The Weight-Loss Diaries
Title: The Weight-Loss DiariesAuthor: RubinISBN: 0071416234Category: DietTrim Size: 6 x 9UPC: 639785415619Price: $14.95[category] DietFromShapemagazine&#8217;s hip &#8220;Weight-Loss Diary&#8221; columnist comes an &#8220;uncut&#8221; look at the daily struggle to dietLosing weight doesn&#8217;t happen in that nice, linear way you read about in magazines and books. It&#8217;s messy and complicated, and you&#8217;re going to screw up a whole bunch of times before you get it right. That&#8217;s OK.Busy, social, and successful, Courtney Rubin was also tortured by a dysfunctional relationship with food that began in childhood and continued into an adulthood of binging, starving, and secrecy. Now she shares what she learned about dieting--and herself--over two years of chronicling her battle to keep food from consuming her life. As engaging as Rubin&#8217;s famous column,The Weight-Loss Diarieswill strike a chord with anyone who has struggled to keep his or her resolve in the face of an overwhelming obstacle.From her most ridiculous excuses for ending a diet to her dark days of flirting with eating disorders, Rubin&#8217;s memoir gives you what she and other dieters have always wanted--a brave and brutally honest account of what it&#8217;s like, day after day, often year after year, to try to lose a significant amount of weight. And after countless &#8220;I&#8217;ll start tomorrows,&#8221; the wiser, slimmer Rubin lets you in on why--and how--this time went differently . . . including the ways she&#8217;s found to be nice to herself that don&#8217;t involve buttercream frosting. She explores diet and weight issues--including self-sabotage--with insight, humor, and courage. With this empowering book, she reminds you that you&#8217;re not alone.Courtney Rubinhas written for theNew York Times,Marie Claire,Time, and other publications. Formerly a senior writer atWashingtonianmagazine, Rubin is now a correspondent based in London forPeoplemagazine.