Always Too Much and Never Enough

The 4-1/2 stars is for the superb memoir. 5 full stars for her early years and coming to veganism and only a half star off for the latter part describing how she achieves weight loss and better health through juice fasting. If this were written as a diet book, it would pain me but I couldn’t give it......more

What is it like to be fat your whole life, with all the health and social issues that go along with that, and then to find a sustainable and healthy way to overcome your addiction to food, to lose 100lb and to experience life as a thin person? In this coming of age book, Jasmin Singer has created a f......more

A memoir from one of my favorite podcasters (a vegan activist), Jasmin Singer. She is so charismatic and entertaining in her podcast that I had to read her memoir. This is her coming-of-age story, about going from an overweight/obese teenager and young adult, and then discovering veganism and juice f......more

This is a tale of two books. The first part I'd rate a five--great insight to what being obese is like, her relationships, her emotions growing up overweight with a mom who didn't accept her as she was. The second part is one star--it's pseudo-science foodbabe type stuff about detoxing your body wit......more

2,25 La prima parte di questo libro è un buonissimo scorcio sull'aspetto mentale e quello che c'è dietro psicologicamente ai disturbi alimentare, a come l'ambiente circostante possa sia influenzarli, sia come fallisca a riconoscerli. In aggiunta a ciò, riesce a mostrare anche l'impatto del "fat shami......more