Download or read book Fat Girl Skinny written by Amye Archer and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-29 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After her husband leaves her for a skinnier, blonder, younger, (better?) woman, Amye Archer is forced to confront the food addiction that has been holding her back for most of her life and has left her weighing two hundred and sixty-five pounds. With the help of the gang of girls of Weight Watchers, and their fearless leader -former fatty and community college dropout-Pantsuit Pam, Amye spends the next year losing weight and learning to live in a skinny (er) woman's body. Only being skinny is not as easy as it looks, especially when inside, she will always be a fat girl. Fat Girl, Skinny is Amye's story, but it's also the story of anyone who has ever been told: "You'd be pretty...if."
Download or read book Scoot Over Skinny written by Donna Jarrell and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2005 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this surprising collection, lively, provocative writers explore the many folds of fat that make up reality. Sometimes funny, sometimes angry, often illuminating and always engaging, these stories make a new and compelling case for why more room should be made for bigger behinds.
Download or read book The Skinny Girls Guide written by Miki Starr and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-06 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ali McKenna is tired of being petite and living in the shadows cast by her taller, thicker, and more interesting sisters, Millie the Exotic and D'asia the Genius. Both, by virtue of their existence, serve to make Ali's life more trouble than it's worth. Now that Ali is graduating from the 8th grade, she is excited for the opportunity to make a name for herself in high school. All she needs to accomplish this is an invite to her nemesis Demitry Haggardy's end of summer kickback and a little uninterrupted time with heartthrob Gage Campbell, and she's certain the rest will fall in place. But Ali couldn't have been more wrong! An ill-timed parent-teacher conference leading to D'asia's promotion to Advanced Placement courses at Wilma Rudolph High is only the beginning of her troubles. Suddenly younger sister,"Dull D'asia," who made Ali's life as the only petite member of their robust family slightly bearable, has started her period, had a growth spurt, and begun developing at a seemingly accelerated rate. Now the freshman year that Ali dreamed about is quickly fading into non-existence. She must find a way to stand apart from her siblings and keep Demitry Haggardy off her back while getting Gage Campbell to finally take notice. Desperate, she devises a plan to gain weight - and in all the right places. Unfortunately for Ali, her body has a little trouble determining what those places are!
Download or read book Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls written by Jes Baker and published by Seal Press. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls is a manifesto and call to arms for women of all sizes and ages. With smart and spirited eloquence, veteran blogger Jes Baker calls on women to be proud of their bodies, fight against fat-shaming, and embrace a body-positive worldview to change public perceptions and help women maintain mental health. With the same straightforward tone that catapulted her to national attention when she wrote a public letter addressing the sexist comments of Abercrombie & Fitch's CEO, Jes shares personal experiences along with in-depth research in a way that is approachable, digestible, and empowering. Featuring notable guest authors, Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls is an invitation for all women to reject fat prejudice, learn to love their bodies, and join the most progressive, and life-changing revolution there is: the movement to change the world by loving their bodies.
Download or read book Sweet Young Worried written by Blythe Baird and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2022-11-29 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sweet, Young, & Worried is the highly anticipated sophomore collection by author Blythe Baird Following her widely successful debut, Baird wastes no time as she reels in her reader with breathtaking imagery and punching narratives. With expert precision and vulnerability, Baird guides us on an expedition embracing queerness, love, loss, mental health, feminism & healing along the way.
