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150 Pounds - Kate Rockland (2012)
What happens when opposites collide? Alexis Allbright is the creator of the Skinny Chick blog; Shoshana Weiner is the owner of the Fat and Fabulous site. Both bloggers address weight issues but in very different manner. Alexis is only 100 pounds, not very fond of food and people and doesn't have anyone in her life except her gay best friend Billy. Shoshana proudly weighs 225 pounds, she loves to eat and has a habit of collecting friends wherever she goes. Both the bloggers come face to face when they get invited on Oprah and from there war begins. Things change drastically, tables turn and the women go through unimaginable weight changes. Will they realise that the weight scale can't be a measure of real happiness? Kate Rockland has done a fantastic job of talking about a highly sensitive issue in a humorous yet very mature manner. It's a real page-turner. (SS)
Kate Rockland's 150 Pounds is about two bloggers who write about weight issues. The summary says: "In the fast-paced, frenzied world of blogging, Alexis Allbright, of Skinny Chick fame, and Shoshana Weiner, of Fat and Fabulous, stand out like diamonds. Both have over five million loyal readers. Both are hungry for success. As life intercedes, these two writers living across the Hudson River from one another in Manhattan and Hoboken, New Jersey, must answer the question: What is the best message to give women about their weight? Should they try and shed it, or learn to love their own skin? Tossed around by the media, invited by Oprah Winfrey as guests, Shoshana and Alexis have to put their differences aside as they realise there is no perfect number on the scale. When their own weight changes drastically as a result of exciting life events, these two one-time enemies will discover they have much more in common than they thought: by the end of the novel they will both weigh 150 pounds."