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"A skilled blend of insight...and emotion" (Publishers Weekly), a memoir for every woman who has ever tried to lose weight.
Frances Kuffel transformed her life by losing 188 pounds. Unfortunately, she gained over half those pounds back. But she also gained four new friends during this period, whom she met online. Frances, Lindsay, Katie, Mimi, and Wendy bonded quickly, dubbing themselves the Angry Fat Girlz. In Eating Ice Cream with my Dog, Frances Kuffel shares a candid and witty account of one year in which five women diet and eat, lose and gain, exercise and survive injury--and struggle to find their best selves.
Previously published as Angry Fat Girls.
- Sales Rank: #1817660 in Books
- Published on: 2011-05-03
- Released on: 2011-05-03
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.30" h x .90" w x 5.40" l, .63 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 336 pages
From Publishers Weekly
Columnist, poet and short story writer Kuffel spent 42 years morbidly overweight before losing 188 pounds, which she chronicled in 2004's Passing for Thin: Losing Half My Weight and Finding My Self. In this follow-up, she recounts the story of gaining back half of that weight and beginning anew her struggle to find herself, this time with the help of an online "Angry Fat Girls" club, including four other women who have each learned the same disheartening lesson: "nobody who gets thin gets rid of their problems." Kuffel's narrative of rededication is a skilled blend of insight (the psychology of being overweight, the "literary paradigms of the chubby heroine") and emotion ("It is a lonely state, the fat woman and the food and her groaning, aching, widening body") that never flags in intimacy, honesty, or compassion. With keen humor and disarming skill, Kuffel introduces readers to the most private moments of the five women, whose addictive relationships with food make regular nourishment a constant nightmare of temptation. Though separated for most of the story, the members of the club eventually meet up in New York City for a conclusion that should prove unforgettable for anyone who has struggled with self esteem or addiction issues.
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Review
Columnist, poet and short story writer Kuffel spent 42 years morbidly overweight before losing 188 pounds, which she chronicled in 2004's Passing for Thin: Losing Half My Weight and Finding My Self. In this follow-up, she recounts the story of gaining back half of that weight and beginning anew her struggle to find herself, this time with the help of an online "Angry Far Girls" club, including four other women who have each learned the same disheartening lesson: "nobody who gets thin gets rid of their problems." Kuffel's narrative of rededication is a skilled blend of insight (the psychology of being overweight, the "literary paradigms of the chubby heroine") and emotion ("It is a lonely state, the fat woman and the food and her groaning, aching widening body") that never flags in intimacy, honesty of compassion. With Keen humor and disarming skill, Kuffel introduces readers to the most private moments of the five women, whose addictive relationships with food make regular nourishment a constant nightmare of temptation. Though separated for most of the story, the members of the club eventually meet up in New York City for a conclusion that should prove unforgettable for anyone who has struggled with self esteem or addiction issues. --Publishers Weekly 2/15/2010 (added by author)
From the Inside Flap
"We're nor angry at a world that doesn't like fat people, or angry at ourselves. We're angry at our fat, our eating, our reasons for eating."
Frances Kuffel transformed her life by losing 188 pounds. But like the vast majority of dieters, she transformed it again by gaining over half those pounds back.
Frances's losing-and-gaining pattern is more dramatic than most, but it's not unusual. After all the struggle and hard work -- and success -- she somehow lost control, and was once again forced to carry around a nearly unbearable weight, both physically and psychologically. And like so many women, she wondered: How could this happen?
But she also gained many new friends during this period: in particular, four women in similar situations and similar bad moods, whom she met online. Frances, Lindsay, Katie, Mimi, and Wendy bonded quickly, dubbing themselves the Angry Fat Girlz. They shared not just rage, but embarrassment and fear, fragile hope and a mutual obsession with shoes. Sometimes, they shared despair. They asked themselves -- and each other -- the difficult questions: Who am I inside all this weight? How much am I allowed to enjoy myself, and how much do I have to deny myself? What could I do if I were thin?
In Angry Fat Girls, Frances Kuffel shares their story, while musing on everything from Labrador retrievers as compulsive overeaters to screaming under water to how the queens of Chubby Chick Lit get it wrong. The result is a howling, honest, painful frolic through a year in the lives of five women as they diet and eat, lose and gain, exercise and survive injury -- and struggle to find their individual definition of freedom along the way.
