What Have You Got to Lose?: The Great Weight Debate and How to Diet Successfully [Paperback]

'Funny, bold, helpful and inspiring... should resonate with anyone who has ever worried about their weight. Which is most of us' Scotsman

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.

Shelley Bovey is a writer and broadcaster. She contributes to the Guardian, the Independent and several magazines, and is the author of three previous books including The Forbidden Body: Why Being Fat is Not a Sin and Sizeable Reflections: Big Women Living Full Lives. She lives in Somerset.