The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl is the true story of how Shauna Reid lost half her body weight. Full of adventure, romance and chocolate, the book goes beyond the blog and spans seven years and seven jean sizes.
Inspiring, uplifting and entertaining, The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl has even caused readers to blow bubbles of snot from laughter! It's also been named No. 1 on Marie Claire magazine's list of the Top Ten Diet Books.
Is it a memoir? Is it a diet book? Is it chick lit?
It's a little bit of all three. But Dietgirl is different from the usual diet book. There's nobody telling you what to do -- instead I tell you how I did it, with warts-and-all honesty and humour about the ups and downs of busting the lard and trying to find peace with all my lumpy bits. Or as the blurb-writing folks say on the cover, it is 'a hilarious and heartwarming tale of a real-life superhero who battled the bulge and won.'
Here's the synopsis from the back of the book:
In January 2001 Shauna Reid was twenty-three years old and twenty-five stone. Determined to turn her life around, she created the hugely successful weblog. The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl and, hiding behind her Lycra-clad roly-poly alter-ego, her transformation from couch potato to svelte goddess began.
Today, 8,000 miles, seven years and twelve-and-a-half stone later, the gloriously gorgeous Shauna is literally half the woman she used to be.In turn hysterically funny and heart-wrenchingly honest, The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl follows the twists and turns of Shauna's lard-busting adventure as she curbs the calories and learns to love the gym. There are travel tales from Red Square to Reykjavik, plus romance and intrigue as she meets the man of her dreams during a pub quiz in Edinburgh. As her UK visa rapidly runs out, will she be deported back to Australia or will love triumph?
Entertaining and action-packed, this is the uplifting true story of a young woman who defeated her demons and conquered her cravings to become a weight-loss superhero to inspire us all.
