This is Big

The true story of a cross-generational, beyond-the-grave -- and beyond-the-scale -- friendship that led to the first breakthrough Marisa Meltzer ever had in her quest for self-improvement.



Marisa Meltzer began her first diet at the age of five. Growing up an indoors-loving child in Northern California, she learned from an early age that weight was the one part of her life she could neither change nor even really understand.



Fast forward nearly four decades. Marisa, a contributor to the New Yorker and the New York Times, comes across an obituary for Jean Nidetch, the Queens, New York housewife who founded Weight Watchers in 1963. Weaving Jean's incredible story as weight loss maven and pathbreaking entrepreneur with her own journey through Weight Watchers, Marisa chronicles the deep parallels, and enduring frustrations, in each woman's decades-long efforts to lose weight and keep it off. The result is funny, unexpected, and unforgettable: a testament to how transformation goes far beyond a number on the scale.

Povestea adevarata a unei prietenii intre generatii, dincolo de mormant si dincolo de scara, care a dus la prima descoperire pe care Marisa Meltzer a avut-o vreodata in cautarea ei de auto-imbunatatire. Marisa Meltzer si-a inceput prima dieta la varsta de cinci ani. Crescand un copil iubitor de interior in California de Nord, a aflat de la o varsta frageda ca greutatea este singura parte din viata ei pe care nici nu o putea schimba, nici macar nu o poate intelege cu adevarat.