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Saving Grace: A Memoir of Weight Loss
'I have been overweight for more than 45 years. I've tried every diet going and been caught on a treadmill of guilt deprivation defiance self-indulgence and despair.'
Twelve years ago Grace Kitto was a successful TV producer wife and mother. She was also clinically obese and on the path to Type 2 diabetes. Until one day when she left work determined to stick to one of her serial diets but soon found herself eating an ice cream as if on autopilot. It sparked an epiphany – she realised the solution to her many failed diets lay in her unconscious. In the powerful instinctual part of her brain.
This is her funny and courageous memoir of that journey the questions she posed and discoveries she made within the fields of psychology neuroscience and biochemistry. She devised her own self-help system, a slow diet, and three-and-a-half years later, she reached her goal of a BMI of 25. Another three years on, she’s still there.
'When is it ever going to change? Every dieter knows the despair of thinking that. When is it going to change? The answer is right here right now on this page.'
Twelve years ago Grace Kitto was a successful TV producer wife and mother. She was also clinically obese and on the path to Type 2 diabetes. Until one day when she left work determined to stick to one of her serial diets but soon found herself eating an ice cream as if on autopilot. It sparked an epiphany – she realised the solution to her many failed diets lay in her unconscious. In the powerful instinctual part of her brain.
This is her funny and courageous memoir of that journey the questions she posed and discoveries she made within the fields of psychology neuroscience and biochemistry. She devised her own self-help system, a slow diet, and three-and-a-half years later, she reached her goal of a BMI of 25. Another three years on, she’s still there.
'When is it ever going to change? Every dieter knows the despair of thinking that. When is it going to change? The answer is right here right now on this page.'
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288 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 24, 2018
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About the author
Grace Kitto
1 book1 followerGrace Kitto is a first time author. A seasoned TV producer, she has spent many years writing television proposals, treatments and voice-overs, all the while hankering to be a ‘real’ writer.
What finally prompted her to begin was her own story of successful weight loss after 45 years of failed dieting. Six stone overweight and clinically obese, she had been on a sure path to Type 2 diabetes when she realised she needed a radical rethink to tackle the problem. So she had one. Sparked by an epiphany moment involving an ice cream in a car park on Dartmoor, she launched her own private research programme into the causes and solutions to obesity. It took her three years of slow dieting to reach a healthy weight. This is her funny and moving account of how she did it.
The first draft of Saving Grace won the Mslexia Memoir Competition in 2015.
What finally prompted her to begin was her own story of successful weight loss after 45 years of failed dieting. Six stone overweight and clinically obese, she had been on a sure path to Type 2 diabetes when she realised she needed a radical rethink to tackle the problem. So she had one. Sparked by an epiphany moment involving an ice cream in a car park on Dartmoor, she launched her own private research programme into the causes and solutions to obesity. It took her three years of slow dieting to reach a healthy weight. This is her funny and moving account of how she did it.
The first draft of Saving Grace won the Mslexia Memoir Competition in 2015.
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January 8, 2022
Inspirational read. Interesting reading Grace’s experiences throughout the journey from colleagues, friends and family. Certainly given me lots of food for thought and most importantly from the health aspect.
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