Download or read book Two Girls Fat and Thin written by Mary Gaitskill and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intense, caustically funny first novel from the bestselling author of Bad Behaviour 'Dark, menacing and original' Joanna Briscoe, Guardian Dorothy Never - fat - lives alone in New York, eats and works the night shift as a proofreader. Justine Shade - thin - is a freelance journalist who sleeps with unsuitable men. Both are isolated. Both are damaged by their pasts. When Justine interviews Dorothy about her involvement with an infamous and charismatic philosophical guru, the two women are drawn together with an intense magnetism that throws their lives off balance. Mary Gaitskill's first novel is an intense, darkly funny and caustic portrayal of loneliness and the search for intimacy. 'What makes her scary, and what makes her exciting, is her ability to evoke the hidden life, the life unseen, the life we don't even know we are living' Parul Sehgal, The New York Times
Download or read book French Women Don t Get Fat written by Mireille Guiliano and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2004-12-28 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The book that launched a French Revolution about how to approach healthy living: the ultimate non-diet book—now with more recipes. “The perfect book.... A blueprint for building a healthy attitude toward food and exercise"—San Francisco Chronicle French women don’t get fat, even though they enjoy bread and pastry, wine, and regular three-course meals. Unlocking the simple secrets of this “French paradox”—how they enjoy food while staying slim and healthy—Mireille Guiliano gives us a charming, inspiring take on health and eating for our times. For anyone who has slipped out of her Zone, missed the flight to South Beach, or accidentally let a carb pass her lips, here is a positive way to stay trim, a culture’s most precious secrets recast for the twenty-first century. A life of wine, bread—even chocolate—without girth or guilt? Pourquoi pas?
Download or read book Skinny written by Donna Cooner and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hopeless. Freak. Elephant. Pitiful. These are the words of Skinny, the vicious voice that lives inside fifteen-year-old Ever Davies's head. Skinny tells Ever all the dark thoughts her classmates have about her. Ever knows she weighs over three hundred pounds, knows she'll probably never be loved, and Skinny makes sure she never forgets it. But there is another voice: Ever's singing voice, which is beautiful but has been silenced by Skinny. Partly in the hopes of trying out for the school musical - and partly to try and save her own life - Ever decides to undergo a risky surgery that may help her lose weight and start over. With the support of her best friend, Ever begins the uphill battle toward change. But demons, she finds, are not so easy to shake, not even as she sheds pounds. Because Skinny is still around. And Ever will have to confront that voice before she can truly find her own. Donna Cooner brings warmth, wit, and startling insight to this unforgettable debut.
Download or read book Skinny Women Are Evil written by Mo'Nique and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-04-06 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging America's confusing standard of beauty, a humorous look at life from the perspective of a large woman shares her own experiences as well as her thoughts on eating, sex, dating, exercise, and other topics.
Download or read book Fat Girl Slim written by Ruth Watson and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This diet book celebrates food for what it is. It chronicles Ruth Watson's experiences of dieting, shares her secrets and contains recipes as well as advice and suggestions. Her diet is based on calorie-counted recipes, with all food groups allowed, indeed encouraged.
Download or read book Skinny written by Ibi Kaslik and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the death of their father, two sisters struggle with various issues, including their family history, personal relationships, and an extreme eating disorder.
Download or read book Fat Girl on a Plane written by Kelly deVos and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A savvy, smart, and funny book about embracing your body and taking control of your destiny.” —Kathleen Glasgow, author of the New York Times bestselling novel Girl in Pieces “Bold, unique, and completely original…A debut both spirited and inventive, much like its indomitable heroine.” —Laurie Elizabeth Flynn, author of Firsts From debut author Kelly DeVos comes an unforgettable story about fierce fashion, pursuing your dreams, and loving yourself at any size. FAT Cookie Vonn’s dreams include getting out of Phoenix and becoming the next great fashion designer. But in the world of fashion, being fat is a cardinal sin. It doesn’t help that she’s constantly compared to her supermodel mother—and named after a dessert. Cookie scores a trip to New York to pitch her design portfolio, but her plans are put on standby when she’s declared too fat to fly. When she finally arrives, she finds she’s been replaced by her ultrathin rival. Cookie vows to lose weight, get out of the friend zone with her crush, and put her dreams back on track. SKINNY Cookie expected sunshine and rainbows, but nothing about her new life is turning out like she planned. When the fashion designer of the moment offers her what she’s always wanted—an opportunity to live and study in New York—she finds herself in a world full of people more interested in putting women down than dressing them up. Her designs make waves, but her real dream of creating great clothes for people of all sizes seems to grow more distant by the day. Will she realize that she’s always had the power to make her own dreams come true? “A realistic portrayal of the frustrations of weight loss and size acceptance…sex, body positivity, and ambition. VERDICT A strong choice for most YA shelves.” —School Library Journal “Packed with smart zingers about what it feels like to be fat and have a body that people criticize…Also a fairytale romp through the New York City fashion world.” —Carolyn Mackler, B&N Teen Blog
Download or read book Fat Girl Slim written by Marina Johnson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-18 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fat and friendless, carer to her mother by day and a secret binge eater by night, 28-year-old Alison hates her life. She feels powerless to help herself until one day she encounters the person she would like to be and determines to transform herself. Admiration soon turns to obsession and as Alison loses weight she discovers she's capable of things she never imagined. Will she get the life she desires or the life she deserves?
