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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful.
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By Peta Mayer
This is a read-cover-to-cover-in-one-sitting book. While it is nominally about weight-loss, it’s really a story about getting your priorities right and how to live life well. Indeed this presents as one of the keys to weight loss. It is therefore invaluable in that it implicitly exposes the futile, depressing and exploitative nature of fad diets while simultaneously showing you something far more positive. This book lingers with you long after reading, nudging you into asking yourself some powerful questions about the decisions you make everyday. The amazing thing is this is all done very subtly, and therefore generously. Unusual within weight-loss genres, Shauna is far from didactic, nor does she condescend to offer advice. In fact she is very humble, and you get the impression that she’s got a lot going on. While the narrative travels smoothly and lightly, it should not fool readers into thinking that Shauna’s journey was quick or easy. In reality readers will relate to some deep core issues about self-worth, body image, family, love, the self and other, change, self-knowledge and self-development. This is a moving story which causes you to reflect on your own values and has the potential to help you develop an enriched understanding of your place in the world. It affords a sense of clarity and determination that is addictive. Thankfully Shauna’s blog of the same name means the narrative progresses online, where you can continue to follow the story of this remarkable woman.
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful.Brilliant book! As much about finding courage as losing weight
By Julianne M. Pohl
I started following the Dietgirl blog a few months ago, and I’ve read through a number of the archives. “Dang!” I thought to myself. “This girl is *funny*!” I preordered the US book awhile back, happily received it on New Year’s Eve, and spent the evening (and a few days after…only because of family/job demands, otherwise it would have been devoured in one sitting) reading this book. Totally missed tuning in for the 9 p.m. (PST) dropping of the ball in Times Square, which usually marks the high point of our personal festivities. (We’re such the party animals.)
This book is brilliant! (And not, I’m not just gushing about it because I was desperate for a read at all, let alone a good one.)
Remarkably insightful observations of things I loved about the book:
- Numerous laugh-out-loud funny parts
- Parts that made me feel sympathetic, that I could relate to, and that made me ponder my own quest for fitness
- It’s *true*!
- The themes: Fitness is not *only* about the scale or a pant size. Don’t wait until you’re at the “ideal” weight to do the things you really want to do. Don’t let fear stop you. It’s a message that a lot of people need to hear. (Like Oprah, for example. Girlfriend, pull your head out of Hollywood and plunk it into this book!)
The drawbacks?
- Being irritated at what or whom ever pulled me away during reading
- Potential financial ruin from buying copies for family (especially the nieces) and friends
- Having to *wait* until Shauna Reid (hope! hope! hope!) publishes another book! (Don’t wait as long as that OTHER Edinburgh author, please!)
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful.The untold story is now told– and it’s HILARIOUS!
By Meg Veres
You might think that if someone wrote the truth about living through the process of weight-loss, the book would be so much of a downer that you couldn’t bear to both live that life AND read about it at the same time. Think again! Shauna Reid has been “lard-busting” for years and years with amazing success: not only has she lost half of her starting weight, but she’s kept her sanity and her raucous sense of humor throughout. It’s rare to find someone who is up-front and honest about the godawful process of weightloss AND who can still laugh about it.
This is a book that covers Shauna’s “transition years” between the day she reached her breaking point and started lard-busting in earnest, and the day that she found herself happy and comfortable in her own skin. We get to see huge life-changing events– large amounts of weight lost!moving across the world! touring Europe! re-learning romance! hashing out last-minute ways to stay in her new home!– complete with all the embarrassing details that make it both human and hilarious, as Shauna grins and shakes her head wryly at the whole ridiculous process of life.
Read it. You won’t be disappointed.
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funny thoughtful good read
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
This book was a book about a girl who lost weight, but this is not really a how-to book. It is more
about the personal journey she was on. It was great fun to follow along. Of course, I got the book
because I was looking for inspiration for my own weight loss but I found that this book had so much
more to it. One thing I liked about the book was hearing Shauna’s observations about the different
places she traveled as well as her home country of Australia.
I hope she writes something else. I think she is really fun and interesting.
Honest, endearing, and funny
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Shauna has always made me laugh. She keeps up the witty, personable style here in The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl. My favourite scene is when she makes Dr. G dinner for the first time – read it and you’ll know why I was crying with laughter.
