Dec 30
“ANGRY FAT GIRLS is about women, weight loss, body image, and what did and did not learn growing up fat, and why losing weight — and keeping it off — is so hard. This is not Valerie Bertinelli in a bikini, promising that is she can do it, you can; this is about ’serial relapsers’ and why my cat knows how to eat ice cream of a spoon. This book is honest, true, and occasionally very funny.”
- Cheryl Peck, author of FAT GIRLS AND LAWN CHAIRS
Dec 30
“A wake-up call to anyone who believes that weight management is a quick and easy feat. It’s not. And Kuffel’s greatest gift is a blast of hopeful reality for any brave reader ready to take herself on and honestly face her own food and weight demons.”
- Pamela Peeke, MD, MPH, FACP, Chief Medical Correspondent for Discovery Health Channel and author of FIGHT FAT AFTER FORTY
Dec 24
If you’ve ever lost weight and gained it back, you can likely relate to Angry Fat Girls: 5 Women, 500 Pounds and a Year of Losing It . . . Again (Berkley Hardcover, $23.95), by Frances Kuffel. She is a New York-based short story and book author and columnist who transformed her life by losing 188 pounds, documenting it in a previous book, “Passing for Thin.” But she gained more than half the weight back. In this book, she shares her story and those of four women, who found each other over the Internet, facing similar situations. It’s a funny, painfully honest memoir as these women diet, lose and gain and struggle to find their definition of freedom.
“Another in-your-face title is ANGRY FAT GIRLS: 5 Women, 500 Pounds, and a Year of Losing It…Again by Frances Kuffel. Kuffel wrote Passing for Thin, a memoir about a midlife weight loss of 188 pounds, only to begin regaining the weight before the book was even published. Angry Fat Girls grew out a blog she wrote with four other women in the same situation. The title may be sassy, and Kuffel does have a witty way with words, but the text itself is moving and honest.”
- from “You Kiss Your Nutritionist with that Mouth,” PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, December 7, 2009
Sep 10
“ANGRY FAT GIRLS: 5 Women, 500 Pounds and a Year of Losing It…Again is a funny, painfully honest memoir about these five women as they diet and eat, lose and gain, and struggle to find their individual definition of freedom along the way…Frances, Lindsay, Katie, Mimi, and Wendy dub themselves the Angry Fat Girlz and ask themselves — and each other — the difficult questions: Who am I inside all this weight? How much am I allowed to enjoy myself, and how much do I have to deny myself? What could I do if I was thin? In ANGRY FAT GIRLS, Frances Kuffel shares their story and the struggle to find their best selves along the way…This is the book for anyone who has ever lost it…only to gain back it again.”
- DailyVenusDiva, September 10, 2009
PASSING FOR THIN: LOSING HALF MY WEIGHT AND FINDING MY SELF (Broadway, 2004).
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