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Barcode30293101831480
LocationClark County
Call NoB Melt
TitleThis is big : how the founder of Weight Watchers changed the world -- and me / Marisa Meltzer.
AuthorMeltzer, Marisa. author.
CollectionNF Biography
Total Circ1
NumReserves0
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LocationBarcodeCall NoCreated OnIssue NameCirc StatusTemp Loc
Clark County30293101831480B Melt7/8/2020 AvailableClark County

Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 9780316414005 (hardcover)
International Standard Book Number 031641400X (hardcover)
International Standard Book Number 9780316413992 (ebook)
Personal Name Meltzer, Marisa. author.
Title Statement This is big : how the founder of Weight Watchers changed the world -- and me / Marisa Meltzer.
Edition Statement First edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2020.
Physical Description xi, 290 pages ; 25 cm.
Formatted Contents Note I was even a fat child -- Is there a typical fat girl? -- Fat is just who I am -- Sharing is on a voluntary basis -- We all want miracles -- When I fall, I fall hard -- What is her secret? -- What does being thin mean? -- The message is, I'm one of you -- She'd had enough after one bite -- Thin power -- You're visiting the dark side -- I'm a pusher -- They'll all be gone by Valentine's Day -- Living off the fat of the land -- He broke the social contract -- Eat, eat -- but not too much -- Healthy busywork -- Yes, she's still thin -- An inherent distrust of gurus -- But I'm in control of the fork -- This tastes sad -- Losing weight can be magic -- That's progress for me.
Summary, Etc. Marisa Meltzer began her first diet at the age of five. Growing up an indoors-loving child in Northern California, she learned from an early age that weight was the one part of her life she could neither change nor even really understand. Fast forward nearly four decades. Marisa, also a contributor to the New Yorker and the New York Times, comes across an obituary for Jean Nidetch, the Queens, New York housewife who founded Weight Watchers in 1963. Weaving Jean's incredible story as weight loss maven and pathbreaking entrepreneur with Marisa's own journey through Weight Watchers, she chronicles the deep parallels, and enduring frustrations, in each woman's decades-long efforts to lose weight and keep it off. The result is funny, unexpected, and unforgettable: a testament to how transformation goes far beyond a number on the scale.
Subject-Personal Name Nidetch, Jean.
Subject-Personal Name Meltzer, Marisa, 1977-
Subject-Corporate Name Weight Watchers International.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Businesswomen United States Biography.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Overweight persons Biography.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Weight, Loss.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Diet, Reducing.
Index Term-Genre/Form Autobiographies.
Index Term-Genre/Form Biographies.

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