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Title: Self-Esteem Comes in All Sizes: How to Be Happy and Healthy at Your Natural Weight, Revised Edition by Carol A. Johnson, Gary Foster, Gary D. Foster, M.A., Carol A. Johnson ISBN: 0-936077-37-9 Publisher: Gurze Books Pub. Date: 09 June, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.43 (21 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: RIGHT ON TARGET
Comment: I thought the book was excellent. Is it too much to believe that not all fat people gorge themselves all day? I am a fat person struggling with anorexia. I damaged my metabolism from dieting and severe starvation. I've been tube-fed and hospitalized. I finally went to a treatment center and it saved my life. I still struggle daily. I DO NOT eat in fast food places. I have seen plenty of thin people in the window at McDonalds. I have several thin friends who can eat 2 Quarter Pounders. I can't even eat half of one, yet I'm twice their size. I exercise daily and do not eat junk food because I don't want to put that into my body. Yet I am fat. My blood pressure is 120/60. My pulse is 60. My cholesterol is 135. My blood sugars are normal. I am fit and fat. I do not eat all day. I have breakfast and lunch. Dinner is still too hard. This book helped me see that I am OK at this weight. I am lucky that I have a doctor who agrees that size has very little to do with how much a person eats. Yes, obesity rates are at an all time high, yet people are living longer and healthier lives. Deaths from heart attacks are down. HMMM? We're fatter, yet we're living longer? Think about it. Carol is an inspiration to everyone. Live your life, take care of yourself, and don't pay any attention to the people who are jealous because they're always miserable on their diets, yet they don't seem to lose weight. Be happy. You can be healthy and large. I am proof. Carol is proof. A lot of people are. Pay attention. We don't all eat all day. That's a myth. I know a lot of skinny people who eat all day. Are they bad? Most of them eat more than me. When I want to feel better about myself and get some inspiration, I will read Carol's book. Get off or your diets that make you cranky and miserable to be around. I am tired of hearing about your latest diet, how it doesn't work, seeing you stuff yourself because you've deprived yourself by dieting. Shut up! Get a life! When you're dead, your family won't remark on how wonderful you looked, or how thin you were. You are more than what you weigh. Use the energy that you devote to dieting in more constructive ways. Eat normal, healthy meals and move every day. Most people are not familiar with the data on fat and health. It doesn't get publicized because it isn't funded by the diet industry. They want you to believe that being fat is unhealthy so they can keep you coming in for their bogus diets that don't work. Thank you, Carol, for your wonderful and enlightening book. I have bought several copies for friends and realtives. I will go out and buy more and give them to my dieting friends in hopes that they'll see the light. Peace.
Rating: 5
Summary: Being happy is an important part of being healthy
Comment: _Self-Esteem Comes In All Sizes_ is one of my favorite self-help books of all time. In fact, I've gone back and read it more than once.
For those who think this might be a book about "giving up on yourself," be aware that there's nothing here that says we shouldn't take care of our health, enhance our looks, or be aware of what we eat; quite the contrary, it's all about how to have a healthy--and happy--lifestyle, including normal eating and exercise. The author reminds us, however, that in our current culture, being fat isn't regarded simply as a health or even an aesthetic problem, it's viewed as "sin." To compare weight with other health issues, she asks, "Would I have let the number that represents my blood pressure dictate my worthiness as a person?"
In response to the way women beat ourselves up about our appearance and use our feelings about how we look as a reason for self-hatred and emotional paralysis, Johnson urges us to remember that "your beauty also comes from your zest for life, your fun-loving spirit, a smile that lights up your face, your compassion for others..." Many women's lives are so consumed by their obession with weight that they put their lives on hold. "The anxiety it breeds fills the mind to overflowing and washes away any ambition that is not related to losing weight."
She points out that one of the foremost authorities on eating disorders, Hilde Bruch, said, "There is a great deal of talk about the weakness and self-indulgence of overweight people who eat 'too much.' Very little is said about the selfishness and self-indulgence involved in a life which makes one's appareance the center of all values."
_Self-Esteem Comes In All Sizes_ emphasizes that we need to be proud of our differences. She wonders "why should a tulip aspire to be a rose?" and one of the members of her Largely Positive support groups reminds us: "God made both St. Bernards and Chihuahas."
This is a book that encourages its readers to commend themselves for their good health decisions every day, and think of each positive step as a "bonus" rather than focusing on our deficits.
Rating: 5
Summary: A life changing book!
Comment: I put off buying this book for a long time for whatever reason, but am so glad i finally did! This is a life-changing book. For those of us who struggle with weight and everything that goes with it, this book is for us. It reminds us that there is more to life than what size we are and has some really good resources of where to find clothing, shoes, etc. I highly recommend this book. It is right up there with Hirschman and Munter's book, Overcoming Overeating and When Women Stop Hating Their Bodies. This is a keeper!
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Title: Just the Weigh You Are : How to Be Fit and Healthy, Whatever Your Size by Linda Konner, Steven Jonas ISBN: 0395935237 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 10 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Body Image Workbook: An 8-Step Program for Learning to Like Your Looks by Thomas F. Cash, Ph.D. ISBN: 1572240628 Publisher: New Harbinger Pubns Pub. Date: May, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Bountiful Women: Large Women's Secrets for Living the Life They Desire by Bonnie Bernell, Carmen Renee Berry ISBN: 1885171471 Publisher: Wildcat Canyon Press Pub. Date: 31 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: When Women Stop Hating Their Bodies : Freeing Yourself from Food and Weight Obsession by Jane R. Hirschmann ISBN: 044991058X Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 30 December, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: 200 Ways to Love the Body You Have by Marcia Germaine Hutchinson ISBN: 0895949997 Publisher: Crossing Press Pub. Date: March, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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