How I Won a 42 - Year Battle With Obesity
It is the one thing found at the intersection of race, culture, identity, status, education, and economics-food.
If you are...
Exhausted from years of losing weight only to gain it, and then some, all back...
Successful in your professional life, but a failure when it comes to managing your weight...
Powerless over work stress, life stress and emotional overeating...
Embarrassed by the amount of money and time you ha. - Michelle Petties
Leaving Large is for you.
Presenting the truth in my Food Stories is my gift to anyone who is battle weary.
The Food Stories in my memoir hold the secrets to Leaving those statistics in the dust.
This book is needed now, for the ever-rising number of Black women facing health crises-often weight-related, and for the nearly 70% of Americans who are overweight or obese.
I am a Black woman of a certain age, and for 42 years, I was in a fight for my emotional, physical, and spiritual life - unconsciously eating for all the wrong reasons, battling subconscious Food Stories, looking to food for joy, entertainment, companionship, pleasure, comfort, salvation, and status, using food to mask stress and daily discomforts that I never allowed myself to feel.
I was morbidly obese, once tipping the scale at 260 plus pounds.
My heart breaks for who I used to be.
My heart breaks for the four out five African American women who are either overweight or obese.
In Leaving Large: The Stories of a Food Addict, she takes you deep inside her personal struggles with food addiction and yo-yo dieting with insight, candor, and wisdom.
By tapping into the power of her own Food Stories, Michelle unlocked and debunked the untruths she carried around for decades and discovered the underlying truths about the mind, body, and food connection.
After gaining and losing over 700 pounds, Michelle finally discovered the secret to gaining the body she long dreamed of was locked in the stories (termed Food Stories) of why she ate what she ate.
And learned to make peace between her mind, body and eating.
As a result of uncovering and understanding her Food Stories, Michelle untangled long held and mistaken beliefs around food and hunger.
In Leaving Large: The Stories of a Food Addict, Michelle Petties shares a collection of personal essays that chronicle her triumph over 42 years of obesity and ill-health.
It\'s always about the story behind the food.
The truth is: It\'s never about the food.
How I Won a 42 - Year Battle With Obesity
It is the one thing found at the intersection of race, culture, identity, status, education, and economics-food
