I’m With Fatty: Losing Fifty Pounds in Fifty Miserable Weeks
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One man’s humorous and heartfelt journey through his year-long attempt to regain his health and change his life.
Where does one draw the line between being a lifelong foodie and a food addict? Edward Ugel is 36 years ancient and weighs 263 pounds, or as he likes to reflect about it: 119 kilograms. I’m with Fatty chronicles Ugel’s attempt to follow doctor’s orders and lose fifty pounds or risk dropping dead while standing in line at Popeyes. It details the complex like triangle between himself, his wife, and all the crispy, braised, barbecued, and sautéed goodies that he’s been feeding himself ever since he could say the words “to go.”
Ugel sets off on his yearlong journey to figure out how to live in a world lacking dim sum, smoked Italian meats, and the pleasure of cooking whatever and but he wants. He spends his days torn between two worlds: nutritionists and personal trainers versus pancetta and Häagen-Dazs. It’s a war of attrition—each side has its share of victories and utter failures.
Lovers of narrative nonfiction will relish this contagiously readable book that looks back at Ugel’s intricate history with food, obesity, and the ruinous effects this lifelong relationship has had on him. Filled with humor, ultimately this is a book about the private hell of being stout in America and about the fragile male psyche and the seldom-discussed issue of male body image.
I’m with Fatty is a amusing, candid, raw, and personal tale of weight loss from the male perspective. It is a narcissistic battle of wills between the leader who likes food more than oxygen and the man who knows that his very life depends on the success of his “Fatty Project.”
I’m with Fatty takes the reader along on a hard, frustrating, embarrassing, and inspiring journey, one that is the last fantastic hope of a man desperate to save his own life—or at least own a pair of pants that fits.
Where does one draw the line between being a lifelong foodie and a food addict? Edward Ugel is 36 years ancient and weighs 263 pounds, or as he likes to reflect about it: 119 kilograms. I’m with Fatty chronicles Ugel’s attempt to follow doctor’s orders and lose fifty pounds or risk dropping dead while standing in line at Popeyes. It details the complex like triangle between himself, his wife, and all the crispy, braised, barbecued, and sautéed goodies that he’s been feeding himself ever since he could say the words “to go.”
Ugel sets off on his yearlong journey to figure out how to live in a world lacking dim sum, smoked Italian meats, and the pleasure of cooking whatever and but he wants. He spends his days torn between two worlds: nutritionists and personal trainers versus pancetta and Häagen-Dazs. It’s a war of attrition—each side has its share of victories and utter failures.
Lovers of narrative nonfiction will relish this contagiously readable book that looks back at Ugel’s intricate history with food, obesity, and the ruinous effects this lifelong relationship has had on him. Filled with humor, ultimately this is a book about the private hell of being stout in America and about the fragile male psyche and the seldom-discussed issue of male body image.
I’m with Fatty is a amusing, candid, raw, and personal tale of weight loss from the male perspective. It is a narcissistic battle of wills between the leader who likes food more than oxygen and the man who knows that his very life depends on the success of his “Fatty Project.”
I’m with Fatty takes the reader along on a hard, frustrating, embarrassing, and inspiring journey, one that is the last fantastic hope of a man desperate to save his own life—or at least own a pair of pants that fits.
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Ironically, this book followed the same lifecycle of the predictable diet – it ongoing with fantastic promise, and then completely bottomed out.
For the first half of the book he talks about his goal to lose weight. He shares why he wants to lose the weight. He shares why he thinks he got stout in the first place. And he shares how he is going to lose the weight. (He also talks about food… a lot. If he included a recipe for every dish he mentioned, this book could be passed off as a cookbook.)
So he wants to change – awesome. Readers like myself who delight in reading diet success tales reflect they’re in for a real treat.
Only, as a replacement for of reading about his success, all you get is page after page of failures. Whiny, “woe-is-me” and “what-have-I-done?” redundant failures. After the 3rd tale of how he “slips up” I just got bored. Yes, I know slip ups are common and to be expected in diets, but that doesn’t mean I want to read a whole book about them.
Here is the book in synopsis:
“I want to lose weight. I’m so stout.”
(Slot in binge on food.)
“Oh my gosh, I’m even fatter!”
(couple days later)
“I’m going back on my diet!”
(slot in binge again)
“waaaah. I’m so stout.”
(and so on…)
This guy is just like the girlfriend you constantly want to smack. I felt it was a perfect waste of time.
And he doesn’t lose 50 pounds, he loses 46. I’m not trying to be nitpicky, its just that this is more of the same “elusion reality” and lying to oneself that gets them to 260 lbs in the first place.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
Ugel seems like a cheerful, friendly fellow. Sorry to say, in this book he just kind of natters on, like he’s on the next barstool over. He tends to repeat himself. And he doesn’t seem particularly interested in What Really Happened, which makes his experience hard to follow, let alone tell to. When you’re more interested in putting a zinger at the end of an anecdote than on describing your own experiences, memoir is probably not your best medium.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
If you’ve read Edward Ugel’s previous book, Money for Nothing: One Man’s Journey Through the Dark Side of Lottery Millions, you won’t be taken in by the cartoon-ish book jacket and the amusing title. For all his class clown posturing, there’s something edgy and disturbing about Ugel’s tales. And irresistible.
From the moment I ongoing I’m With Fatty, I was hooked. Ugel, who is in his late thirties, had gained so much weight in the past few years that his wife was alarmed by the increasing volume of his snoring and the fact that he stopped breathing every few minutes while asleep. Once she convinced him this might be a problem, he went to the doctor, who told him in uncomfortably direct terms that he was going to die soon if he didn’t lose weight.
It took him a while to digest that information, but after several months of dithering, he buckled down to lose an arbitrary fifty pounds in an arbitrary fifty weeks. No doubt, as a writer, Ugel realized that this would make a compelling tale, but that it had to be huge enough to warrant a book (no one is going to buy a book about a name’s quest to lose twenty pounds), and that his readers would not be pleased to read a book in which our hero fails miserably.
Losing weight is a slow process that is not usually dramatic. In Ugel’s hands but, the process becomes a nightmare roller coaster ride in which he lurches from inspiration to perspiration to asphyxiation in fleeting order. Some of his decisions seem sensible, such as hiring a personal teacher and a nutritionist to get him kick-ongoing. Additional decisions seem less sensible in terms of weight loss, but brilliant decisions in terms of a excellent tale. Getting a colonic irrigation at a strip mall falls into the latter category.
While I’m With Fatty is emphatically not a how-to guide for persons who want to lose weight, it’s inspirational in its own warped way.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
A well written and straight forwards tale of man’s weight loss journey. I appreciated the humor, the honesty and warmth of the book. For anyone struggling with weight loss this book will offer useful insights and it does a fantastic job of explaining the issue of emotional eating. A quick, satisfying read with plenty to offer.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
This is an intense diary about a man’s struggle to avoid ice cream and lose weight.
Sounds depressing, in the hands of a less leader, it would be, but Ed makes his tale hysterically amusing. You will laugh and be inspired.
Pat Karasick
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5