'I love food. Even worse, I love junk food. If lard could be double deep-fried I would eat it. If I could deep-fry headache pills I would. So it's no wonder I'm now the size of a small yet economically viable continent...' When A. J. Rochester is selected to feature in a television series on obesity, she is at first appalled & then resolved. At 109 kilos (17 stone), she knows she needs to lose weight
- not because she yearns to become a twiglet but so she can keep up with her little boy & turn her life around at last. But after years of fighting a losing battle with the flab, A. J. knows she needs a miracle. So she decides to ditch the 'quick-fix' diets & the faddy exercise equipment & try a new approach
- one that involves discovering her own inner strengths. It may not be easy
- but it pays off. Confessions of a Reformed Dieter charts the highs, lows & plateaus of A. J.'s incredible journey, from overcoming an early setback
- waking up in hospital with a broken leg after a drunken binge
- to the triumph of shedding the first, & last, kilo.