Fat Boy Thin Man

Fat Boy Thin Man

Michael Prager

Language: English

Pages: 142

ISBN: 0982672004

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


Fat from an early age, the author had an obese adolescence that last into his 30s. Despite having lost more than 130 pounds three times, he weighed 365 in October 1991, when he began accepting that he might be a food addict, and undertaking the practices and treatments designed for alcoholics. "Fat Boy Thin Man" relates what it was like to grow up fat, what it was like to experience reliable improvement in his health and lifestyle, and what about his experience relates to others. The second line of his book assures readers he isn't a guru; he shares what was shared with him by others. "Fat Boy Thin Man" will delight readers who enjoy humorous, engaging, real-life stories of redemption. But it will also serve readers who suffer, or whose loved ones suffer, with obesity that they have tried and failed to resolve repeatedly.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

on this path eternally. I thought people’s admiration — and more importantly, their sharing it with me — would last forever. I thought my willpower, even under the relatively easy circumstances, would last forever. Forever turned out to last about 18 months. Assuredly, it was an excellent time to become more socially acceptable, As the weight receded, I spent a semester working for Harrington in Washington, returned for the flurry of farewell senior-class activities, and did a summer of paid

rehabilitated, in part because the contrast to my former self was so marked. As pleasing as that was, I eventually decided that Hartford was not where I wanted to live the rest of my life. Just a week after that “official” binge — the timing may not be coincidental — I got the offer I’d been courting since June, to work at The Boston Globe. Not only would the Globe be a big step up professionally, but it would be a particular plum for me, who’d delivered the paper as a child. I valued my

couldn’t afford to throw away the $1,800-plus I had invested. ~ I’d been given sick time off to attend. How many times was the company going to approve that, especially when they found out I’d squandered the last one? And even those two super-factors paled next to this: ~ I needed the help! I had been eating out of control for at least six months, and I hadn’t been consistently healthy around food for years before that. I had few treatment options, and even fewer that I was willing to submit

eating, but other issues as well Overeaters Anonymous (OA) World Service Office Box 44020 Rio Rancho, NM 87174-4020 505-891-2664 overeatersanonymous.org Recovery from Food Addiction (RFA) Box 35543 Houston, TX 77235 713-673-2848 RFAworldservice@aol.com Advocates Binge Eating Disorder Association 550M Ritchie Hwy, #271 Severna Park, MD 21146 443-597-0066 bedaonline.com Food Addiction Institute Box 50126 Sarasota, FL 34232-0301 fai@foodaddiction.com Food Addiction

reputation began to crumble. By the time he died — from liver failure in 1978 — his family had been irreparably sundered and his business was a brittle shell whose survival was in doubt. At one time, the plan was for his son-in-law, my father Robert, to succeed him, and as his drinking worsened, the transition had begun, mostly by default. But in the early 1970s, a pig- headed row worsened by Solly’s alcoholic lifestyle abruptly canceled that. Solly never stepped into our house after that, and

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