Curvy List » memoir http://curvylist.com Sun, 26 Jun 2011 20:49:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 The Amazing Adventures of Diet Girl http://curvylist.com/2010/the-amazing-adventures-of-diet-girl/ http://curvylist.com/2010/the-amazing-adventures-of-diet-girl/#comments Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:58:35 +0000 Curvy Girl http://curvylist.com/?p=670 Author: Shauna Reid
Synopsis from Amazon.com: At just twenty-three years old, Shauna Reid weighed 351 pounds. Spurred into action by the sight of her enormous white knickers billowing on the clothesline, she created the hugely successful blog “The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl.” Hiding behind her Lycra-clad, roly-poly alter-ego, her transformation from couch potato to svelte goddess began. Today, eight thousand miles, seven years, and 175 pounds later, the gloriously gorgeous Shauna is literally half the woman she used to be. Hysterically funny and heart-wrenchingly honest, The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl includes travel tales from Australia to Paris to Red Square, plus romance when she meets the man of her dreams in a Scottish pub. This is the uplifting true story of a young woman who defeated her demons and conquered her cravings to become a real-life superhero to inspire us all.
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]]> http://curvylist.com/2010/the-amazing-adventures-of-diet-girl/feed/ 0 Read an excerpt from ‘Hungry’ by Crystal Renn http://curvylist.com/2009/read-an-excerpt-from-hungry-by-crystal-renn/ http://curvylist.com/2009/read-an-excerpt-from-hungry-by-crystal-renn/#comments Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:06:09 +0000 Curvy Girl http://curvylist.com/?p=447 CrystalRenn2A memoir by insanely successful plus size model Crystal Renn was released earlier this month, and you can read an excerpt at ABC News.

Renn has discussed her struggles with weight, including eating disorders. The book, called “Hungry: A Young Model’s Story of Appetite, Ambition and the Ultimate Embrace of Curves,” details her journey from emaciated, unhealthy and miserable to curvy and happy size 12.

A recent article from Fox News detailed the horrific health complications Renn endured to stay thin: heart palpitations, excessive water retention, hair falling out and loss of her menstrual cycle

In the excerpt posted at ABC, Renn talks about how she got from here to there.

I started to eat. I stopped churning mindless circles on an elliptical cross-trainer for seven or eight hours a day, my arms and legs jerking like a marionette’s. I stopped obsessing about chewing a single stick of sugar-free gum. I got heavier. I put on pounds by the dozen and leap frogged dress sizes—from 00 to 12. But I honestly didn’t mind the weight gain and the loss of my matchstick limbs. I made a choice to stop starving.

You can buy “Hungry” at retailers nationwide. Click here to get it from Amazon for $16.50 (it’s also available for the Kindle for $9.99), and here to get it from Barnes & Noble for $20 or $10 for the digital edition.

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Synopsis from Amazon.com: When McClure, a 33-year-old children’s book editor from Chicago, creates a Web site to chronicle losing weight, she contemplates possible names for it. She rejects My Weight Loss Journey, Soon To Be Slender, My Body Journal and Funky Flesh, which she decides “has bad B.O. connotations,” before choosing Pound. In this memoir, McClure offers sardonic commentary on both projects—her struggle to shed pounds and the creation and growth of Pound—from confessing how much she wants a special Weight Watchers magnet (the token the program gives to members when they lose their first 25 pounds) to describing a shopping trip to Lane Bryant.
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