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| Losing It: And Gaining My Life Back One Pound at a Time | 
 enlarge | Author: Valerie Bertinelli
Publisher: Free Press
Category: Book
List Price: $15.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  195 reviews
Sales Rank: 2367
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st Free Press Trade Pbk. Ed
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 1416569685
Dewey Decimal Number: 920
EAN: 9781416569688
ASIN: 1416569685
Publication Date: November 18, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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An entertaining book especially if you grew up in the 80's October 15, 2008
I grew up watching little "Barbara Cooper" on One Day at a Time like many did so I was looking forward to the read to get "the dish." Even when Valerie married Eddie (which seemed like such an odd couple to me back then) and got into the height of her weight insecurities, I still thought she was a perfect size. I wasn't a huge VH fan but my husband was and we both thought she gave good insight into what Eddie was thinking at different incarnations of the band. Even though the theme of weight/self esteem issues were found throughout, it wasn't overly done. For emotional eaters, we can relate. The only thing holding me back from giving it 5 stars is I wished she would've waited for a year after she got to her goal weight to write this. Sadly, we saw Kirstie reach her goal and then gained it back (or at least part of it). I would've liked to have seen how Valerie maintained it through the holidays and such since she stated in the book that is the hardest part for her is maintaining.
 What's the purpose? October 9, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I grew up watching Valerie on TV and have always been a fan. When she married Eddie it was beyond cool to me because I was so into Van Halen. But, I found her book to be simplistic. It is an easy read, but it's not that interesting. She and Ed weren't doing anything that rest of us weren't doing during the '80's or doing now. I don't know, I just felt let down and am super glad that I got the book thru' the library.
Where people get off talking about how inspiring it was is beyond me. Why would wading through somebody's life that is so polluted with insecuritues be an inspiration to you?
The one burning question that I have pondered for years was answered in the book, however. I always wondered if Val and Ed had the same hairdresser considering throughout the '80's they always had the same hair style. Turns out I was right!
Other than that, I whizzed through the end of the book because I couldn't take her pity party about her weight, her lousy one-sided marriage or anything else any longer. I mean at one point she says she wished she could have won the lottery. PLEASE!!! Because the money those two had wasn't enough? Annoying!!
 It''s happened again.......... October 7, 2008
2 out of 8 found this review helpful
I just started this book this afternoon and I had been looking forward to reading it for months. After one chapter I put it down in disgust and I am almost positive I won't be finishing it. Why? Because once again an author feels it necessary to slam Republicans and the current administration.
Once again I am writing these words in an Amazon review - Newsflash authors: Some of your readers are Republicans, some of us are conservatives, some of us really do like GWB, Cheney etc. Oh the horrors. Sorry but it's a fact - we exist. And I am so damn sick and tired of books that have NOTHING to do with politics inflicting this on unsuspecting readers.
Valerie, I didn't want to read your book to see you slam the administration. I wanted to read about your life. I have always liked you from One Day at a Time on. And now....well you're just another Hollyweirder who goes on my boycott list.
 Valerie Bertinelli Is Losing It October 4, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Book Review: Losing It: Gaining My Life Back One Pound At a Time (Free Press, 2008) by Valerie Bertinelli
From: www.BasilAndSpice.com
Valerie Bertinelli comes clean about living a lie on Oprah. Launching her new book, Losing It: Gaining My Life Back One Pound at a Time, the television actress will discuss her former life with the talk show hostess. Married for twenty years to rock star Eddie Van Halen, Ms. Bertinelli experienced some of her darkest days while filming Touched By An Angel. They'd fought for years about his drinking. Turning her misery into a "reason for eating," jalapeno-and-cheese poppers became her medicine, sometimes eating several each evening.
After trying many diets and regaining the weight, she discovered that only she could solve her problems. On the brink of accepting herself as an overweight person, Ms. Bertinelli found Jenny Craig. April 4, '07, she appeared on the front cover of People magazine as a size 14 at 172lbs, admitting, "I'm fat." Resolving to stick with her diet, and encouraged by her boyfriend Tom Vitale (who's also lost 20lbs), she's dropped 40lbs and remains a Jenny Craig spokesperson.
Losing It appeals to mothers, resonates with the average person, and strikes a chord with those who are living through down days. Ms. Bertinelli's weight loss brought her out of a dark tunnel and into the light of a personal journey where she was able to confront her fears, disappointments, insecurities, and frustrations.
Valerie Bertinelli resides in Los Angeles where her favorite role is "Wolfie's Mom." She is credited with more than two dozen made-for-TV movies, and the long running One Day At A Time television series.
BACKSTORY--Valerie Bertinelli and Kirstie Alley have represented Jenny Craig, from which Alley has recently departed rumor has it to begin her own weight loss product line. She will be replaced by Queen Latifah, who expresses how she likes to do things that everyone can participate in, not just those exclusive few with a lot of money. Jenny Craig, founded in Melbourne, Australia in 1983, has more than 600 Company-owned and franchised Centers in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, and Guam. A wholly owned subsidiary of Nestle, they have provided services to more than 5 million clients worldwide.
3 Stars
Losing it and gaining my life back one pound at a time. September 30, 2008
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
I loved reading Valorie's life story, the only thing I didn;t like is the use of the one ugly word. That just doesn;t fit the personallity of this nice girl. Would have been a lot better without the F word. Shame on you Valorie.
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