Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-Time Eater

Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-Time Eater

Jul 25

Born Round is a story about a man and his life-long battle with weight and hunger. Although the writer is not ever faced with the weight wall that many who turn to surgery are-his battles and concerns are brought to the reader in an air of openness that is somewhat raw. Reading this I’ve been reflecting on my “story” with weight and how it’s affected my life good and bad. How mind numbing the obsession becomes. So far so good and I’m half way complete with the book. Here I offer you some bits of wisdom from Frank Bruni.

A link to a interview (personally I think Mo Rocca did a piss poor job on this one) :

Readings from the Book
“But the issue is your distance from your goal weight, that mythic land to which you’ve been traveling as directly and expeditiously as Odysseus on the voyage home. And the distance is too great.”

“I didn’t want to do what I’d done around other men, didn’t pretend to be full after five bites of an appetizer and seven of an entrée and then wave away dessert, saying I didn’t know how I could possibly find the space, when my stomach was nothing but space, a McMansion of stomach, with laundry rooms and powder rooms and walk-in closets and in-laws suites that other stomachs didn’t have. “

“As badly as I wanted to lose weight and as often as I pledged to, I also discovered that there was a strange mercy in being fat, a particular sanctuary. Being fat absolved me, in a sense, of so many other flaws. It took the blame for a whole host of setbacks and disappointments. It was a handy, hefty scapegoat.”

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Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-Time Eater