- Paperback: 286 pages
- Publisher: The Women's Press Ltd (1 Dec 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0704347156
- ISBN-13: 978-0704347151
- Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.6 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,047,630 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Funny, bold, helpful and inspiring... should resonate with anyone who has ever worried about their weight. Which is most of us' Scotsman
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For larger women who may want to be thinner but don't know how to achieve it, whose own experiences have shown them that diets do not work. This book examines the issue of health and weight and extrapolates the truth from the numerous claims that fatness, or thinness, is best. It demolishes false claims on both sides from a basis of scientific research. The book also takes an analytical look at all methods of weight loss and their efficacy and offers a way out to those women who find their body fat is a prison. The author concludes that if you are happy being fat then your well-being and health should be optimized, and if you're unhappy then you do not have to stay fat.
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29 of 29 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Special treatment or special pleading?,
By A Customer
This review is from: What Have You Got to Lose?: The Great Weight Debate and How to Diet Successfully (Paperback)
I'm really in two minds about this book. As someone who has been overweight almost all my life, and has suffered from it (the two are not the same - which is one of the points Shelley Bovey makes), I am at a loss to say why I can't lose weight on a permanent basis, and from that point of view yes, I agree with her contention that there is something different about the way women who are overweight/repeat dieters can lose weight successfully - and who can argue with the fact that she's lost a huge amount of weight and kept it off?But.... I can't help remembering a line from a Cosmo book I read years ago; "Virtually everybody has to diet, so stop pitying yourself as unique... to lose weight and keep it off you have to eat less than you want for ever, it is that simple - and that simply awful!" While SB would no doubt hate and disapprove of the tone of most of that book, there is the crux of her message in a nutshell. I don't think her book addresses why women use food in a particular way, or why some people's "fullness sensors" don't trigger them to stop eating in the same way as the majority. But then perhaps only a psychologist can do that, and maybe only on an individual basis. I think this is a helpful and encouraging book to those people who are desperate to lose weight but trapped in a cycle of self-recrimination and reinforcing their own "failure" - and one of the most sensible things it says is an affirmation of the value of group support, even to those with "lone gun" character traits. Nonetheless, there is a part of me which says that the question IS one of self control, and all those old thatcherite chestnuts - SB herself discusses bulimia and compulsive eating, which are related to control over oneself and one's environment. Clearly, in the end, the harsh truth is that if you eat less and burn off more energy, you will lose weight, and if you continue to do it then you will maintain that loss. I suppose I was expecting something which looked a bit more at the triggers which cause some people to become overweight. And dealt with why food becomes so important particularly to women - overtaking other things like relationships, friendships, pastimes etc in extreme cases. So - it is a good book for people who feel trapped in a body that isn't "them" and want to do something about it - but I'm going to tell you the ending and spoil the plot here: SB says that if you want to lose a substantial amount of weight and keep it off, you have to stick to a modified version of however you lost the weight for the rest of your life. If you're not prepared to do that you are resigning yourself either to yo yo dieting, or to weighing more than you want to. Either way, it's a life sentence! I'm hoping for parole when I'm about 70.
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The best book about food and dieting I've ever read,
By ejdawson@aol.com (London, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: What Have You Got to Lose?: The Great Weight Debate and How to Diet Successfully (Paperback)
This book gives you all the home truths about food, dieting and self-image. It's full of common sense (backed up by scientific studies) and you can trust what the author says because she's "been there, done that". Her personal struggle - not just with weight, but with her conflicting feelings about losing it - makes a moving testimony. As a 'yo-yo' dieter I now understand better where I've been going astray. This book should be read by all overweight people, their partners,friends and families, doctors, bosses - oh, everyone really! It deserves to be a huge bestseller but it probably won't be because it doesn't offer miracles or quick fixes.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A fantastic book that tells the truth about weight loss,
By alex@focusdk.net (Bristol, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: What Have You Got to Lose?: The Great Weight Debate and How to Diet Successfully (Paperback)
Shelley Bovey knows what it feels like to be overweight and she knows that most diets, even the most popular ones, don`t work long term. In addition she understands and analyses the political implications of being fat and what that does to self-esteem. Using the latest scientific research, Bovey found a way to lose weight and keep it off. She has lost nearly seven stone and makes you believe that you lose weight too - permanently. Because this book is written from sound common sense combined with scientific knowledge, Bovey doesn`t tell you that all you have to do is eat `healthily` and the weight will fall off, like some authors do. She tells you the truth and What Have You Got to Lose will be the only book on weight loss you will ever need.
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