Hungry for More: A Keeping-it-Real Guide for Black Women on Weight and Body Image [Paperback] Review

Robyn McGee's HUNGRY FOR MORE is a guide to help African-American women make informed choices when deciding to live healthy and lose weight.Ms. McGee's book begins by telling readers about her sister, Cathy, who underwent gastric bypass surgery, but whose heart wasn't strong enough for this type of surgery and she died trying to find a quick and surefire method to lose weight.Cathy is one of many African-American women who are opting to have gastric bypass after many years of yo-yo dieting and trying everything imaginable to lose weight.Ms. McGee advocates losing weight in a slow manner with changes in eating habits, behavioral modification and exercise.She wants to give African-American women and women of color options for long-term weight loss and this book is a testament for her sister.

With nine chapters, an introduction, forward and afterword, the author covers many phases on living healthy and weight loss.In Chapter Two, "From the Motherland to Mickey D's", discusses how African-Americans have gradually become obese over time, especially in a culture of sedentary life.Chapter Four, "Digging Our Graves With Our Forks", examines the ways depression, racism and sexual abuse have contributed to obesity and how important dealing with these issues can change the continuum. And the final chapter, "Generation Triple XL", looks at the overweight problems of African-American children. Although I only highlighted a few of the chapters, this book has a wealth of usable information.

HUNGRY FOR MORE is informative and gives us the history of obesity in the African-American community as well as statistical information to validate the author's findings.With several case studies, she is able to convey her information from an individual and emotional standpoint.She makes her findings easily relatable and the options are fully explained.She also includes other reading materials to review as well as movies that feature each topic she explains in her book.One message made very clear in this book is that readers must learn to love themselves and they are more than just a number on a scale.Even if you choose or gastric bypass is your only option, this book gives you enough information for you to research this surgery so you know enough to ask the right questions and make an educated and informed decision. However, she offers so much more in ways of losing and maintaining weight loss that can easily be incorporated into anyone's lifestyle, if that is what he or she wants to do.

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Blending kitchen table wisdom and her own experience in losing her sister to gastric bypass surgery, author Robyn McGee explores the historical and cultural roots of obesity among black women, offering practical guidelines to weight loss and living a more healthy and balanced life.
Though she advocates a slow and steady approach to weight loss under a doctor's supervision and a commitment to exercise, healthy eating, support groups, and therapy, she also understands that many black women, like her sister, will still choose the option of gastric bypass surgery despite the fact that 1 in 200 patients die from the surgeries.
McGee argues that a range of factors often lead to obesity in black women, including the problem of fat acceptance in the black community, historically negative images of black women, compulsive bingeing and purging, childhood sexual abuse, and a lack of attention to black women in the medical community.
With the memory of her sister's lifelong struggle with weight firmly in mind, McGee conveys to readers the importance of honoring themselves by making healthy choices, starting slow and being patient, seeking help when they need it, and finally, remembering that they are much more than a number on a scale.

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Losing It: False Hopes and Fat Profits in the Diet Industry [Paperback] Review

This book offers a refreshing change for people, especially women whose lives have been misdirected and for many ruined by the preoccupation with body image.Ms. Fraser has done an indepth research of the diet industry,examined the false claims, and explored the likelihood for permanent changeafter someone has lost weight by using a diet. This book promotes theidea that women should feel good about themselves and embrace theirindividuality.She stresses doing the best for yourself in your presentself, take care of your self both physically and emotionally. I recommendthat this book be read by women and girls whose lives have been misdirectedby being taught that they only matter as far as what others think of howthey look and not for who they are.

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A reformed dieter and an exbulimic, Laura Fraser traces our fixation with thinness to the images that began appearing a hundred years ago in magazines likeLadies Home Journal and Cosmopolitan.Fraser chronicles the corresponding growth of a $50 billion a year industry that provides false hope in exchange for cash.In this meticulously researched journey through Dietland, Fraser gives the inside scoop on:
Diet drugs, including the controversial phen/fen
Diet gurus Richard Simmons, Susan Powter, and Dean Ornish
Commercial weight loss centers, including Jenny Craig and WeightWatchers
Weightloss products like thigh creams and diet cookies
Provocative, political, and personal, this revealing book is a remarkable work of investigative journalism and an enthralling, compelling story with almost universal relevance.
The hardcover edition of Losing Itreceived major television coverage, including appearances on "NBC Nightly News," the "Today" show, "Home and Family," and "Good Day New York."Excerpts of Losing It and related articles by Laura Fraser appeared in Mirabella, Vogue, Glamour, Fitness, Good Housekeeping, Self, Mademoiselle, and Health.

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The Weight-Loss Diaries [Paperback] Review

I couldn't put this book down. The people who left bad reviews apparently have no clue what it is to battle an eating disorder.
The words like "stop blaming your parents and just take responsibility and stop eating" make me realize that:
a) Lots of people have no clue that our behaviors come from our parents.
b) It's easy to say "stop eating".... It's like telling a drug addict to stop doing drugs.
c) Yes, for us ( people with eating disorders, who were taught to always be good and given high, very high standards to follow)food IS a drug of choice. We couldn't show up at home drunk nor stoned for the fear of our parents, but we definitely could show up full of food.
Well, take it as it is. I loved the book. This book made me take a look at myself from the side. Yes, this book made changes in my life and NO, it didn't make me think that i am free to eat or do what i want and don't have take responsibility for my actions.

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From Shape magazine's popular "Weight-Loss Diary" columnist comes a hilarious, sometimes heartwrenching look at the daily struggle of dieting
In this frank and funny book, Courtney Rubin shares what she learned about dieting--and herself--in more than two years of chronicling her battle to keep food from consuming her life. As engaging as her famous column, The Weight-Loss Diaries is part memoir, part how-to, and always entertaining.
An honest and brave account of what it feels like, day in and day out, often year in and year out, to try to lose a significant amount of weight, The Weight-Loss Diaries is:

An unashamed tale of binges, fashion fiascos, setbacks, and ultimate success
A light-hearted, laugh-out-loud look at the most ridiculous excuses for ending or cheating on a diet
A no-holds-barred account of the author's dark days of flirting with eating disorders and constantly calculating and recalculating calories

With insight, humor, and courage, Rubin explores diet and food issues, as well as her self-sabotaging habits during dieting, in ways that everyone struggling with weight loss will find both instructive and inspiring.
Courtney Rubin has written for the New York Times, Marie Claire, Time, and other publications. For two years, she wrote the "Weight-Loss Diary" column for Shape magazine. Formerly a senior writer at Washingtonian magazine, Rubin is now a correspondent based in London for People.

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