A Waist Is a Terrible Thing to Mind: Loving Your Body, Accepting Yourself, and Living without Regret

By: Karen Scalf Linamen

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Synopsis: What woman looks in the mirror and feels entirely satisfied with the person who looks back at her? Serial dieter Karen Linamen who, like Oprah, is way too familiar with up-and-down weight gain/loss, helps women develop a healthy and positive, yet realistic, relationship with their own bodies. Through her own soul-baring stories and those of others, with her trademark humor and wisdom, Linamen shows women the difference between achieving the perfect body (an impossibility) and coming to terms with the bo...