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Half-Assed: A Weight-Loss Memoir | 
 enlarge | Author: Jennette Fulda
Publisher: Seal Press
Category: EBooks
List Price: $15.95
Buy New: $9.99
You Save: $5.96 (37%)
Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 3912
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Pages: 250
Number Of Items: 1
Dewey Decimal Number: 362.1963980092
ASIN: B001BOT79Y
Publication Date: May 1, 2008
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Product Description
After undergoing gall bladder surgery at age twenty-three, Jennette Fulda decided it was time to lose some weight. Actually, more like half her weight. At the time, Jennette weighed 372 pounds.
Jennette was not born fat. But, by fifth grade, her response to a school questionnaire asking “what would you change about your appearance” was “I would be thinner.” Sound familiar?
Half-Assed is the captivating and incredibly honest story of Jennette’s journey to get in shape, lose weight, and change her life. From the beginning—dusting off her never-used treadmill and steering clear of the donut shop—to the end with her goal weight in sight, Jennette wows readers with her determined persistence to shed pounds and the ability to maintain her ever-present sense of self.
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 clever November 27, 2008
Steve (Denver, CO)
I enjoyed the book, although more for the lively writing style than the content. If the moral of the story is discipline, diet, and exercise for substantial weight loss, the book provides only very sketchy information on how to bring about the required changes. The author also appears to be operating under quite a few popular dietary delusions, such as the existence of "lean protein" and "good & bad carbs". On the positive side, the author admits that her weight-loss journey and nutrition/diet/lifestyle education are on-going, so the book is refreshingly free of dogmatism. Recommended!
 You should read this!!! October 23, 2008
Leah Smith (Knoxville, TN)
I borrowed this book from a friend and I dont know that she will get it back!! I haven't related so well to a book in my entire life. I hope she writes some more!
Food for thought September 30, 2008
Basbenee (USA)
Fulda lost around 200 pounds and details her weight-loss journey in this book. It's peppered with some facts, along with her slow start (she didn't just get serious and go-go-go) but it took a year to really get losing. She doesn't detail a diet plan but mentions cooking more and making smarter choices and exercising more. This is fine by me because I know how to cook healthier, I know the smarter choices in restaurants and grocery stores and I know I need to exercise. I just need to do these things to succeed. I don't need a plan to follow. She is good at detailing the little day-to-day observations, like buying a top in a size large for the first time in years or huffing and puffing and sweating after walking a few steps or any number of details that plague the life of someone who is too fat or someone who is losing weight. Anyone who has been in either pair of shoes can relate. She's a good writer and it's good food for thought for anybody who wants to lose, who is losing weight or who wants to try and understand a fat person's struggles.
Inspiring Memoir September 6, 2008
Eclectic Booklover (Any Town, USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I found out about this memoir by accident, and decided to give it a try. It was a great memoir: a story about the real pain experienced by a morbidly obese person (360++ lbs ) before she began her weight loss journey and lost half her body weight. This book is not a story of her self loathing or self pity. It is a straight forward memoir where Jeanette shares her emotions, her successes and some failures along the way. This book is not an instruction manual as to how she lost the weight, but rather it's a very witty book about a mindset and the stick-to- it attitude required for success. Enjoyable.
Review of book August 11, 2008
Love to Learn (Ovid, MI United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is an excellent book and the writer is so entertaining, it's like you're sitting down talking with her. For anyone that has a significant amount to lose, this book is inspiring.
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