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 enlarge | Author: Valerie Bertinelli
Publisher: Free Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  193 reviews
Sales Rank: 3562
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Free Press Hbk. Ed
Pages: 288
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6 x 1.2
ISBN: 1416568182
Dewey Decimal Number: 791.45028092
EAN: 9781416568186
ASIN: 1416568182
Publication Date: February 25, 2008
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Condition: book has minor wear to edges and corners of dustjackets, no marking in text
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 It''s happened again.......... October 7, 2008
Marta (North Carolina)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
I just started this book this afternoon and I had been looking forward to reading it for months. After one chapter I put it down in disgust and I am almost positive I won't be finishing it. Why? Because once again an author feels it necessary to slam Republicans and the current administration.
Once again I am writing these words in an Amazon review - Newsflash authors: Some of your readers are Republicans, some of us are conservatives, some of us really do like GWB, Cheney etc. Oh the horrors. Sorry but it's a fact - we exist. And I am so damn sick and tired of books that have NOTHING to do with politics inflicting this on unsuspecting readers.
Valerie, I didn't want to read your book to see you slam the administration. I wanted to read about your life. I have always liked you from One Day at a Time on. And now....well you're just another Hollyweirder who goes on my boycott list.
 Valerie Bertinelli Is Losing It October 4, 2008
Kelly J. Jadon (Florida)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Book Review: Losing It: Gaining My Life Back One Pound At a Time (Free Press, 2008) by Valerie Bertinelli
From: www.BasilAndSpice.com
Valerie Bertinelli comes clean about living a lie on Oprah. Launching her new book, Losing It: Gaining My Life Back One Pound at a Time, the television actress will discuss her former life with the talk show hostess. Married for twenty years to rock star Eddie Van Halen, Ms. Bertinelli experienced some of her darkest days while filming Touched By An Angel. They'd fought for years about his drinking. Turning her misery into a "reason for eating," jalapeno-and-cheese poppers became her medicine, sometimes eating several each evening.
After trying many diets and regaining the weight, she discovered that only she could solve her problems. On the brink of accepting herself as an overweight person, Ms. Bertinelli found Jenny Craig. April 4, '07, she appeared on the front cover of People magazine as a size 14 at 172lbs, admitting, "I'm fat." Resolving to stick with her diet, and encouraged by her boyfriend Tom Vitale (who's also lost 20lbs), she's dropped 40lbs and remains a Jenny Craig spokesperson.
Losing It appeals to mothers, resonates with the average person, and strikes a chord with those who are living through down days. Ms. Bertinelli's weight loss brought her out of a dark tunnel and into the light of a personal journey where she was able to confront her fears, disappointments, insecurities, and frustrations.
Valerie Bertinelli resides in Los Angeles where her favorite role is "Wolfie's Mom." She is credited with more than two dozen made-for-TV movies, and the long running One Day At A Time television series.
BACKSTORY--Valerie Bertinelli and Kirstie Alley have represented Jenny Craig, from which Alley has recently departed rumor has it to begin her own weight loss product line. She will be replaced by Queen Latifah, who expresses how she likes to do things that everyone can participate in, not just those exclusive few with a lot of money. Jenny Craig, founded in Melbourne, Australia in 1983, has more than 600 Company-owned and franchised Centers in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, and Guam. A wholly owned subsidiary of Nestle, they have provided services to more than 5 million clients worldwide.
3 Stars
Losing it and gaining my life back one pound at a time. September 30, 2008
Claire Barney
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
I loved reading Valorie's life story, the only thing I didn;t like is the use of the one ugly word. That just doesn;t fit the personallity of this nice girl. Would have been a lot better without the F word. Shame on you Valorie.
good read September 15, 2008
Throckmorton (California)
I liked this book alot and it was very inspirational to anyone trying to lose weight. I wish it would have been alittle more juicier regarding her marriage to eddie van halen. I felt alot was left out.
OMG VAL! September 4, 2008
L. D. Merkl (NYC)
The sex. The drugs. The rock n roll. And that was even before she met Eddie Van Halen.
The shock value not the writing--which has a breezy, high school girl's diary quality--is the reason to read this book.
She claims to be an emotional eater -- by the end you understand what she had to be so emotional about.
For the longest time VB was on the side of the angels. Presented by the media as America's Sweetheart; the good girl who would tame the bad boy; the suffering wife who tried and failed; kind but unhappy fat woman -- these are the monikers she could have continued to milk for sympathy. Instead she put it all out there without a trace of vindictiveness. This alone keeps her on the side of angels.
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