Designated Fat Girl - A Memoir

Informationen zum Autor Jennifer Joyner has been a television reporter, radio show cohost, news director, and writer in North and South Carolina for more than sixteen years. She anchors morning newscasts for two Fayetteville radio stations; gathers news for the Raleigh/Durham/Fayetteville markets for WRAL-TV, one of America's largest CBS affiliates; and is a featured writer for WRAL.com. Joyner also chronicles her personal journey at jenniferjoyner.com. Klappentext Jennifer Joyner is slowly killing herself with food. She is powerless to stop. She weighs 336 pounds. She has uncontrolled diabetes and high blood pressure. She's lost jobs and friendships, and her marriage is hanging by a thread. She disgusts herself. She can't even attempt a sex life. She's never felt so desperate or alone. Designated Fat Girl is the painfully honest account of Joyner's most intimate experiences and private moments as an obese woman-of always searching for clothes that fit, pretending to order for two people at drive-through fast-food joints, the constant cycle of binge and regret, not fitting into her wedding dress, the cruel comments. It's a story about her decision to have gastric bypass surgery and the resulting complications. In the end, it is also a story of recovery and survival. Zusammenfassung Joyner pens a brutally honest memoir of life as an obese woman. She didn't know what to fear more: dying! or knowing that she was causing her own death. In the end! it is also a story of recovery and survival.

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer Joyner, Joyner Jennifer
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2010
• EAN: 9780762759620
• ISBN: 978-0-7627-5962-0
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, Biography: general, Memoirs, HEALTH & FITNESS / Diet & Nutrition / Weight Loss, Diets & dieting