Candida Crewe's relationship with food is anxiety-ridden. In fact, is there anything 'normal' about any woman's relationship with their weight? Most women, even those who have never had any kind of eating disorder, hover on the edge. They are keenly aware of what they eat, and think they would be happier if they were a bit thinner, or quite a lot thinner. Eating Myself is a wise, witty and often disturbing memoir, charting one woman's uneasy struggle to face her demons.
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`Compelling reading ... a book bursting with colour and crackling
with edgy, ironic wit' -- Daily Mail
`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
`It will strike a chord with every woman who's ever uttered the
words: "I'm having a fat day"' -- Glamour
`One of the great things about this book is the way she explains,
using lots of anecdotes, how it is possible to be slim, and yet to feel fat
... brave, revealing, and shocking' -- William Leith, Guardian
with edgy, ironic wit' -- Daily Mail
`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
`It will strike a chord with every woman who's ever uttered the
words: "I'm having a fat day"' -- Glamour
`One of the great things about this book is the way she explains,
using lots of anecdotes, how it is possible to be slim, and yet to feel fat
... brave, revealing, and shocking' -- William Leith, Guardian
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The female counterpart to William Leith's The Hungry Years,
Eating Myself will strike a chord with women everywhere; a searingly honest
look at every woman's biggest obsession, through the eyes (and stomach) of
the author's own history of eating
Eating Myself will strike a chord with women everywhere; a searingly honest
look at every woman's biggest obsession, through the eyes (and stomach) of
the author's own history of eating
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
By Cordealia
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
By India Wilkes
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.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By Reviewgal
Format:Paperback
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. This woman still has SERIOUS issues with food. She is still obsessed with it, she still skips breakfast and looks to me like she has not really healed from her eating disorder.
She talks about knowing the pain of being fat but her highest weight at 5'5" was 11 stone 3lbs!!! That is only a few pounds away from the medical limit for her height. Hardly fat.
There is also an enormous amount of discussion about her family, which again seems to me to be way off the point of the book.
I would not recommend this book. It saddens me that this woman still thinks of herself as fat. If I were anorexic I would find this book triggering. As someone with disordered eating I just found it depressing.
I never write reviews but I had to for this one.
Highly disturbing. Disempowering.
She talks about knowing the pain of being fat but her highest weight at 5'5" was 11 stone 3lbs!!! That is only a few pounds away from the medical limit for her height. Hardly fat.
There is also an enormous amount of discussion about her family, which again seems to me to be way off the point of the book.
I would not recommend this book. It saddens me that this woman still thinks of herself as fat. If I were anorexic I would find this book triggering. As someone with disordered eating I just found it depressing.
I never write reviews but I had to for this one.
Highly disturbing. Disempowering.
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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 on 29 Sep 2010 by E. Daurios
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Elegant writing, subtle ideas
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... Read more
Published on 12 May 2006 by D. M. Purkiss
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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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