Janey Sweet is the CEO of a couture wedding design firm that she runs with her childhood best friend Beau. After being photographed in the front row of a fashion show eating a pastry and looking a bit thick, Beau forces Janey on a sabbatical until she loses 30 pounds. Janey spends the next few months trying all kinds of diets and exercise to lose weight, save her job, and get her best friend back.
I didn’t think I would like this book as much as I did. It took me a bit to get into it because I couldn’t figure out if the story was meant to be taken seriously or not. Was I was supposed to laugh at the characters eating clay as part of a diet or going to naked yoga? But once I got a few chapters in I started to like this book a lot.
The story mocks the ridiculous lengths people will go to get and stay thin. It’s absurd and relatable all at the same time.
I found Janey to be a likable character. She was a bit naive (even I could see that Beau was the villain within the first ten pages) but she persists. She knows all these fitness workouts and diets are a bit out there but she does them anyway because she loves her job and wants to get back to work. I don’t think I ever heard her make fun of anyone and she wasn’t one of those characters who mocked or sneered at people who were thinner than her.
I really liked, what I thought, what this book was about. In the end, the story is not about losing weight at all. In fact, we never find out how much Janey weighs or how much weight she gained or lost. Rather, the book is more self-introspective and about Janey figuring out who she is and what she want’s to do with her life. It’s also about friendships and how friendships can evolve for better or worse over time.
Although I wouldn’t try any of the diets or workouts in this book, I enjoyed reading about them and about Janey’s journey.
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