How to Be a Reasonably Thin Teenage Girl: Without Starving, Losing Your Friends, or Running Away from Home - Hardcover

Lukes, Bonnie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0689312695 ISBN 13: 9780689312694

Publisher: Atheneum, 1986

Synopsis

Presents an approach to losing weight that emphasizes the development of long-term good eating habits, with advice on dealing with peers and family, and setting realistic goals

About this title

From School Library Journal:

Grade 7 Up A reasonably thin, reasonably entertaining book on calorie counting and weight control. A veteran of the battle of the bulge herself, Lukes emphasizes setting attainable and realistic goals that can be maintained. Her program involves gradually reducing caloric intake as weight is lost, combined with moderate exercise. Her approach is safe, slow, and nutritionally balanceddefinitely not a quick fix. Her manner is humorous and upbeat, encouraging her readers and giving hints for dealing with failure, opposition, and pitfalls. Appendixes include an incomplete list of foods and their calories. The last few chapters are a hodge-podge of diet trivia and tips that didn't fit neatly into the first part of the book, which clearly outlines Lukes' plan. How to Be. . . is somewhat skimpy, but it will serve to encourage and motivate girls with weight problems. For more complete information, try Sara Gilbert's Fat Free (Macmillan, 1975; o.p.) and Barbara Edelstein's The Woman Doctor's Diet for Teen-Age Girls (Prentice-Hall, 1980). Joyce Adams Burner, formerly at Spring Hill Middle School, Kans.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Publishers Weekly:

It is always reassuring for young readers to know that the writer shares or has shared a similar problem. Lukes, an "ex-fatty," has been through all the diets and tells her readers that few actually work. Her advice is often amusing ("You can't eat your cake and have it too, because it tends to settle around the hips"), and she shows readers how to cope with nondieting family and friends. The author's advice is sensible and sound in most instances, but she does not tell readers about the need for medical approval before changing one's eating habits. And she glosses over the benefits of exercise (" . . . old standbys such as sit-ups and leg raises . . . since I don't do them, I don't have anything to tell you about them"). Lukes's book would have been more beneficial to readers if meal plans and a more extensive calorie chart had been provided.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Atheneum
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0689312695
• ISBN 13: 9780689312694
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 86