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Read My Hips: How I Learned To Love My Body, Ditch Dieting, And Live Large (2011)

by Kim Brittingham(Favorite Author)

3.57 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0307464385 (ISBN13: 9780307464385)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Three Rivers Press

review 1: p. 66 (Are you) putting off life until thinness?p.86 I make better food choices because I've come to value my experience of life more than how I appear in this life, or what size my body is at any given point.p. 105 Strutting. Who knew? It's psychological shape wear.p.123 Why indulge in the preposterous idea that I am unloveable because my stomach, my arms, my ass, my thighs, are not what a shallow money-driven media tells me they should be?p. 131 (Don't be) completely appearance focused. Success is not defined by how my body looks. Like so many other trainers, I don't think he believed physical fitness could be achieved until a body not only looked a certain way but also weighed a certain weight.p. 140 It mattered more how I felt, than how someone else felt about me.p. 14... more7 Why always"not yet'? Do flowers in spring say "not yet"? Norman Douglasp. 162 I remain dismayed that as a young girl I sought so much validation from adolescent boys; that I allowed my self worth to be measured by the attention they gave me.p. 163 U I think most of us long for romantic and sexual interaction, and there's certainly nothing wrong with that. It's human nature to want love and be loved. I just feel sad that so many girls and women, fat or thin, look to their individual appeal as sexual beings for a sense of happiness, importance and completeness. We're already complete and important. p. 214 There were times in my past when I lived with a constant concern about the conclusions other people were coming to, and the judgements they were making about my appearance. In my preoccupation, I missed so much.
review 2: Overweight author explains at some length how she's ok with that and has learned to accept herself as is. Describes horribly mean things people say to her about her weight and have since she was a kid. Overall messages of living your life the way you want to NOW rather than waiting until you lose weight, of being fun and outgoing and cheerful rather than hanging back and avoiding people because you assume they'll reject you for being fat, etc. came through well.Beyond that, readability was highest when she described actual events or periods from her life, such as when she worked for a time pushing diet plans and the associated prepackaged foods for overweight people, eventually concluding it was a scam that didn't help anybody and therefore quitting. There are numerous other chapters in which nothing is really happening except the main theme of self-acceptance being repeated a lot. less

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