killing the hog -- A chocolate milk carton of love -- The cost of free Domino's -- The best bad roast beef sandwich -- Grease is the word -- A body at rest -- The American weigh -- Accommodations -- Honesty is such a lonely word -- The invisible wall -- The man who walks inside me -- Usuck-fm -- December/life's work -- Epilogue.
520			_a"So begins The Elephant in the Room, Tommy Tomlinson's remarkably intimate and insightful memoir of his life as a fat man. When he was almost fifty years old, Tomlinson weighed an astonishing--and dangerous--460 pounds, at risk for heart disease, diabetes, and stroke, unable to climb a flight of stairs without having to catch his breath, or travel on an airplane without buying two seats. Raised in a family that loved food, he had been aware of the problem for years, seeing doctors and trying diets from the time he was a preteen. But nothing worked, and every time he tried to make a change, it didn't go the way he planned--in fact, he wasn't sure that he really wanted to change. In The Elephant in the Room, Tomlinson chronicles his lifelong battle with weight in a voice that combines the urgency of Roxane Gay's Hunger with the intimacy of Rick Bragg's All Over but the Shoutin'. He also hits the road to meet other members of the plus-sized tribe in an attempt to understand how, as a nation, we got to this point. From buying a FitBit and setting exercise goals to contemplating the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas, America's "capital of food porn," and modifying his own diet, Tomlinson brings us along on a candid and sometimes brutal look at the everyday experience of being constantly aware of your size. Over the course of the book, he confronts these issues head-on and chronicles the practical steps he has to take--big and small--to lose weight by the end. Affecting and searingly honest, The Elephant in the Room is a powerful memoir that will resonate with anyone who has grappled with addiction, shame, or self-consciousness. It is also a literary triumph that will stay with readers long after the last page."--Pages [2-3] of cover.
600	1	0	_aTomlinson, Tommy. _9383229
650		0	_aObesity _xSocial aspects. _9103143
650		0	_aObesity _vPopular works. _9388306
650		0	_aBody image. _944355
650		0	_aLifestyles _xHealth aspects. _9219326
650		0	_aHabit breaking. _92603
994			_aC0 _bNFG
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