Summary
"A candid memoir by folk legend Judy Collins of her lifelong struggle with compulsive overeating and the spiritual solution that saved her. Since childhood, Judy Collins has been preoccupied, haunted, seduced, and taunted by food, a problem that nearly cost her her career and her life. For decades s... Full description
- Introduction: The source of the trouble
- My journey: the first decade, running
- Lives of the diet gurus: Lord Byron
- My journey: the forties
- Lives of the diet gurus: Gayelord Hauser, the man who invented the celebrity diet
- My journey: into the fifties: music, music, music, and my galloping food addiction
- Lives of the diet gurus: Hippocrates, Cornaro, Brillat-Savarin, Faxian, and William the Conqueror
- Diets, hunger, starvation, and solutions
- My journey: teenage years
- Lives of the diet gurus: William Banting
- My journey: the late fifties and the sixties
- Lives of the diet gurus: Jean Nidetch and Weight Watchers
- My journey: my entrance into America's folk music revival
- Lives of the diet gurus: Donaldson, Pennington, Atkins, Stillman, Taller
- My journey: the heart of the matter
- Lives of the diet gurus: Dr. Andrew Weil
- My journey: the late sixties and the seventies
- Lives of the diet gurus: Linus Pauling, Adelle Davis, and the vitamin revolution
- My journey: almost nearing the last gasp
- Lives of the diet gurus: The Scarsdale Diet and Dr. Herman Tarnower
- My journey: life on life's terms
- Lives of the diet gurus: Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith; alcoholism and food addiction
- My journey: the solution
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