num_pages: 320
description: With warmth, wit, and not a trace of self-pity" ( Entertainment Weekly ), Betsy Lerner details her twenty-year struggle with depression and compulsive eating in Food and Loathing, a book that dares to expose the insidious nature of women's secret life with food."Alternating between hilarious and heartbreaking" ( People ), Food and Loathing gives voice to one of the last taboo subjects and greatest stigmas of our being overweight. Lerner's revelations on the cult of thinness -- from the dreaded weigh-in at junior high gym class to the effects of inhaling Pepperidge Farm Goldfish at Olympic speeds -- are universally resonant, as is her belief that this is one battle no one should fight alone.Essential reading for anyone who has ever wielded a fork in despair or calculated her self-worth on the morning scale, "Lerner's lament is a triumph" ( Publishers Weekly ).
language: English
title: Food and Loathing: A Life Measured Out in Calories
titlecomplete: Food and Loathing: A Life Measured Out in Calories
genres: Psychology, Biography, Memoir, Self Help, Mental Illness, Health, Mental Health, Biography Memoir, Food, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 705
publisher: Simon & Schuster