The Resource The elephant in the room : one fat man's quest to get smaller in a growing America, Tommy Tomlinson
The elephant in the room : one fat man's quest to get smaller in a growing America, Tommy Tomlinson
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The item The elephant in the room : one fat man's quest to get smaller in a growing America, Tommy Tomlinson represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Jacksonville Public Library.This item is available to borrow from 10 library branches.
Resource Information
The item The elephant in the room : one fat man's quest to get smaller in a growing America, Tommy Tomlinson represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Jacksonville Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 10 library branches.
- Summary
- "So begins The Elephant in the Room, Tommy Tomlinson's remarkably intimate and insightful memoir of his life as a fat man. When he was almost fifty years old, Tomlinson weighed an astonishing--and dangerous--460 pounds, at risk for heart disease, diabetes, and stroke, unable to climb a flight of stairs without having to catch his breath, or travel on an airplane without buying two seats. Raised in a family that loved food, he had been aware of the problem for years, seeing doctors and trying diets from the time he was a preteen. But nothing worked, and every time he tried to make a change, it didn't go the way he planned--in fact, he wasn't sure that he really wanted to change. In The Elephant in the Room, Tomlinson chronicles his lifelong battle with weight in a voice that combines the urgency of Roxane Gay's Hunger with the intimacy of Rick Bragg's All Over but the Shoutin'. He also hits the road to meet other members of the plus-sized tribe in an attempt to understand how, as a nation, we got to this point. From buying a FitBit and setting exercise goals to contemplating the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas, America's "capital of food porn, " and modifying his own diet, Tomlinson brings us along on a candid and sometimes brutal look at the everyday experience of being constantly aware of your size. Over the course of the book, he confronts these issues head-on and chronicles the practical steps he has to take--big and small--to lose weight by the end. Affecting and searingly honest, The Elephant in the Room is a powerful memoir that will resonate with anyone who has grappled with addiction, shame, or self-consciousness. It is also a literary triumph that will stay with readers long after the last page."--Pages [2-3] of cover
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Extent
- viii, 244 pages
- Isbn
- 9781501111617
- Label
- The elephant in the room : one fat man's quest to get smaller in a growing America
- Title
- The elephant in the room
- Title remainder
- one fat man's quest to get smaller in a growing America
- Statement of responsibility
- Tommy Tomlinson
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "So begins The Elephant in the Room, Tommy Tomlinson's remarkably intimate and insightful memoir of his life as a fat man. When he was almost fifty years old, Tomlinson weighed an astonishing--and dangerous--460 pounds, at risk for heart disease, diabetes, and stroke, unable to climb a flight of stairs without having to catch his breath, or travel on an airplane without buying two seats. Raised in a family that loved food, he had been aware of the problem for years, seeing doctors and trying diets from the time he was a preteen. But nothing worked, and every time he tried to make a change, it didn't go the way he planned--in fact, he wasn't sure that he really wanted to change. In The Elephant in the Room, Tomlinson chronicles his lifelong battle with weight in a voice that combines the urgency of Roxane Gay's Hunger with the intimacy of Rick Bragg's All Over but the Shoutin'. He also hits the road to meet other members of the plus-sized tribe in an attempt to understand how, as a nation, we got to this point. From buying a FitBit and setting exercise goals to contemplating the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas, America's "capital of food porn, " and modifying his own diet, Tomlinson brings us along on a candid and sometimes brutal look at the everyday experience of being constantly aware of your size. Over the course of the book, he confronts these issues head-on and chronicles the practical steps he has to take--big and small--to lose weight by the end. Affecting and searingly honest, The Elephant in the Room is a powerful memoir that will resonate with anyone who has grappled with addiction, shame, or self-consciousness. It is also a literary triumph that will stay with readers long after the last page."--Pages [2-3] of cover
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- YDX
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Tomlinson, Tommy
- Dewey number
- 306.4/613
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- RC552.O25
- LC item number
- T66 2019
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Obesity
- Obesity
- Body image
- Lifestyles
- Habit breaking
- Label
- The elephant in the room : one fat man's quest to get smaller in a growing America, Tommy Tomlinson
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1039355912
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Extent
- viii, 244 pages
- Isbn
- 9781501111617
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- 1302644
- (Sirsi) o1039355912
- (OCoLC)1039355912
- Label
- The elephant in the room : one fat man's quest to get smaller in a growing America, Tommy Tomlinson
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1039355912
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Extent
- viii, 244 pages
- Isbn
- 9781501111617
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- 1302644
- (Sirsi) o1039355912
- (OCoLC)1039355912
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