Book Suggestions

[Reveal]

Hello everyone.

Well, I'm a month into my Atkins journey, and I can honestly say that I have never felt better in my life. That's physically AND emotionally. I, like all of you, have a story about how I came to mistreat myself with food, and what damage it wrought my body and my psyche. And I'm sure that story is interesting only to me.

I will say that right around the time I started Atkins I was reading Frances Kuffel's memoir "Passing for Thin", and I had started taking an anti-depressant (who knew!?) The Kuffel book is about her journey of discovery with her compulsive overeating, and I'd love to have some recommendations about other weight loss journey books, if you have any.

I don't need a how to, but more a book about someone's journey, if that makes sense. I read Betsy Lerner's "Food and Loathing" and didn't like it as much as the Kuffel book, incidently.

If you can't think of a book, but know of a good blog, website, or similar that would be great!

And I can tell you right now that a lot of you should be writing books about your amazing process. :yes

[soliwit]

Sadly enough I know of none

[Moochiecat]

Did you read the Loser's Lounge sticky in this forum..here's a link..lots of great testimonials in there! :yes

http://www.atkinsdietbulletinboard.com/viewtopic.php?t=59058

[Effie]

I'm going to the library tomorrow to get "Passing for Thin". Thanks for the suggestion! I'm also going to look for "Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World." Has anyone read this? Since I started Atkins 2 weeks ago, I'm craving information on healthful eating--something I've never done before in my 15+ years of "dieting."

Here's the review from Publishers Weekly for Fat Land:
You reap what you sow. According to Critser, a leading journalist on health and obesity, America about 30 years ago went crazy sowing corn. Determined to satisfy an American public that "wanted what it wanted when it wanted it," agriculture secretary Earl Butz determined to lower American food prices by ending restrictions on trade and growing. The superabundance of cheap corn that resulted inspired Japanese scientists to invent a cheap sweetener called "high fructose corn syrup." This sweetener made food look and taste so great that it soon found its way into everything from bread to soda pop. Researchers ignored the way the stuff seemed to trigger fat storage. In his illuminating first book (which began life as a cover story for Harper's Magazine), Critser details what happened as this river of corn syrup (and cheap, lardlike palm oil) met with a fast-food marketing strategy that prized sales-via supersized "value" meals-over quality or conscience. The surgeon general has declared obesity an epidemic. About 61% of Americans are now overweight-20% of us are obese. Type 2 (i.e., fat-related) diabetes is exploding, even among children. Critser vividly describes the physical suffering that comes from being fat. He shows how the poor become the fattest, victimized above all by the lack of awareness. Critser's book is a good first step in rectifying that. In vivid prose conveying the urgency of the situation, with just the right amount of detail for general readers, Critser tells a story that they won't be able to shake when they pass the soda pop aisle in the supermarket. This book should attract a wide readership.