Finally, a realistic weight loss journey!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Most of the weight loss stories I’ve read sound like a fairy tale: fat girl was an horrendous loser, then she found the “perfect” diet – and very quickly she became fashionably thin without any cravings or weight gains – and her life becomes perfect, with a prince on a white horse which magically appears out of hte horizon once she completes her makeover.
While she did lose half her weight at the time the book was written, Shauna Reid’s story isn’t a fairy tale. While she initially lost quite a lot of weight quite qiuckly – in certain points in her life, life got in the way – and the weight lose wasn’t that smooth, and sometimes even became a weight gain… But she persisted – and discovered that her problem wasn’t the number on the scales or the size of her pants, but rather her relationship with comfort food & her attitude towards exercise, and while her journey in weight loss hasdn’t brought her a size 0 – she did find her prince charming, and most importantly of all – she feels good in her own skin & size 14 jeans.
Inspirational book!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I thoroughly enjoyed reading about Shauna Reid’s amazing adventures. It is very well-written. Her story is funny, poignant, honest, refreshing and inspirational. Thank you for sharing the secrets of your heart – you are definitely not alone!
Relatable to life
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
In my opinion Shauna is an inspiration! She writes like she is face to face with you telling her story. I can comepletely relate to her life it’s kind of scary and she gave me the motivation to start my own weight loss. I feel that this book is so many in one. It has a life behind it and you feel for her through out the stages. I completely recommend anyone out there to read this book.
A Satisfying Light Read with Some Inspiration on the Side
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
“Did this woman ever get hungry,” I wonder?
Three days into a diet I develop a persistent desire for a resplendent restaurant meal. In my mind’s eye I salivate over steak, potato, and veggies smothered in piquant sauce paired with the perfect wine. Just short of culinary repletion the meal is capped with coffee and something comforting and rich, say dark chocolate bread pudding with sweet cream sauce.
If only my fantasy life ended there. Quixotic as it is may be, I might, with some difficulty, be distracted from such a dream. I could drink water. Eat a rice cake. Gnaw on my arm.
If it weren’t for the exercise. Weight loss requires a formal exercise plan which when enacted incites in me such a lethargy that my tired body spins into my brain fanciful images of my limbs resting supine upon the couch, a book in one hand, and the other hand scooping spoonfuls of chocolate chip cookie dough into my mouth. Pathetically attempting some form of mental restraint I push aside that image only to have it replaced by one of me putting back a bit of vino with some savory tidbits on the side. You know just a little something to fill in the empty spots.
My fat cells are champions at changing my mind from all attempts at reform. Able to overcome any obstacle, even their owner’s hopes of raiding the glut of single-digit size offerings on the cheapo clearance rack in the misses clothing department, these resolute guardians of plumpness, true to an inner calling, lead the purpose-driven life and demand nothing less than an abundant bacchanalia of gustatory diversity. Hey, it’s not me who is fat, but that my fat cells are self-actualized. Maybe I should just step out of their way. But then I would just keep getting fatter.
Unable to sate my appetite for sumptuous savories and sweets, while dieting I sublimate my desire for unrestrained consumption by going to the library and checking out a gazillion books. Serendipitously on one such excursion I ran across “Dietgirl” a book about one woman’s weight loss journey.
Shauna Reid went from 350 to 175 pounds in a few years time. In the past most magazine articles ran weight loss stories only on women who reached a final weight of 130 pounds or less. Today I am increasingly seeing stories of women who have lost a lot of weight, but still remain in the 150-200 pound range. These stories are so much more inspirational because most overweight women can read and imagine that they can succeed in attaining an achievable weight loss rather than a super-skinny ideal.
Seeing Reid’s astonishing success with weight loss does she provide me some guidance for my persistent and prosaic dieting dilemmas? Bless her heart, but no, she doesn’t.
Throughout I kept hoping for Reid to talk more about her diet specifically, such as what program she used, how she dealt with hunger pangs and aching muscles from exercise. Reid did not answer these questions, instead focusing on her emotional life. My dieting angst continues unalleviated. However I found so much to enjoy and consider in this book.
The descriptions of her family life are disturbing and explain her early adulthood malaise and depression. Reid looks back and wonders how she always felt like a chubby girl, even though her childhood pictures refute that label. I too felt chubby as a child, often given the label by a tubby adult. Now I look at my kid photos and see a normal size person. When did normal become chubby? As Reid explains, these kinds of misattributions last for years and leave our daughters creating a self-concept based upon false data.
