When I achieved my goal weight, I wanted to tell everyone how I did it. Usually, when I have a story to tell, I put it into a comic strip or story, so I drew up a few pages of samples to pitch to a weight-loss company. They didn’t bite, but the urge to tell my story only got stronger as I maintained my goal weight over the next couple of years. I finally socked away some time and money so I could work on a proposal, because I knew if I didn’t at least try, I would regret it. Fortunately, the work caught the eye of Jill Schwartzman at Random House, and I was able to go to town on it. -Carol Lay
Carol talks to Judy Berman of salon.com in
an interview entitled
This comic book can
make you thin! Here they discuss her
memoir The Big Skinny, what inspired Carol to write it, what she
hopes the readers will take from the memoir, and what pushed her
to lose the weight in the first place. (salon.com, 2009)
For a good part of Carol’s life she tried
to lose weight, and was unsuccessful. In The Big Skinny, Carol tells the
world how she figured out how to lose her excess weight and used her
cartoon illustrations to depict this. Carol describes how she was always
overweight, and tried out many different ways such as dieting pills,
hypnosis, low carbs, weight watchers etc. but was never successful and now
in her book The Big Skinny, she tells the world how she lost it and how
she had several problems to overcome along the way.
Carol's struggle is something that many, many women struggle with. The way Carol presents the problem, however, is awful. She makes it sound so difficult to eat healthy and change her diet. In my experience, making healthy lifestyle changes is much easier and more enjoyable than she made it sound.
ReplyDeleteI would agree with Carol on this. People never seem to listen until you've had a big success. People don't believe you until you prove them wrong. I am happy to see her show such determination and inspiration for so many women. Someone I find did this was Adele. In reality people would have looked at her in the beginning and would have even given her a listen. She wasn't the typical pretty pop star everyone thinks of. But she proved herself and pushed to do great things.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nck6BZga7TQ