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Weight, Sex, and Marriage: A Delicate Balance

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Wonderful! This book finally explains the 'how' and 'why' of weight gain. Discussing everything from the struggle to failures, success to acceptance, the authors guide us to a better understanding of our options and choices. Explaining why we gain, and why we fail at our weight loss attempts, they take us through a personal self-discovery to lead us to our goals; be they weight loss or acceptance of our physical selves. Well-written with many examples of women from all walks of life. Strangely, the best thing I got out of this book was NOT hope; it was better than hope - self-love.

This book presents case studies of married women who gained weight. It even has a story of a woman who lost weight (yes really) and then faced with marital difficulties, put the weight back on !

With overweight and obese women so prevalent today in the United States, this book is a start at looking at the psychology behind this phenomenon as relates to married women.

I wish the authors had gone further with their premise and looked a tiny bit at history and sociology as well. It would be fun to see if the authors believe that full-figured women are going to actually end up being in vogue, as they are today in Africa and Polynesia, or were during the Renaissance. What is behind the weight epidemic in our country ... high-fructose corn syrup? Laziness? Relying on technology? A new beauty norm? An informal signal of marriage status?

This is an intriguing topic well deserving of a followup from the authors.

This book was very helpful in my understanding of why I eat sometimes when I am not legitimately hungry. There are many underlying reasons that the book brought out. Things I never would have thought of, and analyzed on my own. I highly recommend this book to any woman who wants to find out why she can't stick to a diet, or sabotages herself all the time. Weight affects so many aspects of our lives (most importantly our self worth, and our mental and physical health). I do not want to be morbidly overweight in my older years, so I am trying to get a handle on my weight problem and my eating now, before I turn 40. I want to grow old gracefully! This book was a valuable asset.