- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (3 April 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0747577552
- ISBN-13: 978-0747577553
- Product Dimensions: 22 x 14 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 936,123 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'It will strike a chord with every woman who's ever uttered the words: "I'm having a fat day"' Glamour 'Crewe captures this obsession beautifully, through hilarious anecdotes of her infatuation with her own waistline' Cosmopolitan 'Hilarious ... Beautifully written, often wonderfully funny, and packed with acute observations about the wobbly underbelly of female anxiety' Kate Saunders, Sunday Times 'Compelling reading ... a book bursting with colour and crackling with edgy, ironic wit' Daily Mail
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anecdotes of her infatuation with her own waistline' --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
As an eating disorders therapist, I was very interested to read this book. Although the book is very well written, and invokes some powerful imagery, I felt that the writer never fully understands the obvious root of her eating distress. Ms Crewe vacillates wildly on the causes, spending paragraphs trying to discover what is obvious to any reader with some basic wisdom. Her endless discussions and fascinations with fat and how her thighs still spread at size 8 are hard to take. This book can be a frustrating in places, anger making, and mostly, not a book to read if you want to feel some light. However, if you are a family member of a person with an ED, it can shed light on the voices in the ED head. If you have an ED, don't expect to feel full of inspiration when you take a bite of this book.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
One of the poorest-written books I've ever read.
The author has no self-awareness at all. As a result, her "insights" are nothing of the sort, and her personal reminiscences are trite and superficial. She has no understanding of the emotional back-drop of eating disorders, and therefore no critical tools with which to analyse her own behaviour.
She claims to be "normal-abnormal", but much of her attitude towards food is just plain disordered. For example, she triumphs at having "landed anorexia", holding it up as some kind of holy grail of weight-loss. Frankly, that's just irresponsible.
And the book is astonishingly poorly written. Her sentences are rambling and unstructured, her chapters even more so. Emotional landmarks - developing bulimia, meeting her husband - are held at a distance, so readers are never able to enter into a moment and feel that they are experiencing it along with the author. The upshot is that we couldn't care less.
The author has no self-awareness at all. As a result, her "insights" are nothing of the sort, and her personal reminiscences are trite and superficial. She has no understanding of the emotional back-drop of eating disorders, and therefore no critical tools with which to analyse her own behaviour.
She claims to be "normal-abnormal", but much of her attitude towards food is just plain disordered. For example, she triumphs at having "landed anorexia", holding it up as some kind of holy grail of weight-loss. Frankly, that's just irresponsible.
And the book is astonishingly poorly written. Her sentences are rambling and unstructured, her chapters even more so. Emotional landmarks - developing bulimia, meeting her husband - are held at a distance, so readers are never able to enter into a moment and feel that they are experiencing it along with the author. The upshot is that we couldn't care less.
8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I thought this was marvellous, far better than The Hungry Years, and considerably more subtle. Crewe writes superbly and vividly evokes the extreme oddity of women's relationship with food and with thier own bodies. It made me think very hard about myself and my prejudices. Why do we so dislike fat? Even sofas have to be flat and square now! Crewe provides no glib answers, but what she writes will make you question the sheer amount of time we all spend trying to duck out of our own bodies as if this could make us immortal, and the waste of energy and love that results. I have often sat at all-woman lunches, watching everyone compete to eat as little as possible, with everyone thinking so hard about calroies that we forget to love each other and to laugh. This isn't self-obsessed; it's generous and kind, and it stretches a friendly hand across such frozen lunch-tables. Highly recommended.
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I have lost my time reading this book....
and I do not want to spend anymore writing a review of it. Some of the one star reviews above express what I think of it. Read more
Published 20 months ago by E. Daurios
More than the sum of its parts - a book for every woman
I almost gave up on this one - but I'm glad I persevered. The book is part autobiography, part 'women's studies', part social sciences. Read more
Published on 27 April 2010 by Miss E. Potten
eating myself.....
I adore this book, its hilarious in places & fascinating.
Ive never met any1 so paranoid & funny ever, how she gets through everyday i have no idea. Read more
Ive never met any1 so paranoid & funny ever, how she gets through everyday i have no idea. Read more
Published on 24 Mar 2009 by Mrs. L. Stocks
Disturbing and disappointing
I bought this book thinking it would help me with my disordered eating and give me hope for my future. Instead it just made me feel worse about everything. Read more
Published on 7 Jun 2008 by Reviewgal
Very sad
I found it very sad to read about someone's obsession with food. If this book prevents anyone else from going down this road then it is a good thing I guess.
Published on 4 April 2008 by Mrs. Sophie Green
Occasionally good..
..but if I'm honest, this book has been next to my bed for 6 months now and I'm only half way through. Read more
Published on 16 Jun 2007 by R. E. Beckett
Frustrating
I read the excerpts of this book in the Times and thought it sounded fascinating. It was - occasionally. Read more
Published on 24 July 2006 by Claretta
Eating Myself
This is a frank and honest book about one woman's experience and attitude to food. I found it fasinating that she was willing to share her inner most habits and secrets... Read more
Published on 27 Jun 2006 by Rachel B
truly terrible
After all the campaigning against eating disorders for years, I can't believe a book like "Eating My-Self" is still being published. This book is all about negative body image. Read more
Published on 16 May 2006 by C. Account
A great book
I have lost several stone and am now 'slim' but still battle with temptation and self-image. I found I could identify with a lot of the authoress's feelings and so feel 'I am not... Read more
Published on 7 May 2006 by Lizbeth
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