The Weight-Loss Diaries (2004)

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Author

Courtney Rubin

Genre

Fiction

Rating

3.43 of 5 Votes: 3

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ISBN

0071416234 (ISBN13: 9780071416238)

Language

English

Publisher

mcgraw-hill companies

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Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble

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I enjoyed this book in that it made me feel not-so-alone in my weight-loss/food obsession. It started out kind of monotonous as Courtney Rubin went through the first few months of her diet/binge/diet/binge routine over and over. But isn't that how most of us tend to do dieting? Toward the middle/end, there was more variety in what she was talking about and not the constant berating of herself for her binging and "failing" at her (unrealistic, IMO) diet plan. I still have a few pages left that I haven't had time to finish up, but I think they will be the best as far as motivating me to exercise more and become more athletic, even if I continue to "fail" at the diet part. ;)

While the author’s tone and humor were very enjoyable, I thought that overall the book was not. It was not an inspiring or motivational weight-loss book. It started out with a bit of weight loss through healthy eating and exercise, but then the rest of the book (over half)(view spoiler)[ was about weight gain or bare maintenance (failure of successful weight-loss, opposite of what the title would have you think you were buying into). She demonstrated signs of a binge eating disorder but only touched on talking to a professional about it in the last part of the book, which I found very disappointing (I kept hoping she would get the help she needed) (hide spoiler)]

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I found Courtney Rubin's two-year chronicle of trying to lose weight while writing a column about her struggle for a national magazine to be inspiring! Not in a "let's start dieting right now!" way, but in an athletic, personal fitness one - in the course of the book, Rubin ran two marathons, which is something I'd love to do, but - and this is a very big but - I don't run. At all. So I've decided to do a 5k next month, which I probably will not run in its entirety but for which I'm planning to work on building my stamina by starting to run and doing other active things.
—Britney