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Foreword: My Son's Perspective ix
Preface: A View from the Crow's Nest/My Turn xi
Chapter 1 Puget Sound/Relative Calm 1
Chapter 2 Dangerous Waters/Out of This World and into the Abyss 11
Chapter 3 Thrown Overboard/Unhappy Reunion 24
Chapter 4 A Fish Out of Water/Landlocked in the Midwest 35
Chapter 5 Hook, Line and Sinker/Swimming with the Sharks 45
Chapter 6 Pike Place Market Special/Can Anyone Love This Day-Old Fish? 68
Chapter 7 Dropping Anchor/Landlubbers 79
Chapter 8 A Seismic Shift/Tsunami 85
Chapter 9 Pinewood Estates/Have I Finally Found Dry Land? 101
Chapter 10 Crying Uncle/Giving Up the Ship 117
Chapter 11 A Cook with No Galley/Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fire 135
Chapter 12 She's Listing! She's Listing!/Does This Sheet Make Me Look Fat? 150
Chapter 13 Navigating Without a Compass/Going Down for the Third Time 169
Chapter 14 An Unlikely Salvation/Rescue at Sea 179
Chapter 15 On to Valhalla/Mom Goes Under the Waves 198
Chapter 16 Scraping the Barnacles off My Hull/ Rechristening the Good Ship Nancy 204
Chapter 17 Sea of Opportunities/The World Is My Oyster 213
Chapter 18 Getting Back My Sea Legs/Thighplasty 238
Chapter 19 Out of the Blue/Media Storm Approaching 255
Chapter 20 Food for Thought/Some Hearty Fare 279
Acknowledgments 285
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Kevin Hawes
reviewed 703: How I Lost More Than a Quarter Ton and Gained a Life on April 09, 2012
703: How I Lost More Than a Quarter Ton and Gained a Life
Not a typical weight-loss book, which is a good thing. After getting to an all-time high of 703 pounds, and isolating herself from all social interaction, the author has pretty much given up on life. Until she finds a way to reconnect with the people again through the WWW. Compared to society's negative opinions of the morbidly obese, internet friends don't judge on appearance, and Nancy is slowly able to rebuild her self-esteem. Once she starts caring about herself again and finding joy in living, her weight starts to melt away; friends and interaction become more important than stuffing down negative feelings with food.
While I wasn't expecting a detailed memoir of her whole life, her background kinda/sorta helps to explain how she got to be so heavy. The loss of the weight is the shortest part of the book, and felt a bit rushed. But Nancy makes some excellent points about how, for many of us, paradoxically, excess weight is not really about the food. It's about how we deal with our emotions: some scream, some drink or use other addictive substances, and some choose food as the vice of choice. Why not? It's always available, and there's a food to fit every mood...
She didn't follow a diet plan as she lost weight, and, even now, doesn't freak out if she eats an extra bite of a sweet one day, and feels that life is more enjoyable when we are not obsessing about everything that goes into our mouths. Once the emotions were under control, for her anyway, the food and activity pieces of the puzzle just fell into place. There was the obligatory (for these types of stories!) appearance on Oprah to end the book, but the life story, while interesting in parts, was a bit of a slog to get to the point of the book.
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Add 703: How I Lost More Than a Quarter Ton and Gained a Life, At 703 Pounds, Nancy Makin's weight trapped her in her apartment for more than a decade. She was horribly ill and should have died, but she's one of the few who beat the odds. Find out how, without any diet, pills, or weight-loss surgery, she became a liv, 703: How I Lost More Than a Quarter Ton and Gained a Life to the inventory that you are selling on WonderClubX
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Add 703: How I Lost More Than a Quarter Ton and Gained a Life, At 703 Pounds, Nancy Makin's weight trapped her in her apartment for more than a decade. She was horribly ill and should have died, but she's one of the few who beat the odds. Find out how, without any diet, pills, or weight-loss surgery, she became a liv, 703: How I Lost More Than a Quarter Ton and Gained a Life to your collection on WonderClub |
