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Location	Call #	Volume	Status
Sherman Library	RM214.6 .M45 2020		AVAILABLE

Author	Meltzer, Marisa, 1977- author.
Title	This is big : how the founder of Weight Watchers changed the world--and me / Marisa Meltzer.
Edition	First edition.
OCLC	902046922
ISBN	9780316414005
Publisher	New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2020.
Description	xi, 290 pages ; 25 cm
LC Subject heading/s	Nidetch, Jean.
	Meltzer, Marisa, 1977-
	Weight Watchers International.
	Weight loss.
	Self-perception.
	Overweight women -- United States -- Biography.
	Businesswomen -- United States -- Biography.
	Women journalists -- United States.
	Overweight persons.
Other Genre heading/s	Biographies.
Contents	I was even a fat child -- Is there a typical fat girl? -- Fat is just who I am -- Sharing is on a voluntary basis -- We all want miracles -- When I fall, I fall hard -- What is her secret? -- What does being thin mean? -- The message is, I'm one of you -- She'd had enough after one bite -- Thin power -- You're visiting the dark side -- I'm a pusher -- They'll all be gone by Valentine's Day -- Living off the fat of the land -- He broke the social contract -- Eat, eat--but not too much -- Healthy busywork -- Yes, she's still thin -- An inherent distrust of gurus -- But I'm in control of the fork -- This tastes sad -- Losing weight can be magic -- That's progress for me.
Summary	Marisa Meltzer began her first diet at the age of five. Growing up an indoors-loving child in Northern California, she learned from an early age that weight was the one part of her life she could neither change nor even really understand. Fast forward nearly four decades. Marisa, also a contributor to the New Yorker and the New York Times, comes across an obituary for Jean Nidetch, the Queens, New York housewife who founded Weight Watchers in 1963. Weaving Jean's incredible story as weight loss maven and pathbreaking entrepreneur with Marisa's own journey through Weight Watchers, she chronicles the deep parallels, and enduring frustrations, in each woman's decades-long efforts to lose weight and keep it off. The result is funny, unexpected, and unforgettable: a testament to how transformation goes far beyond a number on the scale.

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ISBN	9780316414005
Author	Meltzer, Marisa, 1977- author.
Title	This is big : how the founder of Weight Watchers changed the world--and me / Marisa Meltzer.
Publisher	New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2020.

Title

This is big : how the founder of Weight Watchers changed the world--and me / Marisa Meltzer.

Author

Meltzer, Marisa, 1977- author.

ISBN	9780316414005

Description

xi, 290 pages ; 25 cm

OCLC

902046922

Publisher

New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2020.

Contents

I was even a fat child -- Is there a typical fat girl? -- Fat is just who I am -- Sharing is on a voluntary basis -- We all want miracles -- When I fall, I fall hard -- What is her secret? -- What does being thin mean? -- The message is, I'm one of you -- She'd had enough after one bite -- Thin power -- You're visiting the dark side -- I'm a pusher -- They'll all be gone by Valentine's Day -- Living off the fat of the land -- He broke the social contract -- Eat, eat--but not too much -- Healthy busywork -- Yes, she's still thin -- An inherent distrust of gurus -- But I'm in control of the fork -- This tastes sad -- Losing weight can be magic -- That's progress for me.

Summary

Marisa Meltzer began her first diet at the age of five. Growing up an indoors-loving child in Northern California, she learned from an early age that weight was the one part of her life she could neither change nor even really understand. Fast forward nearly four decades. Marisa, also a contributor to the New Yorker and the New York Times, comes across an obituary for Jean Nidetch, the Queens, New York housewife who founded Weight Watchers in 1963. Weaving Jean's incredible story as weight loss maven and pathbreaking entrepreneur with Marisa's own journey through Weight Watchers, she chronicles the deep parallels, and enduring frustrations, in each woman's decades-long efforts to lose weight and keep it off. The result is funny, unexpected, and unforgettable: a testament to how transformation goes far beyond a number on the scale.

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First edition.