Half-Assed: A Weight-Loss Memoir (Paperback)
August 10th, 2009 | 
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“In this touching, funny, and sincere story, Jennette Fulda, who was once 372 pounds, recounts her lifelong struggle with her weight- first accepting it, then losing half of it.” — Shape Magazine, August 2008Blogger Fulda explains how she lost 186 pounds. In January 2005, she weighed twice that. A year earlier, after having her gallbladder removed at the age of 23, she’d realized her weight was threatening her life and vowed to get into shape. “Only I didn’t,” she writes. “I stayed fat for at least another year. Wake up call received. Snooze button pushed.” Fulda did eventually take control, changing her eating habits and taking up exercise: first walking, then jogging, then a combination of jogging, pilates and weight training. She started a blog, “Half of Me,” to chronicle her progress. As of February 2007, she had lost half her body weight; in the final chapter, she writes that she’s within 15 pounds of her goal weight (160 pounds) but warns, “I may have lost t (more…)
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Wonderful book
This was a very inspiring book, and I laughed most of the way thru the book. What a wonderful writer….and what an inspiring journey.
5.0 out of 5 stars
No whining here!
Jennette’s writing is funny and light-hearted when dealing with a very serious subject: morbid obesity.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Loved this Book!
When I bought this book, it took me a while to start it but not to finish it. Jennette Fulda is funny! Not just an inspiration but funny!
5.0 out of 5 stars
Jennette Fulda Is An Inspiration.
I really feel like Jennette put her whole self into this book, literally. Heart and soul, and sweat… Losing weight is such a difficult thing to do but, she did it!
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not the best story on the subject
This book was okay, but I really didn’t find it all that inspirational, or even typical of most weight-loss stories.
5.0 out of 5 stars
eye opening
Though is sounds like a cliche, this book changed my life. Specifically it changed the way I think about food and diets and being overweight.
5.0 out of 5 stars
A great read! For motivation and entertainment a like!
This is a realistic, no BS account of what a weight loss journey is all about. It relates a story about a real woman losing weight the right way- through hard work, and has a lot…
5.0 out of 5 stars
Jennette, you rock!
Your book brought me to tears–tears of joy, sympathy, laughter, you name it. The part at the end of chapter 14 about watching yourself in split-screen as you ran to the zoo was…
1.0 out of 5 stars
I am sooo tired of this [..]
Whine whine whine. Look, all diets work – but they are only short term. Unfortunately emotions are the reason why 95% of people can’t sustain weight loss. Dr.
5.0 out of 5 stars
THANK YOU!!!
FOR GIVING ME NEW PERSPECTIVE ON THOSE HORRIBLE WORDS, WILLPOWER & MOTIVATION! I AM NOW LOOKING AT “DIETING” IN A WHOLE NEW WAY.