Book Review

This book ripped me to shreds. Seriously, I may need a therapist...and a cupcake or twelve.

The book is written by Frances Kuffel who was fat for most of her life. At one point she lost a huge amount of weight. She detailed the experience in a book called Passing for Thin. After she wrote the book but before she began doing media events to promote it, Kuffel regained almost half of what she lost. This book talks about the experience of regaining. It's hardcore.

Some of her quotes hit way too close to home.

"We obese women overtip, get pressured into buying more expensive cell phones and laptops, all the while that we are fawningly thanking clerks and telling stores it's not a problem that it will take another week for delivery. We do this as an act of begging pardon for taking up so much space, for stepping out of the invisibility of being fat by asking for things."

Ouch

My first thought after finishing this was "anyone who really wants to understand me should read this book." After having some time to reflect, I find I have changed my mind. Fat/Thin is one of those issues that you either get or you don't. Even this book won't change that.