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Counting calories and exercising: sooo boring-until transformed into comics. At age 50, cartoonist Lay (Way Lay; Good Night, Irene) decided she'd had it with her yo-yo weight and decided to downsize her foodstyle. There's nothing radical here: the fat-and-introverted adolescent, the ineffective quick fixes like diet pills and hypnosis, the junk-food binges-and salvation via healthy foods, counting calories, and exercising regularly. But Lay's lively, amusing drawings keep the message fresh and compelling. First comes her life history as "fattie," plus her daily routine for eating and exercising. Then follows a fat-prevention smorgasbord, including tips for outwitting emotional triggers to eat, reasons why you don't see fat people in cave paintings, ways to handle workplace food pushers, and sample workouts for both gym goers and the gymless. She ends with calorie charts, menu plans, and recipes. By rendering her diet dilemmas in memorable, colorful visuals-she talks turkey to a wind-up toy of herself and pictures fatty food as a greaser boyfriend-she encourages readers to use visualization themselves to solve their own weight issues. While Lay does mention a few resources, a short bibliography of print and web resources would have been useful. Recommended for teen and adult collections. (See also Jude Milner's Fat Free: The Amazing All-True Adventures of Supersize Woman!, LJ1/07.)
—Martha Cornog
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Here’s the skinny: After a lifetime of yo-yo dieting with pills, hypnosis, and ill-informed half-measures, Carol Lay finally shed her excess pounds and kept them off. Now this California cartoonist shares her experiences in a funny, genuine, and eye-popping graphic memoir that tells Carol’s story and shows you how you can do it, too.