Eat, Drink, Run., Bryony Gordon
Eat, Drink, Run., Bryony Gordon
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Eat, Drink, Run.
How I Got Fit Without Going Too Mad

Author: Bryony Gordon

Narrator: Bryony Gordon

Unabridged: 5 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Headline

Published: 05/31/2018


Synopsis

The new hilarious and inspirational memoir from Sunday Times no. 1 bestselling author Bryony Gordon.

Bryony Gordon was not a runner. A loafer, a dawdler, a drinker, a smoker, yes. A runner, no. Yet somehow, as she began to recover from the emotional rollercoaster of laying her life bare in her mental health memoir MAD GIRL, she started to realise that getting outside, moving her body and talking to others for whom life was also an occasional challenge, might actually help her. Going for a run might not banish her sadness but at least it might show it that she was damn well trying to beat it, which is sometimes half the battle. As she began to run further she started to see the limitations she had imposed on her life more clearly. Why couldn't she be a runner? Or a bungee jumper? Or a deep sea diver? Maybe rather than sitting on the sofa watching the world go by, fulfilling your dreams was just about standing up and taking that first step. Maybe you can do it too.

In April 2017, less than a year after she had weighed herself at over 16 stone but stepped off the scales and started training anyway, Bryony Gordon ran all 26 and 3/4 miles of the London Marathon. During this time she formed an unlikely bond with the royals, and even managed to convince one of them to speak openly in public for the first time about their own mental health. Here, in her new typically funny and hugely inspiring memoir, she shows us how extraordinary things can happen to us all, no matter what life throws at us, if we're just willing to keep going.

About Bryony Gordon

Bryony Gordon writes a column in the Daily Mail and is the host of the podcast The Life of Bryony. She previously wrote for the Telegraph for twenty-three years, becoming one of the paper's best loved writers, and hosted the Mad World podcast. She is the author of the bestselling The Wrong Knickers and Mad Woman, plus the Sunday Times Number One bestsellers You Got This and Mad Girl, which were both nominated for British Book Awards. In 2016 she founded Mental Health Mates, now a global peer support network which encourages people with mental health issues to connect and get out of the house. In 2017 she won the MIND Making A Difference Award for her work in changing the perception of mental health in the media. In 2018 she ran the London Marathon in her underwear. In 2020, she won the Journalists' Charity Award from the Society of Editors for mental health campaigning, and in 2023 she was a recipient of the Royal College of Psychiatrists President's Medal for improving the lives of people with mental illness.She lives in South London with her husband and daughter.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Sara on June 16, 2019

1 in 4 people will suffer some form of mental illness during their lifetime. That’s a lot of people. It could be your neighbour, your best friend, maybe even you. It’s an illness that doesn’t discriminate, and can affect anyone at anytime. I should know. In 2016 I had a breakdown from being overwork......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on March 17, 2019

Hold my bookmark - I'm going for a run!......more

Goodreads review by Caroline on January 09, 2019

Great new year read! Another writer bringing to the fore her personal struggles with mental health but with positivity and lots of humour. It’s funny, brutally honest and inspiring.......more

Goodreads review by Shane on February 09, 2023

Not my usual read if I am honest but one of several books I picked up to help motivate me to run regularly. I knew nothing about Ms. Gordon but found myself laughing along the way. This is not a how to run book but a journey chronicled by someone who is also overweight and enjoys a pint or ten. I am......more

Goodreads review by Kate on June 03, 2018

Listened via audible. Really enjoyed this, and a huge bonus because it is narrated by Bryony herself! Also huge bonus as it includes the Prince Harry podcasts! Night little surprise that I wasn’t expecting! Only downside to this is that I wanted it to be longer! I felt it would have benefitted from......more