
The Elephant in the Room
One Fat Man's Quest to Get Smaller in a Growing America
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In the tradition of Roxane Gay’s Hunger, a searing, honest, and candid exploration of what it’s like to live as a fat man, from acclaimed journalist Tommy Tomlinson, who decided he had to change his life as he neared the age of 50 weighing in at 460 pounds.
When he was almost 50 years old, Tommy Tomlinson weighed an astonishing - and dangerous - 460 pounds, at risk for heart disease, diabetes, and stroke, unable to climb a flight of stairs without having to catch his breath or travel on an airplane without buying two seats. Raised in a family that loved food, he had been aware of the problem for years, seeing doctors and trying diets from the time he was a preteen. But nothing worked, and every time he tried to make a change, it didn’t go the way he planned - in fact, he wasn’t sure he really wanted to change.
He was only one of millions of Americans struggling with weight, body image, and a relationship with food that puts them at major risk. Intimate and insightful, The Elephant in the Room is Tomlinson’s chronicle of meeting those people, taking the first steps toward health, and trying to understand how, as a nation, we got to this point. From buying a Fitbit and setting an exercise goal to contemplating the Heart Attack Grill, America’s “capital of food porn”, and modifying his own diet, Tomlinson brings us along on an unforgettable journey of self-discovery that is a candid and sometimes brutal look at the everyday experience of being constantly aware of your size. Over the course of the audiobook, he confronts these issues head-on and chronicles the practical steps he has to take - big and small - to lose weight by the end.
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In Cooking as Fast as I Can, Cat Cora reveals, for the first time, coming-of-age experiences from early childhood sexual abuse to the realities of life as a lesbian in the Deep South. She shares how she found her passion in the kitchen and went on to attend the prestigious Culinary Institute of America and apprentice under Michelin-star chefs in France. After her big break as a cohost on the Food Network's Melting Pot, Cat broke barriers by becoming the first-ever female Iron Chef.
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Great listen for a chef
- De Nikki en 04-10-24
De: Cat Cora
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There's Nothing in This Book That I Meant to Say
- De: Paula Poundstone
- Narrado por: Paula Poundstone
- Duración: 5 h y 59 m
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What do the lives of Lincoln, Helen Keller, Joan of Arc, and other historical figures have in common with Paula Poundstone? In the hands of this wryly observant and self-deprecating comedian, the answer is outrageously funny and unexpectedly touching. Poundstone compares her crazy life to theirs, as she holds forth on her children, her career, and the time in her life when it appeared she would lose them both.
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- De Evelyn en 02-11-07
De: Paula Poundstone
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Jelly Belly
- De: Robert Kimmel Smith
- Narrado por: Danny Gerard
- Duración: 2 h y 57 m
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It's tough for 11-year-old Ned to stop eating. At four-feet-eight inches tall he weighs one 109 pounds, and he keeps growing - wider. When his parents send him to a summer diet camp, he and his bunkmates can't quite give up their old habits. The joys of candy and doughnuts are so appealing that "cheating" adventures seems to be the only answer. The problem, of course, is how to lose weight and keep eating sweets.
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This Might Get a Little Heavy
- A Memoir
- De: Ralphie May, Nils Parker
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman
- Duración: 8 h y 36 m
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There was a time when Ralphie May was one of the biggest stand-up comedians in the country, both by ticket sales and by tonnage. While some things changed - Ralphie lost half his body weight - others did not: He will be remembered as one of the most successful comics of his time. Completed just months before his untimely passing, in This Might Get a Little Heavy, Ralphie takes listeners on a behind-the-scenes tour of his life and career, one that winds across the country, over obstacles, beyond heartbreak, and through the golden age of stand-up.
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brilliant and tragic
- De Timothy Trujillo en 08-12-18
De: Ralphie May, y otros
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May We Be Forgiven
- De: A. M. Homes
- Narrado por: Andy Paris
- Duración: 20 h y 43 m
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May We Be Forgiven, a darkly comic novel of 21st-century domestic life, stars Harold Silver, a historian who's always been jealous of his successful brother, George. But when the hot-tempered George is institutionalized for committing a violent act, Harold finds himself comforting his brother's wife and children. What follows is a scathing examination of a family so fractured it may never be whole again.
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Give this one a try!
- De JWB en 02-13-13
De: A. M. Homes
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What Doesn't Kill You
- De: Virginia DeBerry, Donna Grant
- Narrado por: Virginia DeBerry, Donna Grant
- Duración: 10 h y 23 m
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What Doesn't Kill You is the story of how Thomasina Hodges, a.k.a. Tee, loses her job and finds herself. Tee's evolution after her sudden and unexpected outplacement, is loosely based on the stages of grief - denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance, relinquishing, readjusting, and reinvesting. For Tee, losing her job is like a death, but with time, and some bumps, bruises and a new attitude, she comes out on the other side, having reassessed what's important in her life.
