The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl

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The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl is the true story of how Shauna Reid (that's me!) lost half her body weight. Full of adventure, romance and chocolate, the book goes far beyond the blog and spans seven years and seven jean sizes.

While the blog lurches from topic to topic, The Book reads like a novel; action-packed, expanded and organised. It's raw and honest with all the gaping holes filled in where I'd screwed up and ran away from my blog.

Inspiring, uplifting and entertaining, The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl has even caused readers to blow bubbles of snot from laughter! It's also been named No. 1 on Marie Claire magazine's list of the Top Ten Diet Books.

Is it a memoir? Is it a diet book? Is it chick lit?

It's a little bit of all three. But Dietgirl is different from the usual diet book. There's nobody telling you what to do -- instead I tell you how I did it, with warts-and-all honesty and humour about the ups and downs of busting the lard and trying to find peace with all my lumpy bits. Or as the blurb-writing folks say on the cover, it is "a hilarious and heartwarming tale of a real-life superhero who battled the bulge and won."

Here's the synopsis from the back of the book:

"In January 2001 Shauna Reid was twenty-three years old and twenty-five stone. Determined to turn her life around, she created the hugely successful weblog "The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl" and, hiding behind her Lycra-clad roly-poly alter-ego, her transformation from couch potato to svelte goddess began.

Today, 8,000 miles, seven years and twelve-and-a-half stone later, the gloriously gorgeous Shauna is literally half the woman she used to be.In turn hysterically funny and heart-wrenchingly honest, "The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl" follows the twists and turns of Shauna's lard-busting adventure as she curbs the calories and learns to love the gym. There are travel tales from Red Square to Reykjavik, plus romance and intrigue as she meets the man of her dreams during a pub quiz in Edinburgh. As her UK visa rapidly runs out, will she be deported back to Australia or will love triumph?

Entertaining and action-packed, this is the uplifting true story of a young woman who defeated her demons and conquered her cravings to become a weight-loss superhero to inspire us all."

Read an extract

Click here for a generous serving of The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl from You magazine, the Mail on Sunday's glossy supplement.

What folks are saying about Dietgirl

"She describes perfectly just what is going through most of our heads as we struggle with learning to like ourselves, whether we're plump or not!... its more like you're sitting across a table with her in a cafe just chit-chatting with your best mate." - Amazon.co.uk review by Grace
"I was both laughing and crying from the first page, with her description of the Biggest Knickers in Australia, and her recounting of Day Zero, a heart-rending WW meeting and weigh-in. I could hardly read the print through my tears as she described the pain, the humiliation, and the anger. That scene will always signify to me the incredible bravery it takes to change one's life so much. ... This isn't a How-To slimming book, but it will help anyone to unleash their own inner superhero. She gives us a portrait of a person who turned wishing and dreaming into doing and having -- that's a priceless lesson" - Amazon.co.uk review by Marla
"The book isn't just a cut-and-paste of her online posts, it contains so much more. I was reduced to tears several times, and chuckled out loud many times too. (I actually snorted and blew a snot bubble out my nose at one point) - Kek's BFL Thing

Dietgirl has been featured in ELLE, the Mail on Sunday, Marie Claire, the Daily Express, the Daily Record, the Irish Independent, Who Weekly and Australian OK! Magazine just to name a few. There's also oodles of reader reviews on Amazon and in blogland. Click here to read more reviews!

Where o where can I get it?

Dietgirl is published by Transworld and available in bookshops or you can buy online!

UK:

Random House
Amazon UK
Play.com (free shipping!)
Waterstones
The Book Depository - free delivery to North America, Western Europe and some other countries

Ireland: Books Unlimited, Bestsellers.ie

North America: