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Confessions of a Carb Queen: A Memoir | 
| Author: Susan Blech
Creator: Caroline Bock
Publisher: Rodale Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  33 reviews
Sales Rank: 12018
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 6 x 5.9 x 1
ISBN: 1594867763
Dewey Decimal Number: 362.1963980092
EAN: 9781594867767
ASIN: 1594867763
Publication Date: December 26, 2007
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Product Description
When her doctor told her she could suffer a stroke just by walking across the street, Susan Blech knew drastic action was called for. She was only 38 years old, and the scale registered a life-threatening 468 pounds. Rejecting the idea of gastric bypass surgery, Susan relocated to Durham, North Carolina, giving up all that was familiar and $70,000 of her life savings to devote herself to losing weight and getting healthy on the famed Rice Diet. In Confessions of a Carb Queen, Susan Blech speaks candidly about topics no obese person has dared to address: fat sex, eating binges, the lies you tell others, and the lies you tell yourself. She explores the psychological component of overeating and the connection between her own binge eating and the aneurysm that left her mother brain-damaged and paralyzed when Susan was a toddler. Her gripping story—a blend of memoir, advice, and delicious, health-conscious recipes—is a testament to her personal strength and willpower, and will be an inspiration to all who read it.
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 Inspiring, but not for the squeamish... July 18, 2008
This is not a cut and dry book on how to lose weight. Those looking for self help books on weight loss in general should probably look elsewhere. This book is mainly a memoir, and many parts of it are not pretty. If you have a compulsive eating problem or extremely low self esteem, you will be able to relate to it. There is so much guilt and sadness and despair behind feeling out of control of your weight... you can really feel it through Susan's eyes when reading this book.
I bought this book because I am often inspired by weight loss stories. I have lost about 65 pounds (and counting!) since 2003 myself, but I was never as big as Susan Blech was to begin with. I can tell you that I related to feeling unattractive and tired all the time, as well as the comfort found in greasy fast food. If you are squeamish, watch out for the somewhat graphic entries on "fat sex" and the borderline porn-esque descriptions of her marathon fast food binges. After Susan begins treatment for her eating habits and eventually starts to work out and really see herself change, that's when it gets inspiring.
 A Book Only A Current Or Former Fat Person Could Understand! June 30, 2008
Meet Susan Blech, a former 468-pound woman who backed on the pounds despite being healthy and fit as a kid and then a bodybuilding in young adulthood. But, as she says in her book, LIFE happened and the rest was history. Thankfully, at the age of 38, Susan took back her life and lost 250 pounds. But it wasn't before some rather humiliating circumstances in her life woke her up to this grave problem that she had been trying to deal with since the weight came pouring on. Anyone who has ever been obese will relate to these stories because they hit home. Susan moved to Durham, North Carolina to lose the weight...how did that go? This little square book reads like a riveting suspense novel and will entertain, educate, and motivate you to start doing some confessing of your own.
 Nauseating June 20, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
If you want to read about a woman's multiple sexual encounters, descriptions of male genitalia, the woes of on-line dating (and the author's obsession with it), or the many places and ways to have sex, then this book is for you. If you want tips on how to beat carb addition, then go elsewhere. Other than cutting out salt and hiring an exercise coach, this book has nothing of value to offer. It was one BIG disappointment.
 So, Ms. Blech, even though you were fat, you had sex--we get it, already! June 5, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I read every word of this book. I even liked parts. I agree that if you look at the author in the Today show clip, she will lose some credibility; however, my larger problem (no pun intended) is that she is just so over the top in describing her thoughts and her sex life. The repetition is excessive--this book could have been 70 pages shorter if stripped to the story itself. If you are not a hermitic obese person who enjoys reading about phone sex, this may not be the best book for you. I'm not, and it wasn't.
One of the BEST EVER! May 19, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Being a nutritionist, I have read many books that have tried to do what is so successfully done with confessions of a carb queen-- key word- TRIED! This book is for anyone, male or female, who has ever had any sort of struggle with learning how to put themselves first! it's about relying on something outside of yourself, in this case food, as a way of running away from what you really want in life. I could not, could not, could not put it down! Go for it-- you will be so darn glad you did!
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