Thin Is the New Happy by Valerie Frankel256 pages
Completed 1/26/10
Recently began a new workout and diet regime, and was inspired to pick this memoir up - mostly because of the cover. Guilty again. What I thought would be a comical journey through a lifetime of weight struggle stories actually turned out to be more of a self-help book; not my thing.
Being put on her first diet at 11 and feeling the thrill that came with being thinner, Frankel proceeds through the rest of her life ranging in size from 6 to 22 on and off a variety of diets, weight loss programs, denial, and obsession. Now in her forties with two daughters, Frankel decides to shed not pounds this time, but her obsessive behavior surrounding dieting and weight.
Frankel's quest to rid herself of her self-critical body obsession while tackling the root cause of it just didn't reel me in as I had hoped. More of a cathartic book for her it seemed, and equally boring for me.
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