By Daisy Dexter Dobbs
Buy new: $2.99
First tagged by Susan Bodendorfer
Customer tags: funny, chocoholic, plus size, inspirational, humor, health, compulsive overeater, motivational, memoir, fat, obesity, diet
Review & Description
If you're looking for a diet book promising you'll be skinny by the time you've finished reading it, you'll be disappointed in Daisy's Diet Chronicles. The good news is that you may find yourself a little thinner after burning off calories from laughter.
Daisy shares her dietary ranting and ravings. She bravely tells of the crazy woman inside her and the fixes she's gotten Daisy into. The author admits to being a big fat liar and sneakily trying to fool others as well as herself. She boldly reveals hugely embarrassing situations that would make lesser women cower. She examines the sheer ridiculousness of dieting because, seriously, if anyone diets long enough they can't avoid becoming stark raving mad.
And she offers you a seat on the wild merry-go-round of life as a yoyo dieter.
If you're a dieter, Daisy bets you'll be able to relate and will find yourself cringing in all the right parts. Along with laughter and maybe a few tears, she believes you'll also find some inspiration and motivation along the way.
Chapter headings:
Introduction: Seeing Life through Lucy's Eyes
1. The Crazy Woman Inside Me
2. Liar Liar, Pants on Fire
3. Angering the Gods of Chocolate
4. Fat Women and the Horror of Public Bathrooms
5. Bitchery and Bigotry at the Cosmetic Counter
6. The Cheesecake Incident
7. A Rare and Sudden Volcanic Water-Scalding Phenomenon
8. Confessions of a Closet Binge Eater
9. The Dastardly Horrors of Water Retention
10. You'll Find Size Twelve in the Lard Butt Section Ma'am
11. If Only I Could Yank Out those Dental Fillings
12. Forever Traumatized by the Evils of the Farmers Market
13. The Very Real Nightmare of Lungs, Liver and Powdered Milk
14. The Beef Fat Incident: A Bloody, Gristly Tale of Horror
15. Bye-Bye Belly Shelf!
16. Last Suppers and Weight Loss Fantasies
17. Me and my Super Amazing Diet Woman Cape
18. Chocolate Deprivation Responsible for thoughts of Gratuitous Violence
19. Be Nice to the People You Meet on the Way Up...
20. Soul-Deep Anger, Determination and Colossal Stupidity
21. Holiday Hysteria
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