Download or read book 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl written by Mona Awad and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Bunny, a “hilarious, heartbreaking book” (People) about a woman whose life is hijacked by her struggle to conform “Stunning . . . As you watch Lizzie navigate fraught relationships—with food, men, girlfriends, her parents and even with herself—you’ll want to grab a friend and say: ‘Whoa. This. Exactly.’” —Washington Post Growing up in the suburban hell of Misery Saga (a.k.a. Mississauga), Lizzie has never liked the way she looks—even though her best friend Mel says she’s the pretty one. She starts dating guys online, but she’s afraid to send pictures, even when her skinny friend China does her makeup: she knows no one would want her if they could really see her. So she starts to lose. With punishing drive, she counts almonds consumed, miles logged, pounds dropped. She fights her way into coveted dresses. She grows up and gets thin, navigating double-edged validation from her mother, her friends, her husband, her reflection in the mirror. But no matter how much she loses, will she ever see herself as anything other than a fat girl? In her brilliant, hilarious, and at times shocking debut, Mona Awad skewers the body image-obsessed culture that tells women they have no value outside their physical appearance. Brilliant, hilarious, and heartbreaking, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl introduces a vital new voice in fiction. WINNER OF THE AMAZON CANADA FIRST NOVEL AWARD FINALIST FOR THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE COLORADO BOOK AWARD FOR LITERARY FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD ARAB AMERICAN BOOK AWARD HONORABLE MENTION FOR FICTION
Download or read book Revenge Body written by Rachel Wiley and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2023 Stonewall Book Award – Barbara Gittings Literature Award for Poetry Winner 2023 Feathered Quill Book Awards Finalist Revenge Body is Rachel Wiley’s third collection of poetry, full of the sharp wit and bold honesty we know and love from Rachel. Wiley invites her readers to join her on a journey filled with righteous anger, Black identity, magic, mental health, navigating maternal relationships, and the love and loss that comes from a breakup.
Download or read book Secrets of a Former Fat Girl written by Lisa Delaney and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-02-26 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspiring account of one woman's mission to lose six dress sizes and change her life for good For Lisa Delaney, being a "fat girl" wasn't just a matter of weight, it was a state of mind. At one hundred eighty-five pounds, she was despondent over diets that never worked and disappointed by her dull job and lack of a love life—until a late-night epiphany involving a half-gallon of ice cream convinced her that becoming a former fat girl, in body and spirit, was the key to creating a life she truly loved. Today, seventy pounds lighter, Lisa is a successful writer at a national magazine. She is married to a man she loves. And she wears a size two. Eye-opening, accessible, and filled with practical advice, this book reveals the seven secrets of Delaney's success, and explores how shifting from "wannabe Former Fat Girl" to actual Former Fat Girl is as much about seeing yourself as a confident, desirable woman as it is about achieving an ideal weight.
Download or read book Naturally Thin written by Bethenny Frankel and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-03-10 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times bestselling author Bethenny Frankel, the book that started it all: Naturally Thin. Bethenny Frankel, reality TV star, “Queen of Cocktails,” and “Mommy Mogul” has always had a passion for preparing and enjoying healthful, natural foods and sharing that love. The New York Times bestseller Naturally Thin shows how anyone can banish their Heavy Habits, embrace Thin Thoughts, and enjoy satisfying meals, snacks, and drinks without the guilt. Armed with Bethenny’s rules, you will say: -I know when I am really hungry -When I’m really hungry, I look for high-volume, fiber-rich foods -I can have any food I want -I love the taste of real food With more than thirty simple, delicious recipes (including her famous SkinnyGirl Margarita), a one-week program to jump-start readers on the Naturally Thin lifestyle, and warm, witty encouragement on every page, Frankel serves up a book for a healthier and thinner life.
