false 3066636 5 You’ve heard the phrase “the mirror is not your friend.” For Valerie Frankel, the mirror was so much more than “not a friend.” It was the mean girl who stole her lunch money, bitch-slapped her in the ladies’ room, and cut the hair off her Barbie. <i>If you’re like 99.9 percent of women, the war you wage with yourself over your body image begins at the ripe age of eight, and the skirmishes are fought for the next eight decades. Sometimes you don’t even know when you’ve won. (How many of us have taken out a photo from high school and thought, “Hey! I looked great—why didn’t I know it?”) This book is for anyone who has spent most of her life on—or thinking about being on—a diet. It’s for anyone who ever wished for candlelight in dressing rooms. It’s for anyone who has ever owned a pair of “fat pants.” In short, this book is for anyone who ever felt good or bad about themselves based on how they look.</i> Valerie Frankel, like most women, has spent most of her conscious life on a diet, thinking about a diet, ignoring a diet, or failing on a diet. At age eleven, her mother put Val on her first weight-loss program. As a teen, she was enrolled in Weight Watchers (for which she invented creative ditching methods). As a young woman, her world felt right only when she was able to zip a certain pair of jeans. Not wanting to pass this legacy on to her own daughters, Valerie set out to cleanse herself of her obsession. <i>Thin Is the New Happy</i> is the true story of one woman’s quest to exorcise her bad body-image demons, to uncover the truths behind what put them there, and to learn how to truly love herself. It’s a poignant, hilarious, and all-out honest account of one woman’s struggle with body image — the filter through which she’s always seen the world — and the way she ultimately overcame it. 3097642 2 9 2008 Thin Is the New Happy total:257|5:29|4:57|3:106|2:46|1:19| 257 802 513 74 3066636 0312373929 9780312373924 254 74 3.12 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3066636.Thin_Is_the_New_Happy 3 1 false Wed Aug 13 17:50:34 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 07 12:03:17 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 13 17:50:34 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3066636 0312373929 9780312373924 254 74 3.12 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3066636.Thin_Is_the_New_Happy 3 1 false Tue Jan 27 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 15 16:00:45 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 15 16:05:35 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3066636 0312373929 9780312373924 254 74 3.12 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3066636.Thin_Is_the_New_Happy 2 0 false Sun May 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 24 14:04:29 -0700 2009 Sun May 24 14:13:14 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3066636 0312373929 9780312373924 254 74 3.12 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3066636.Thin_Is_the_New_Happy 1 0 false Tue Feb 10 17:23:36 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 12 17:17:31 -0800 2009
She talks about being a chubby kid whose mother enrolled her in Weight Watchers at the age of 11 and had her doing fad diets at the age of *8.* She talks about yo-yo dieting and ...more...]]> 3066636 0312373929 9780312373924 254 74 3.12 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3066636.Thin_Is_the_New_Happy 3 0 false Sun Jan 25 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 12:15:27 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 28 18:53:11 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3066636 0312373929 9780312373924 254 74 3.12 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3066636.Thin_Is_the_New_Happy 4 0 false Tue Aug 04 13:23:12 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 19:13:11 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3066636 0312373929 9780312373924 254 74 3.12 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3066636.Thin_Is_the_New_Happy 2 0 false Sun Nov 29 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 30 11:59:32 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 30 12:03:36 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3066636 0312373929 9780312373924 254 74 3.12 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3066636.Thin_Is_the_New_Happy 0 0 false Sat Oct 31 00:49:52 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 31 00:55:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3066636 0312373929 9780312373924 254 74 3.12 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3066636.Thin_Is_the_New_Happy 2 0 false Wed May 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 02 12:28:57 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 10:09:53 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3066636 0312373929 9780312373924 254 74 3.12 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3066636.Thin_Is_the_New_Happy 3 0 false Sun Jan 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 20 10:21:09 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 20 10:27:18 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3066636 0312373929 9780312373924 254 74 3.12 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3066636.Thin_Is_the_New_Happy 1 0 false Sun May 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 17:38:35 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 17:41:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3066636 0312373929 9780312373924 254 74 3.12 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3066636.Thin_Is_the_New_Happy 5 0 false Thu Jan 29 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 20:06:34 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 20:09:44 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3066636 0312373929 9780312373924 254 74 3.12 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3066636.Thin_Is_the_New_Happy 4 2 false Sat Sep 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 14 12:26:39 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 19 13:33:56 -0700 2009
I enjoyed tracing her history...more...]]> 3066636 0312373929 9780312373924 254 74 3.12 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3066636.Thin_Is_the_New_Happy 3 0 false Mon Aug 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 13 15:05:28 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 03 13:39:39 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3066636 0312373929 9780312373924 254 74 3.12 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3066636.Thin_Is_the_New_Happy 3 0 false Sat Jun 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 27 12:47:14 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 27 12:52:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3066636 0312373929 9780312373924 254 74 3.12 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3066636.Thin_Is_the_New_Happy 3 0 false Tue Jan 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 11 12:29:03 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 22:57:19 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3066636 0312373929 9780312373924 254 74 3.12 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3066636.Thin_Is_the_New_Happy 4 0 false Mon Dec 22 07:29:34 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 22 07:35:07 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3066636 0312373929 9780312373924 254 74 3.12 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3066636.Thin_Is_the_New_Happy 3 0 false Thu Oct 02 17:07:40 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 02 17:14:38 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3066636 0312373929 9780312373924 254 74 3.12 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3066636.Thin_Is_the_New_Happy 4 0 false Mon Nov 10 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Aug 24 14:37:02 -0700 2008 Mon Nov 10 13:46:31 -0800 2008
While I could relate to the body image issues she brings up, it was difficult for me to see a size 10 or 12 as fat. I kept wonderi...more...]]> 3066636 0312373929 9780312373924 254 74 3.12 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3066636.Thin_Is_the_New_Happy 1 0 false Sun May 17 18:02:59 -0700 2009 Sun May 17 18:03:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=3066636