Food Fight: How I Battled to Lose 100 Pounds (Three Times!) and What Victory Looked Like in the End

by p0rtia

Overview

Binge eaters are usually superstars at losing weight rapidly in impressive amounts. It’s maintaining a loss that defeats us. Most binge eaters also eventually become obese, which I refer to as chronic obesity. We’re the ones most likely to be on the roller coaster ride of weight loss and weight gained that is witnessed and deprecated by the World at Large.

This book is the chronicle of that ride, told in the form of short, personal reminiscences and ruminations that describe both the emotional and the practical aspects of obesity. It is not a recommendation of any one weight-loss plan or a compendium of tips. It’s not me sharing a sure-fire secret found after years of searching the far corners of the weight-management universes.

It is my truth, sometimes sad, often frustrating, always blunt. Victorious in the end.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781939113399
Publisher:	Savvy Press
Publication date:	01/03/2020
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.44(d)

About the Author

Born in New Jersey in 1953, p0rtia now spends her summers in an off-grid cabin in upstate New York and her winters on an island off the west coast of Florida. A writer and editor for over thirty years, including fifteen years living in Egypt, she enjoys tennis and gardening.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part One: The Battle Lines are Drawn

In the Beginning

Five Pounds Thinner

Snap

The World at Large

Baby’s First Diet

Mrs. Peel, We’re Needed!

Banana Dream

Eating in Public

Diets Don’t Work

Etc.

Part Two – The War on Hunger

Copernicus

Where Did It All Go Wrong?

Scales

The M&M

Rock Hudson’s Yo-Yo

Diets Don’t Work Redux

Two Plus Two is Four

The Compliment

The Compliment Redux

Monday Monday

Triple Lutz

It’s Your Fault: Nature

Fashion Statement

The Girl in the Mirror

All in the Family

Ode to Large

Let’s Make a Deal

The Hunger Response

Bingeing

Part Three: The March to Victory

Help Me If You Can

Two Years Before the Fast

The Tipping Point

Potential

The First Three Months

Night and Other Terrors

I Discover JUDDD

JUDDD Redux

The A Word Redux

Delay, Don't Deny

Going Public

Fasting

Staying Focused

Exercise

Fat-Shaming

Appendix One: Live Lessons

Appendix Two: Weight-Management Terminology