This Is Big: How the Founder of Weight Watchers Changed the World -- And Me

Marisa Meltzer

This Is Big: How the Founder of Weight Watchers Changed the World -- And Me
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Little Brown and Company
Country
United States
Published
14 April 2020
Pages
304
ISBN
9780316414005

This Is Big: How the Founder of Weight Watchers Changed the World – And Me

Marisa Meltzer

From a contributor to The Cut, one of Vogue’s most anticipated books bravely and honestly (Busy Philipps) talks about weight loss and sheds a light on Weight Watchers founder Jean Nidetch: a triumphant chronicle (New York Times). Marisa Meltzer began her first diet at the age of five. Growing up an indoors-loving child in Northern California, she learned from an early age that weight was the one part of her life she could neither change nor even really understand.

Fast forward nearly four decades. Marisa, also a contributor to the New Yorker and the New York Times, comes across an obituary for Jean Nidetch, the Queens, New York housewife who founded Weight Watchers in 1963. Weaving Jean’s incredible story as weight loss maven and pathbreaking entrepreneur with Marisa’s own journey through Weight Watchers, she chronicles the deep parallels, and enduring frustrations, in each woman’s decades-long efforts to lose weight and keep it off. The result is funny, unexpected, and unforgettable: a testament to how transformation goes far beyond a number on the scale.

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