Eating Ice Cream With My Dog
A True Story of Food, Friendship, and Losing Weight...Again
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3.3 • 3 Ratings
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- $4.99
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- $4.99
Publisher Description
"A skilled blend of insight...and emotion" (Publishers Weekly), a memoir for every woman who has ever tried to lose weight.
Frances Kuffel transformed her life by losing 188 pounds. Unfortunately, she gained over half those pounds back. But she also gained four new friends during this period, whom she met online. Frances, Lindsay, Katie, Mimi, and Wendy bonded quickly, dubbing themselves the Angry Fat Girlz. In Eating Ice Cream with my Dog, Frances Kuffel shares a candid and witty account of one year in which five women diet and eat, lose and gain, exercise and survive injury--and struggle to find their best selves.
Previously published as Angry Fat Girls.
Customer Reviews
Good read
This book wasn't quite as engaging as the first one but it was more honest. I appreciated Frances' look at obesity and culture and that there aren't any "quick fixes." It's too easy to show a successful 'ending' when life really just continues and our struggles don't go away. I appreciate the glimpse into the emotions of obesity and the hope that remains. I hope the author will not give up and continue to pick herself up after every fall.
The style this book most reminded me of is Anne LaMott, whom I also adore. If you like one, you'll probably like the other.
Waste of time
Poorly organized and written, Eating Ice Cream With My Dog does little to further body acceptance or help connect the reader with the author's struggles. The narrative is sloppy, material weak and characters incomplete. There are several memoirs related to weight gain/loss on the market to choose, don't waste your time or cash with this one.