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Excellent story
- De Doris Greene en 04-11-24
De: Virginia DeBerry, y otros
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In the Water They Can't See You Cry
- A Memoir
- De: Amanda Beard, Rebecca Paley
- Narrado por: Tavia Gilbert
- Duración: 8 h y 10 m
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At the tender age of 14, Amanda Beard walked onto the pool deck at the Atlanta Olympics carrying her teddy bear, Harold, and left with two silvers and a gold medal. She competed in three more Olympic games, winning a total of seven medals, and enjoyed a lucrative modeling career on the side. At one point, she was the most downloaded female athlete on the Internet. Yet despite her astonishing career and sex-symbol status, Amanda felt unworthy of all her success. Unaware that she was suffering from clinical depression, she hid the pain beneath a megawatt smile.
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I applaud Amanda - but her editor's were lame
- De Heather en 03-10-15
De: Amanda Beard, y otros
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Housebroken
- Admissions of an Untidy Life
- De: Laurie Notaro
- Narrado por: Laurie Notaro
- Duración: 6 h y 12 m
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Number-one New York Times best-selling author Laurie Notaro isn't exactly a domestic goddess - unless that means she fully embraces her genetic hoarding predisposition, sneaks peeks at her husband's daily journal, or has made a list of the people she wants on her Apocalypse Survival team (her husband's not on it). Notaro chronicles her chronic misfortune in the domestic arts, including cooking, cleaning, and putting on Spanx while sweaty (which should technically qualify as an Olympic sport).
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Wonderful
- De Carlie en 07-28-16
De: Laurie Notaro
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Goodbye, Vitamin
- A Novel
- De: Rachel Khong
- Narrado por: Therese Plummer
- Duración: 4 h y 59 m
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Freshly disengaged from her fiancé and feeling that life has not turned out quite the way she planned, 30-year-old Ruth quits her job, leaves town, and arrives at her parents' home to find that situation more complicated than she'd realized. Her father, a prominent history professor, is losing his memory and is only erratically lucid. Ruth's mother, meanwhile, is lucidly erratic.
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Hello Sweet Sweet Book
- De Syd Young en 08-06-17
De: Rachel Khong
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Andy Rooney
- 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit
- De: Andy Rooney
- Narrado por: J. Paul Guimont
- Duración: 10 h y 6 m
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Chairs. Neat people. Ugliness. War. Over six decades of intrepid reporting and elegant essays, Andy Rooney has proven a shrewd cultural analyst. Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit brings together the best of more than a half-century of work (including long-out-of-print pieces from his early years) in an unforgettable celebration of one of America’s funniest men. Like Mark Twain, Finley Peter Dunne (Mister Dooley) and Will Rogers, Andy Rooney is a classic chronicler of America, a writer for the ages.
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A good style
- De Denise L. Holtz en 11-04-16
De: Andy Rooney
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Hey Mom
- De: Louie Anderson
- Narrado por: Louie Anderson
- Duración: 6 h y 1 m
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Louie Anderson has been channeling his beloved mom in his iconic stand-up comedy for decades - but she passed away before getting to see him reach new heights with his breakout role. Hey Mom is Louie's way of catching Ora Zella Anderson up on everything that has been going on in his life, including his continued struggles with food and family, but also how so much has changed for the better. He also has plenty of laugh-out-loud stories about his incredibly resilient mother and his 10 siblings, as well as observations on the absurdities of life.
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I love Louie even more now
- De Candace en 05-02-18
De: Louie Anderson
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If I am Missing or Dead
- A Sister's Story of Love, Murder, and Liberation
- De: Janine Latus
- Narrado por: Shelly Frasier
- Duración: 8 h y 53 m
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In April 2002, Janine Latus' youngest sister, Amy, wrote a note and taped it to the inside of her desk drawer. "Today Ron Ball and I are romantically involved", it read, "but I fear I have placed myself at risk in a variety of ways. Based on his criminal past, writing this out just seems like the smart thing to do. If I am missing or dead this obviously has not protected me...."
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All About Janine
- De Ellen en 07-02-07
De: Janine Latus
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Labor Day
- De: Joyce Maynard
- Narrado por: Wilson Bethel
- Duración: 6 h y 15 m
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In a manner evoking Ian McEwan's Atonement and Nick Hornby's About a Boy, acclaimed author Joyce Maynard weaves a beautiful, poignant tale of love, sex, adolescence, and devastating treachery as seen through the eyes of a young teenage boy - and the man he later becomes - looking back at an unexpected encounter that begins one single, long, hot, life-altering weekend.
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Good story but anti clamatic
- De Nana en 11-25-13
De: Joyce Maynard
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Be a Man
- The Ultimate Guide
- De: The Be a Man Guy
- Narrado por: The Be a Man Guy, John Fiore
- Duración: 3 h y 56 m
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On Tik Tok, Instagram, and his podcast, The Be a Man Guy discusses what it takes to be a man. Now, this funny and insightful book showcases all new stories, vignettes, anecdotes, and pearls of wisdom.
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I didn't find much lasting value.