So much of this book is about overcoming shame – a topic that reverberates with any woman who has struggled with her body image. The romantic storyline intrigued me as much or more than her weight loss. Most Gen-Xers can ruefully identify with her job woes. Like Reid who does not complete her weight loss in the initial time frame set, we must learn to forgive ourselves as the ups and downs of life sometimes hinder the progress of any long-term project. Instead of staying stuck in her childhood ways of relating to her mothers, Reid leads by example and inspires her mother to strive for a healthier lifestyle thereby showing that improvement in one area of life sometimes leads to growth in others.
For Reid it wasn’t just a diet. So much else changed. As a diary it is not the quickest read but so much will resonate with any woman who has wrestled with body shame and weight loss. The snarky, tell-it-like-it-is tone keeps the text moving and the other facets of her life provide their own minor storylines keeping the readers interest. A satisfying light read with some inspiration on the side.
Cute, but hardly in depth
Rating:2 out of 5 stars
The author is like a funny girlfriend with a serious weight problem. Each entry is one more step in her life from a severely obese girl to a confident woman. However, there is nothing at all extraordinary about the quality of the writing (I’d say just a touch above a talented high school senior), the depth of insight (again, a talented high school senior) or the quality of the wit (young woman’s magazine, say, Allure). A “nice” book, a good read, but hardly a book which will be read 10 years from now.
If there was an OSCAR for books, this deserves 1!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
This book is a gift truly a gift. Shauna’s book is so relatable, transparent, honest, inspiring, I was grippred and this book will contribute to my healing about my rollercoasting weightgain/weightloss, I lost 80lbs in last 7years but up and down 20lbs constantly, so I truly felt like I am not alone in my emotions, Shauna’s peace about her journey will help me find even more peace with mine. What a gift. truly give yourself this gift for Christmas. Thank you Shauna.
A totally relatable story about weight loss
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
A very funny memoir about a woman’s struggle not only with her weight but her own sense of self worth. Anyone who has ever struggled to lose a significant amount of weight can relate to her story — as long as you have an ounce of sense of humor. I will say that it was some what detrimental to my own weight loss struggle because she made me want to fly to Australia and eat all their treats. Fortunately, I don’t have the money for a plane ticket. Or a Xanax to take to actually get myself on the flight.
The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
I enjoy reading about other people adventures with the weight loss and how things happened for them. I enjoy the ups and downs of this book. The only thing that I didn’t like is that the person who sold it to me took 3 weeks in mailing it out or let’s just say that I didn’t get the book for almost a month after I paid for it. Good Book and encouragement with it.
Excellent!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
This is a wonderful and relateable book. I read Shauna’s blog faithfully, and enjoyed this even more than I thought I would! It’s wonderfully honest with an adorable romance. I highly recommend it!
Very funny, very accurate and very wise
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Reid takes the reader on her own journey with weight loss, and reveals the many dieting hurdles we all seem to face. She also reveals how little of dieting and weight loss actually has anything to do with food. Even as she is talking about her own love-hate relationship with food and how her life can be chronicled by what she eats and where she eats it, Reid lays bare the inner dialogue that fuels her motivation and decisions. I was both touched and vastly amused by Reid’s insight into her own life. There were MANY laugh out loud moments, and many times I got choked up for the girl, teenager, and young woman she was. It read like a good romance novel, and I was rooting for the heroine the whole way. I hope Reid continues to write in whatever capacity she chooses. I will certainly look forward to purchasing her next book.
Shauna’s energy is contagious!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Even if you don’t have to lose half your weight, you’ll enjoy Shauna Reid’s tales of traveling around the world, meeting the man of her dreams, and learning to live life out loud. Plus, she does it all before she hits her goal weight, showing that you don’t have to wait to be thin to live the life you want to. If all that still doesn’t convince you, buy it for the cool animated flip book printed in the bottom corner of each page!
More than a diet memoir
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
This book is more than a weight loss memoir. Yes, Shauna Reid tells us all about her dieting, but she also goes much farther and actually allows us to get to know her, which is rare in weight loss memoirs. She isn’t defined by her weight, she’s defined by her courage and her kind spirit. I think this book could be an inspiration for anyone who seeks to step outside their comfort zone and accomplish something amazing.
Great book
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. As one who has “been there, done that” this book covers the journey of weight loss with humor and insight.