About this title: The author of the blockbuster bestseller Dear Dad has some inspiring new things to say about weight loss, addiction, recovery, and the healing medicine of humor. While dealing with one of today's most prevalent and baffling diseases, Anderson confronts isuses of family and self-worth that all readers can relate to. Anderson says, "If you heal the ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Adult
Date Published: 1993-05-01
ISBN-13:9780670837663ISBN:0670837660
Description: Very Good. Hard cover with dust jacket. Clean and in great condition. Buy with confidence. 100% satisfaction guaranteed. Shipped each business day. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Adult
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780670837663ISBN:0670837660
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. First Edition. Remainder-First Edition--242 pages. Interior-very nice overall condition. The boards and spine, as well as the DJ, are well-preserved. -Publish Place: New York-Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. read more
Edition: First Editon, First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking, New York
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780670837663ISBN:0670837660
Description: Robert De Michiell. Fine in Near Fine jacket. Remainder. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. 242 pages. DJ is clean and crisp with some rubbing. Green and black boards with orange metallic lettering on spine are clean and tight with tiny bit of tip wear at bottom corners. Text is crisp, clean, tight and in mint condition. An autobiography which focuses on self-image and overeating problems, "Louie's brave and funny exploration of his past will be an inspiration for readers struggling to tame the personal ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Adult
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780670837663ISBN:0670837660
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Dust Jacket has some edgewear present. -, Hard Cover, Very Good / Very Good. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Adult
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780670837663ISBN:0670837660
Description: A former library book with the usual identifiers in a protective glossy dust jacket covering. Dust Jacket has some edgewear present. -, Hard Cover, Very Good / Very Good. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Adult
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780670837663ISBN:0670837660
Description: Good in Good jacket. 33-U-Add Ex-library. Books rated "Good" may have some notes, underlining, or highlighting. These books also may contain the previous owner's name, stamp, sticker, or gift inscription, or may be library discards. read more
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Adult
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780670837663ISBN:0670837660
Description: Very Good with no dust jacket. 0670837660. Prompt delivery with tracking. Many satisfied customers. Satisfaction guaranteed; 1.1 x 8.1 x 6 Inches; 224 pages. read more
"Stand up comedian Louie Anderson was successful and rich - and was still trying to fill the deep void in his heart with food. I really appreciated his honesty as he interwove his current eating dilemmas with the story of growing up in a household of eleven children and an alcoholic father. A very touching and sad story from a man who makes his living making people laugh."
"I had no idea Louie Anderson was still around, let alone that he wrote books! I found this one at the library book sale, and the jacket suggested that it was a book that had to do with Anderson's quest to discover a) why he was fat and b) how he could get healthy. Apparently his first book dealt with the abuse he suffered at the hands of his alcoholic father.
Well, lately I've been on a quest of sorts to figure out my life, how I got to where I am, why I look the way I do, what I am going to do about getting what I want out of life, and so on and so forth. I picked this up along with another book along a similar vein in the hopes that my quest will be furthered by them what went before.
Louie talks about his supposition that fat people are fat because they are hiding from the world. He tells a parallel story along the way of a baby elephant whose mother is killed and who is brought into the circus and is crowned the biggest elephant ever, and then becomes a freak, a sideshow act, all the while searching for the love of his lost mom.
I gave a lot of thought to this, and I'm not sure it necessarily applies to me. I don't know. I never felt like I didn't get a lot of love growing up. My parents both loved me, although admittedly I was a miserable cuss after hitting 6th grade and finally became human again some time in college. This was due in large part to the trials of adolescence and life being split into the cool kids and the nerds of which I was decidedly of the second stripe. I was the first kid with zits, the first kid with braces, shy, and "smart". So, am I fat because of all that and the fall out that came with it? Honestly, I don't know. I could be. I'm still working on it. But I've pretty much crossed my family off the list. I felt loved by my nuclear family, if misunderstood, and my immediate family was very loving towards me--my grandparents, my aunts and uncles, my cousins. I had some friends, few, but friends I cherished and still love today... And I was looking at my school yearbook the other day, and thinking how I was one of "the fat kids" and honestly? I think I looked OK. Yes, heavier than the other kids, but I think I looked OK. Everything was just so out of whack, and I've had poor body image my entire life. And now, I can't even tell you the last time I looked at myself, really looked at myself."
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