- De Lucca ate your Lunch! en 07-07-23
De: The Be a Man Guy
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- sbroyles45
- 01-24-19
Tommy Tomlinson at his best
I’ve been a fan of his writing for a long time . . . I even got a chance to meet and know him . . . and he is one of the most honest, transparent and compelling authors that I know. Well I’m sure that the written book is phenomenal, it’s hard to imagine that it compares to hearing his story in his own voice. He takes you from childhood to adult life, skillfully pulling back layers of his own life to reveal both an inner child and a voice that want to be heard. It’s both revealing and inspiring. I highly recommend and will go get the written book as well.
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- DonnaF.
- 03-11-24
A Look Inside the Mind
At times I felt Tommy was too hard on himself and too focused on regrets. He has lived and has an incredible life. But I kept listening knowing I wanted to find what he learned - and I am glad I did! Excellent story & so glad he read it himself. Came to me at a time in my life when I needed to hear it. Very grateful for him, his honesty, and for this book.
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- colprubin
- 02-17-19
An intimate look at obesity
This book is an intimate look at obesity. The author admits that he really has it all -- wonderful parents and friends, a fascinating job and a loving wife. Yet he cannot restrain himself from overeating. He tells his life story with great humor and candor, blaming absolutely no one but himself for overeating. His voice, which is hoarse from a throat operation he had many years ago, is initially hard to understand but adds to the experience of the book. It's a good, albeit not super deeper read, and will make me look at all obese people a little differently.
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- Rissa Recharged
- 02-01-24
Read it in 3 days!
We chose this book for our Bariatric Book Club and I literally listened to it in 3 days! Great story of will and determination!
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- Linda S.
- 05-02-19
Such a Great Audiobook
Don't be discouraged by the sample of Tommy's raspy voice as it is easy to listen to and just right for his story. This is an honest account of Tommy's struggles with diets and the many negatives of weighing 460 lbs. But this time, he tried something different after failing so many times. There are stories about his family, his love of fast food, his career, his food favorites, and his beloved dog Fred. This is a book we can all relate to as we all have addictions, complete with bad choices and regrets. Thank you Tommy for writing such a honest, heartfelt book.
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- Indyquaz
- 01-29-19
Worth a Listen
If you listen to samples before chosing audiobooks, you may resist this one because of the voice. It is worth getting past that. Read by the author, the story explains the voice, and it seems right that he reads it himself. He is an excellent writer and storyteller, and this is an honest and open account of his life as a food addicted "fat man" (his term). If you know someone like that, you'll know them better, and judge them less often, after this.
Because you'll come to like the author so much, you may be troubled that he never once mentions a fresh vegitable or fruit. He seems to only recognize his love of what we now call junk food and his need to resist it, without ever discovering the pleasure of better foods that can supplant the harmful ones. He still seems to think of "diet" as what you don't eat, instead of what you do. Still, you root for him throughout and will want to read more of his writing when you are through.
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- C. Cipriano
- 05-14-19
Listened Twice!!
I enjoyed the book so much I listened to it twice!! I can relate to his struggle even know I am only about 55 pounds overweight. The second time through I marked sections to go back and study and I will!!
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- Alyson
- 08-02-19
Profoundly moving
As someone who has only been mildly overweight but works with people each day who want to lose weight, I found Tommy Tomlinson’s book extremely eye-opening and profoundly moving. I cried on more than one occasion, struck by the realness of what Tommy wrote about. I’m a health coach who works each day with folks who want to live a healthier life. Some of them are just a bit overweight, while others are morbidly obese. While there is much in common between these populations (everyone wants to lose weight and feel great), there are vast differences, ones I hadn’t nor could ever really fully understand or appreciate until I read The Elephant in the Room. Tommy bravely took the time to record his journey, helping us to see what it feels like almost like we are right alongside him at the drive thru or having a conversation with his wife. We were able to step in his shoes and feel the sadness, grief, and frustration he experienced during his weight loss journey and beforehand. This book is filled with additional info about Tommy’s life which helps you truly get to know the author. I found that it helped to bring more color to the story, hearing about his ups and downs. You are quite honestly cheering for him out loud as he overcomes a variety of very difficult obstacles and true food addiction. This book has shifted the way I will go about my health coaching, providing more context into what my clients are experiencing even though I may not be able to understand first hand. Thank you Tommy for being vulnerable and allowing us to peer into your life as you make these incredible changes. We will all keep cheering you on.
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- Aubrey Edwards
- 05-10-21
I loved the book, but the narrator NO
I loved the book and I would have listened to it twice if the narrator wasn't so god awful!. He sounds like a 40 year, 2 pack-a-day smoker. The worst narrator I have ever listened to.
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- Leigh Anders
- 02-02-19
What you’ve been missing
So relatable, even if your struggle isn’t weight or maybe even if it’s more than one things like myself. Small change in a fast paced world, Tommy really makes you feel like you’re sitting next to him a Momma’s table eating your third helping in a blue fog of misunderstanding and yearning for a Unsuck FM to change the song. Powerful and worth every moment.
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