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And Satisfying My Hunger For Life Without Opening The Fridge
Free Press
October 2009
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Featuring: Valerie Bertinelli
288 pages
ISBN: 1439141630
EAN: 9781439141632
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Welcome back to chez Bertinelli, where life is as crazy and
comical as ever. In revealing talks with her longtime
boyfriend, Tom, Valerie gets even more personal about her
inner worries: her maternal anxieties about her son, Wolfie
(he's fallen in love and, as she writes, "getting your sex
talk from Eddie Van Halen wasn't recommended in any of the
parenting books I read"); the challenges of dealing with a
blended family; her mother's own new diet adventure; and a
craving for a deeper relationship with a Higher Power ("I
have experienced days of inner peace and connectedness with
a larger spirit -- twice," she writes. "Why not more
often?"). And as if these everyday challenges weren't
enough, Valerie is work-ing to maintain her own very public
weight loss. She even gets to thinking she might kick it up
a notch, shed more weight and get so buff she can wear a
bikini -- in public. In this new, inspiring memoir from
the beloved actress and author of the bestseller Losing
It, Valerie tells the story of what happens after
you change your life. It's not all peaches and cream, or
even non-fat yogurt. In Finding It, Valerie
comes face-to-face with hard questions of family, faith, and
beachwear, and realizes that she's hungering for another
transfor-mation -- to become better, not just thinner.
Forget the scale; the real change is happening inside, and
Valerie realizes that this is the part of dieting that no
one ever talks about -- the reality of keeping the pounds
off. Dieting fixes one problem, she discovers, but to
maintain that weight loss, she has to work on everything
else -- all the reasons she got fat in the first place.Warm
and friendly, honest and self-aware -- like a talk with your
BFF -- Finding It tells of the common worries and
frustrations, the funny and fabulous moments in Valerie's
publicly private life. Humorous and humble, it is also the
emotional story of family and the deep bonds and patterns
that persist through generations: for as Valerie transitions
to her latest role of motherhood with an increasingly
independent son, she connects with her own mother in a
profound new way. With the same winning wit and candor
that touched several generations of fans in Losing
It, Finding It is an optimistic story for trying
times. It's about believing in love and happiness, having
faith that both are possible, and finding out that God does
want you to enjoy life's desserts -- even when you're on a diet.
Comments
1 comment posted.
Re: Finding It
As someone who struggles to keep lost weight off, I'm open to ideas on how to do that. This sounds like such an interesting read! I've added to my wish list (which just keeps growing these days..)
(Karen Cherubino 4:10pm March 10, 2011)
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