Half-Assed, A Weight-Loss Memoir

Dramatic, transforming weight loss fascinates me.

I admit it, I watch the TV show, The Bigger Loser. I don’t agree with the rapid weight loss that happens on the show (sometimes 10-20 pounds a week). Nonetheless, I’m hooked. I think it is interesting (physically, emotionally, sociologically, medically) to understand how and why people gain hundreds of pounds and then how they lose hundreds of pounds.

Jennette Fulda blogged about her amazing, at home weight loss on her popular blog, Pasta Queen. This month she released her first book Half-Assed: A Weight-Loss Memoir where she tells her complete story.

Jennette weighed 372 pounds when she began losing weight. She doesn’t say exactly which diet approach she used, although she lost the weight using only diet and exercise, no surgery! She says she loosely followed a diet of lean meats, whole grains, vegetables, fruits and eliminated the white flour and sugars. She had slips along the way and writes with humor and honesty as she lost over 200 pounds in two years. She “never got crazy” about following a diet and I enjoyed her insight and non-obsessive approach to eating.

Initially I wasn’t thinking of this book as a Healthy Discovery. I heard Jennette being interviewed on The Today Show . I added her book to my stack of leisure reading because I enjoy reading memoirs. Three quarters of the way through the book I realized this is definitely a Healthy Discovery. If you have a hard time staying committed to your weight loss goal, if losing weight frustrates and fails you, or if you’re curious how someone gains and then loses hundreds of pounds, I think you will like Half-Assed: A Weight-Loss Memoir; I certainly did!

Click here and watch Jennette lose 192 pounds in 7 seconds