RAWSISTAZ Review of Hungry for More: A Keeping-It-Real Guide for Black Women On Weight and Body Image by Robyn McGee

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Reviewed: Oct 26, 2005

Hungry for More: A Keeping-It-Real Guide for Black Women On Weight and Body Image by Robyn McGee
Seal Press, December 2005
175 Pages, Paperback, $12.95
ISBN: 1580051499
Genre: Self-Help

RAW Rating: 4.0 (out of 5)

Love yourself

Robyn McGee's HUNGRY FOR MORE is a guide to help African-American women make informed choices when deciding to live healthy and lose weight. Ms. McGee's book begins by telling readers about her sister, Cathy, who underwent gastric bypass surgery, but whose heart wasn't strong enough for this type of surgery and she died trying to find a quick and surefire method to lose weight. Cathy is one of many African-American women who are opting to have gastric bypass after many years of yo-yo dieting and trying everything imaginable to lose weight. Ms. McGee advocates losing weight in a slow manner with changes in eating habits, behavioral modification and exercise. She wants to give African-American women and women of color options for long-term weight loss and this book is a testament for her sister.

With nine chapters, an introduction, forward and afterword, the author covers many phases on living healthy and weight loss. In Chapter Two, “From the Motherland to Mickey D’s”, discusses how African-Americans have gradually become obese over time, especially in a culture of sedentary life. Chapter Four, “Digging Our Graves With Our Forks”, examines the ways depression, racism and sexual abuse have contributed to obesity and how important dealing with these issues can change the continuum. And the final chapter, “Generation Triple XL”, looks at the overweight problems of African-American children. Although I only highlighted a few of the chapters, this book has a wealth of usable information.

HUNGRY FOR MORE is informative and gives us the history of obesity in the African-American community as well as statistical information to validate the author’s findings. With several case studies, she is able to convey her information from an individual and emotional standpoint. She makes her findings easily relatable and the options are fully explained. She also includes other reading materials to review as well as movies that feature each topic she explains in her book. One message made very clear in this book is that readers must learn to love themselves and they are more than just a number on a scale. Even if you choose or gastric bypass is your only option, this book gives you enough information for you to research this surgery so you know enough to ask the right questions and make an educated and informed decision. However, she offers so much more in ways of losing and maintaining weight loss that can easily be incorporated into anyone's lifestyle, if that is what he or she wants to do.

Reviewed by Cashana Seals, RAWSISTAZ.com
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Cashana Seals currently resides in Montgomery, Alabama. An avid reader since she was very young, she spends her spare time reading and is the President and Founder of a local book club.

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