Big Girl: How I Gave Up Dieting and Got a Life
At twenty-nine, Kelsey Miller had done it all: crash diets, healthy diets and nutritionist-prescribed “eating plans,” which are diets that you pay more money for. She’d been fighting her un-thin body since early childhood and after a lifetime of failure, finally hit bottom. No diet could transform her body or her life. There was no
A bit off-topic… Some of this book was quite good, well-written and evocative. The author has a talent for bringing you into a place and time, and leaves lovely touches bringing her story to life. Unfortunately, I couldn’t finish it, because I failed to see how a lot of said story related to ‘giving up dieting and getting a life’. Most of the time I felt I was labouring through some person’s backstory – which is fine, if you are just looking for a memoir to read. But a lot of it seems very privileged, pretty…
Really liked it Really like this book. I do take the whole Intuitive Eating thing with a pinch of salt, but Kelsey Miller is funny and intelligent throughout. The STD chapter did make me cringe a bit but it was honestly written and she handled writing about it well. Would recommend to anyone, but especially anyone interested in eating mindfully and body acceptance etc.
Fab reading! I loved reading Kelsey’s story and made me feel right at home.