The Big Skinny: How I Changed My Fattitude [Paperback]

Here’s the skinny: After a lifetime of yo-yo dieting with pills, hypnosis, and ill-informed half-measures, Carol Lay finally shed her excess pounds and kept them off. Now this California cartoonist shares her experiences in a funny, genuine, and eye-popping graphic memoir that tells Carol’s story and shows you how you can do it, too.“[Lay’s] wicked sense of humor brings laughs to her dieting struggles...The Big Skinny is a first.”—Publishers Weekly, cover story“As weight-loss self-help and well-formed sequential-art narrative, The Big Skinny demonstrates that direct and simple can be satisfying approaches that yield admirable results.”—Booklist“It’s one thing to read about a weight loss journey; it’s another thing altogether to see it. Read Carol Lay’s The Big Skinny. You’ll carry in your head the pictures of the sepia junk-food and the Carmen Miranda whole-food bodies every time you think about eating. Ms. Lay brings a potent, funny, step-by-brutally-honest-step to the canon of weight loss sagas.”—Frances Kuffel, author of Passing for Thin: Losing Half My Weight and Finding Myself"The Big Skinny is the ultimate anti-diet book. With wit and artistic talent Lay delivers rational reasons why diets never last and offers healthy solutions to the all-too-common problem of obesity."—Stephanie Klein, author of Moose: A Memoir of Fat Camp"Exploding with courage, kindness, and hilarity, The Big Skinny just might reveal a new law of physics: an ever-expanding mind can equal a shrinking waistline."—Marian Henley, author of The Shiniest Jewel: A Family Love Stl4