The Incredible Shrinking Critic My Excellent Adventure in Weight Loss: 75 Pounds and Counting...

by Bernard, Jami

• ISBN13: 9781583332849
• ISBN10: 1583332847
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-09-20
• Publisher: Avery

Summary

Every extra pound tells a story . . .At five four and 230 pounds, film critic Jami Bernard took the plunge into what she half-jokingly calls "the heart of darkness"- her innermost self, where, by confronting a past both funny and painful, she was able to let go of those pounds, one by one, week after week. At the end of this intensely personal, bitterly humorous journey, she had lost seventy-five of them. Jami chronicled her weight loss in the New York Daily News, where she was a film critic for thirteen years. This book goes behind the scenes to tell the unvarnished truth of what it's like to live large in a body-obsessed culture that takes no prisoners. Here is the reality of weight loss: a stock-market chart of crazy gains and losses, a crumb trail of doomed relationships, the terrors of pleasure, and the best pizza this side of Naples. With a sharp wit and the confident, easy style that makes her a nationally known critic and champion of women's issues, Jami candidly explores the secret world of fat people-their fears, bodies, clothing; their forbidden love affair with food; and what it's like to leave that all behind and emerge thin again on the other side. Moving, sometimes shocking, and always mordantly funny, The Incredible Shrinking Critictakes it all off-seventy-five pounds and counting.

Author Biography

Jami Bernard is an award-winning film critic who lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

Preface: Pizza for Life	p. xiii
75 Pounds
Hopping the Kettle	p. 3
The First 10: The Mirror Crack'd	p. 19
20 Pounds: The Shop Around the Corner	p. 34
30 Pounds: My Body, Myself	p. 47
40 Pounds: Unwise, Better, Best	p. 67
50 Pounds: Sexual Healing	p. 87
60 Pounds: Downsizing	p. 102
62 Pounds: Three Little Eggs	p. 112
Relapse	p. 116
70 Pounds: What I Ate	p. 144
75 Pounds: Holding the Puppy	p. 161
The Knack, and How to Get It
Ready...or Not	p. 173
Who's Your Daddy?	p. 182
Food	p. 205
Exercise	p. 227
Behavior	p. 242
Cheat Sheet	p. 270
Getting Started Flow Chart	p. 272
Acknowledgments	p. 273
Index	p. 277
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