By Pearl Barley
Buy new: $2.99
First tagged by C. M. Donaldson
Customer tags: funny book(2), lifestyle(2), memoirs(2), humor(2), dieting(2), bridget jones(2), indie author(2), food(2), pearl barley(2), entertaining(2), weight loss
Review & Description
This is real life humour, and many individuals will understand the continual dilemmas in a tale that spans 25 years of yo-yo dieting - punishing and suffering for a cause and a battle that is never won.
I describe it as Bridget's Diary-esque (big knickers sadly appropriate) given my dry wit bordering on the ridiculous, with a spattering of sarcasm, moans, groans and self-pity thrown in, but also my way of looking at the sometimes funny side of serious aspects of ordinary life.
"I've lost weight hundreds of times; I just can't keep the weight off " is a familiar cry, and I have been striving to do just that since my teens. Now, in later years and still battling the bulge, I've put these dieting diary entries together and the fat bag title is a play on words that resonates throughout the whole book, which includes chapters entitled "This Little Piggie Went to Town", "Mind Over Platter", "Not All Menus Are Created Equal” and "Turkey, Trimmings & All The Stuffing"!
It might sound depressing but don't get me wrong; it's not a tale of woe - far from it. There are no quick-fixes, granted, but the truth is laid bare in the sheer enjoyment and entertainment factor that I have brought to life, and I wanted to put it out there that this is an issue wherein we've all "Been There, Done That, & Bulged Out of the Tee Shirt", in a world where all 'forbidden fruit' is just so "Finger-Lickin' Good" but as the old saying goes: "What Don't Kill Will Fatten"!
This is real life humour, and many individuals will understand the continual dilemmas in a tale that spans 25 years of yo-yo dieting - punishing and suffering for a cause and a battle that is never won.
I describe it as Bridget's Diary-esque (big knickers sadly appropriate) given my dry wit bordering on the ridiculous, with a spattering of sarcasm, moans, groans and self-pity thrown in, but also my way of looking at the sometimes funny side of serious aspects of ordinary life.
"I've lost weight hundreds of times; I just can't keep the weight off " is a familiar cry, and I have been striving to do just that since my teens. Now, in later years and still battling the bulge, I've put these dieting diary entries together and the fat bag title is a play on words that resonates throughout the whole book, which includes chapters entitled "This Little Piggie Went to Town", "Mind Over Platter", "Not All Menus Are Created Equal” and "Turkey, Trimmings & All The Stuffing"!
It might sound depressing but don't get me wrong; it's not a tale of woe - far from it. There are no quick-fixes, granted, but the truth is laid bare in the sheer enjoyment and entertainment factor that I have brought to life, and I wanted to put it out there that this is an issue wherein we've all "Been There, Done That, & Bulged Out of the Tee Shirt", in a world where all 'forbidden fruit' is just so "Finger-Lickin' Good" but as the old saying goes: "What Don't Kill Will Fatten"!
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