Frances Kuffel is also the author of Passing for Thin, and has been profiled in Time, Salon, More, Chicago Sun-Times, and other media. She has made extensive radio and television appearances, including on CBS's The Early Show and Good Day Live, has been a guest columnist for the San Diego Reader, and has written and blogged for Psychology Today. Her short stories have appeared in TriQuarterly, the Massachusetts Review, Glimmer Train, the Greensboro Review, and Montana Women's Writers: A Geography of the Heart, and her poetry has appeared in the Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, Southern Poetry Review, and Quarterly West. She holds an MFA from Cornell and lives in New York. (added by author)
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29 of 31 people found the following review helpful.
True reality....
By NY
I recently decided to re-read Frances Kuffel's first book "Passing for Thin" when I discovered her new book, Angry Fat Girls. I ordered two copies right away and was anxious for their arrival. One copy is for me and another for a friend who shares the same "reality." Losing only to regain what seems like the same 100 pounds over and over again. In this book, Frances' journey is interwoven with those of Lindsay, Katie, Mimi and Wendy. Friends she met here on Amazon. Each woman's story is different and yet the same. I can relate to so much having been on my own weightloss rollercoaster my entire life. I laugh with Frances and at times I cry. My heart aches for these women and their pain. I cheer their victories.
Frances has a edgy humor that suits me. Her thoughts on giving your weight to God or a Higher power made me laugh out loud. Her words, "I can't bear people talking about HP. I inevitably wonder how Hewlett-Packard has provided a miracle." Seriously Frances, I think the computer world miracles are handled by Apple.
As a woman who has spent much of my life "mordidly obese" there are frank topics that I have never seen or heard mentioned before. I am not just like anyone of these five women, but I am the same...just the same.
Mimi's simple realization, "It's my decision whether to be happy or unhappy" struck me as I had that moment about 20 years ago. I chose to be happy whatever I weighed although I want to be healthy so I continue the effort to lose half of myself once again.
Frances deals in facts. "Just the facts Ma'am!" The way she relates those facts really does suit me. Call it inspiration. Maybe I feel a common soul with her and her friends. I know I share a common story. I hope that they are all able to leave the anger behind and find happiness in their lives regardless of their current weight.
This is a thoughful, thought filled book
17 of 17 people found the following review helpful.
I wanted to like this book
By HungryDiva
I am currently reading this book, and I find it very difficult to get through. I really wanted to like this book because I can identify so much with all of these women. However, I feel like she does a terrible job writing this book. Someone else mentions that she goes off on these little tangents that go on and on. I completely agree. As someone with a difficult time concentrating, I could not focus on her points. She has way too much babble going on. So to make this review shorter, I would not recommend this book to anyone who likes clear cut and straight to the point reading.
This is a terrible read. imo
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
Thank God It Was a Library Book
By Jenni Robinson
I tried to like this book. I did. It usually only takes me 2-4 days to read a book. I haven't even made it halfway through and I've had it two weeks. The structure and layout is beyond frustrating.
This woman tries to be too many different things at once. She cannot seem to decide if she wants to be a memoir, a book about herself and four other woman, a book about obesity, or reviewing/bashing "Fat Chick Lit" (I'm quoting). She talks about herself in one paragraph, and then goes off on a review about a book, then picks up where a story about her friend left off three pages ago.
She expects you to keep track of five woman's horrible issues, childhood, relationships (past and present), relationships with food (past and present), and their weight losses/gains, without any clear path. I found myself flipping back to previous pages just to remind myself who the hell someone was.
It says it's a story about a year of woman gaining and loosing weight, but I cannot find a clear time line. She'll talk about this girl first, then in the next go on about the other girl's family issues, while sprinkling in her own, before going back to the original.
This book would have been bearable if she had organized it properly. Each woman gets their own chapter, or just something better than this.
She doesn't even seem to treat her friends or herself very well. She talks about them as if they're in high school gossiping in the locker room.
There seem to be MUCH better memoirs out there about extreme weight loss that are actually ABOUT weight loss, and not droning about eight different topics. If you want a real story that is followable, skip this one. If I had actually bought this book, I'd be really upset.
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