Results Not Typical: A Novel by Catherine Ryan Howard is free at Amazon
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Book Description:
In 2002 her teenage metabolism finally closed up shop, forcing her to join WeightWatchers where she lost 20lbs in three months – and then gained 30lbs in the three months after that. Thus her adventures in yo-yo dieting began. Since then she has tried calorie counting, smoothies, smoking, WeightWatchers again, Atkins, The Zone, South Beach, Dr. Phil, Bob Greene and Dr. Oz (collectively known as Oprah’s Friends, Inc.), WeightWatchers for a third time, a personal trainer, Alan Carr’s THE EASY WAY TO LOSE WEIGHT (it wasn’t), Paul McKenna’s I CAN MAKE YOU THIN (he couldn’t) and WeightWatchers online when showing up to yet another registration was too humiliating to bear.
Finally Catherine resorted to joining a very scary cult-like organization that cost a small fortune, forbade her from eating 99% of all food and tried to brainwash her into thinking decaf coffee was a worthwhile thing, all under the guise of ‘behavior modification therapy’. She didn’t lose any weight and she almost killed someone (her clinic appointed “health consultant”, if you were wondering), but she did get an idea for a novel...