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This Is Big: How the Founder of Weight Watchers Changed the World (and Me)
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16/100Critics
17/100Scholars
Author:
Marisa Meltzer
Publisher:
Little, Brown and Company
Date:
April 14, 2020
Marisa Meltzer examines her life-long dedication to losing weight, which was transformed when she learned about the life of Jean Nidetch, founder of Weight Watchers.
What The Reviewers Say
... a triumphant chronicle in which no cinematic 'grand finale' victory is claimed.
Meltzer’s extensive and very personal homage to Nidetch, as well as her wise and often witty analysis of weight and its inner meaning, can serve as direction for those seeking an ideal of external self-image..
Nidetch’s success in life, in business, and in weight loss motivated Meltzer to commit to the Weight Watchers program, and it inspired her to write a journalistic profile of the one celebrity who could help her most. Meltzer’s engaging history of Weight Watchers and candid account of her own dieting journey is a frank and affirming portrait of the ways women, in particular, have always coped with health and self-image..
Meltzer interweaves her story of weight gain and loss with that of Nidetch. The combination creates an informative picture of what life is like for obese women who constantly obsess about food.
