When her doctor told her she could suffer a stroke just by walking across the street, Susan Blech knew drastic action was called for. She was only 38 years old, and the scale registered a life-threatening 468 pounds. Rejecting the idea of gastric bypass surgery, Susan relocated to Durham, North Carolina, giving up all that was familiar and $70,000 of her life savings to devote herself to losing weight and getting healthy on the famed Rice Diet. In...
Meet Susan Blech, a former 468-pound woman who backed on the pounds despite being healthy and fit as a kid and then a bodybuilding in young adulthood. But, as she says in her book, LIFE happened and the rest was history. Thankfully, at the age of 38, Susan took back her life and lost 250 pounds. But it wasn't before some rather humiliating circumstances in her life woke her up to this grave problem that she had been trying...
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Wow, I was just blown away by the bravery of Ms. Blech! This book was as addictive as the donut on the cover! I'm not a fan of self-help books - in fact, I hate them, so this story was just so fun and surprising to read. It made laugh and cry - and shocked the hell out of me! Ms. Blech lays it all out like no one has before. She takes you into her mind and through her struggle in a way I know will always stay with me...
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Thank God Susan has the courage to be so blunt and honest in this compelling memoir about finding her way back to her life and body after being completely detached and lost. I could relate to so very very much that she wrote: I drove myself from St. Louis to Durham to stay the month of June at the Duke Diet and Fitness Center and then returned for two weeks in August and two more weeks in November. When I weighed in on June...
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