overweight women

A memoir of the author's lifelong struggles with obesity and her difficult childhood, and her path toward finding balance and learning to love herself.

Addresses the obesity epidemic in the African-American community, and uses personal stories and medical research to offer African-American helpful advice on the best ways to lose weight.

Provides a step-by-step plan for breaking self-destructive cycles and creating a healthy self-image, and offers strategies on how to overcome relationship issues and build self-esteem.

Liz Dunn, plain, overweight, and crabby, has a keen eye for observation and contemplation, but her life is turned upside when she receives a phone call from a Vancouver hospital and a stranger takes an intimate place in her life.

Actress Delta Burke discusses the effects of her much-publicized weight gain on her self-esteem and career, and offers practical advice and information about what she has learned about fashion, make-up, hairstyle, and self-acceptance.

Examines some of the problems of the modern obsession with weight, including undernutrition, size prejudice, and industry manipulation; provides a model for preventing eating and weight problems before they happen; and affirms the right to health at any size.

Three best friends make a pact to transform themselves into the glamorous women they have always wanted to be, but soon learn that beauty and glamour don't always equal happiness.

Meet June Parker. She works for L.A. Rideshare, a pro-carpooling agency, adores her rent-stabilized apartment in Santa Monica, and struggles with losing a few pesky pounds. June's life is about to change. After a turn of events involving Weight Watchers, a taco soup recipe, and a car accident in which her passenger, Marissa, dies, June finds herself in possession of a list Marissa has written: "20 things to do by my 25th birthday." Even though they barely knew each other, June is compelled--by both guilt and a desire to set things right--to finish the list for Marissa. The tasks before her range from inspiring (run a 5k, watch a sunrise) to daring (go braless) to near impossible (change someone's life). As fun-filled as the list must have been for Marissa, it's not going to be easy for June, who's spent a lifetime falling short. But challenging though it will be, June is determined to make Marissa's dreams come to, and as she races to achieve each goal before the deadline, she learns more about her own dreams than she ever bargained for.