Book description
'I love food. Even worse, I love junk food. If lard could be double
deep-fried I would eat it. If I could deep-fry headache pills I would.
So it's no wonder I'm now the size of a small yet economically viable
continent...'When A. J. Rochester is selected to feature in a television
series on obesity, she is at first appalled and then resolved. At 109
kilos (17 stone), she knows she needs to lose weight - not because she
yearns to become a twiglet but so she can keep up with her little boy
and turn her life around at last. But after years of fighting a losing
battle with the flab, A. J. knows she needs a miracle. So she decides to
ditch the 'quick-fix' diets and the faddy exercise equipment and try a
new approach - one that involves discovering her own inner strengths. It
may not be easy - but it pays off. Confessions of a Reformed Dieter
charts the highs, lows and plateaus of A. J.'s incredible journey, from
overcoming an early setback - waking up in hospital with a broken leg
after a drunken binge - to the triumph of shedding the first, and last,
kilo. A. J. Rochester is a 32-year-old Sydney-based writer, performer,
comedian, film-maker, singer, single mother and goddess. She is the host
of the cable-channel series, Mum's the Word.
