Good Girls Do Swallow
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By: Rachael Oakes-Ash
Format: Paperback
From: Mainstream Publishing
Pub. Date: August 2001
From: Mainstream Publishing
Pub. Date: August 2001
Product Details:
Catalog: Book
Release Date: 2001-09-20
Media: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 189
Ean: 9781840184808
Isbn: 1840184809
Catalog: Book
Release Date: 2001-09-20
Media: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 189
Ean: 9781840184808
Isbn: 1840184809
ABOUT THE BOOK
EDITORIAL REVIEW
Between the ages of 20 and 30, Rachael Oakes-Ash lost 60kg and gained 76kg on a rollercoaster of body image problems and food obsession. She went through anorexia, bulimia, bulimarexia, gym obsession, strict dieting and binge eating before finally she figured out how to stop torturing herself and hating her body. This is the black and funny story of her downfall and recovery. Rachael might have taken things further than many of us, but this is a story every woman can relate to. In Australia, 75 per cent of women think they are too fat and 95 per cent of women have dieted (even though dieting is the best way to put on weight). You might not have rescued food from the bin in a moment of binge-madness but if you've ever felt lousy and reached for a chocolate biscuit for comfort this book is for you. "What the diet promised, I got," writes Rachael. "I got the body that can wear the clothes. I got the job I love, I got the man I want. But I only got it for keeps when I stopped dieting. "Good Girls Do Swallow" shows how she did it. And how you can, too.
USER REVIEWS
"This book is amazing! As a sufferer of an eating disorder, I have wrestled with myself and searched for a way to express the feelings and a way to explain my actions that I experience during this stuggle. And I found it in this book. Not only will this book share the trauma of a fellow sufferer but Rachel Oakes Ash's witty humour brings relief and encouragement. I found this book so helpful that I lent it to my boyfriend to read as it said what I couldn't. This book is inspiring and a must for anyone who is looking for hope to overcome this illness."
~ Written on 2007-12-09
~ Written on 2007-12-09
"I read this book as recommended by a nurse, whilst in hospital, and found it helpful, I certainly admired the honesty of the the author, and the self depricating look into her attitudes and behaiours whilst being ill, which I find many sufferers of eating disorders conveniently not mention. It was most refreshing to have a change of tone from "woes me".
However I feel there was a large emphasis placed on dieting, and in my personal belief, dieting and eating disorders are quite different, although I can appreciate how a society obsessed with diet regimes can make recovery from an eating disorder very difficult.
All in all a well written book and definately worth a read."
~ Written on 2007-02-04
However I feel there was a large emphasis placed on dieting, and in my personal belief, dieting and eating disorders are quite different, although I can appreciate how a society obsessed with diet regimes can make recovery from an eating disorder very difficult.
All in all a well written book and definately worth a read."
~ Written on 2007-02-04
"Rachel Oakes-Ash repeatedly emphasises in Good Girls Do Swallow that she doesn't do things by halves. Everything is taken to extremes; this book is no exception. This is no gentle introduction to the world of eating disorders - the reader is taken on a rollercoaster journey of up, down, fat, thin, binge, starve, so quickly that it's almost hard to keep track of the cycle. An exhausting book to read, let alone to live.
Oakes-Ash's opinions on society's effect on eating disorders are slipped in neatly; the book isn't over-opinionated, but she offers some very well-written views in it. This is done without disturbing or interrupting the plot, so unintrusively that it would be worth re-reading the book purely to revisit her opinions on the origins of eating disorders, society's contribution to them, & etc.
GGDS is full of dark humour, and is written from a fairly reflective perspective of someone looking back on what she's done. A subtle vein of sarcasm is present throughout the whole book, as Oakes-Ash describes and occasionally mocks her own disordered thinking and behaviour. This would possibly make the book less triggering, were it not for the fact that it just seems so fast-paced that it's easy to be caught up by it. Fast-paced not in the sense that it's a gripping story - it's not - but to read it feels restless, like your thoughts are racing. Not recommended for the emotionally fragile!"
~ Written on 2006-04-10
Oakes-Ash's opinions on society's effect on eating disorders are slipped in neatly; the book isn't over-opinionated, but she offers some very well-written views in it. This is done without disturbing or interrupting the plot, so unintrusively that it would be worth re-reading the book purely to revisit her opinions on the origins of eating disorders, society's contribution to them, & etc.
GGDS is full of dark humour, and is written from a fairly reflective perspective of someone looking back on what she's done. A subtle vein of sarcasm is present throughout the whole book, as Oakes-Ash describes and occasionally mocks her own disordered thinking and behaviour. This would possibly make the book less triggering, were it not for the fact that it just seems so fast-paced that it's easy to be caught up by it. Fast-paced not in the sense that it's a gripping story - it's not - but to read it feels restless, like your thoughts are racing. Not recommended for the emotionally fragile!"
~ Written on 2006-04-10
"Rachael really brings to light everything that you feel and have ever felt about food, life, yourself and about peoples perceptions She throws a spanner in the works of every promoter of 'skinny' and by the end of the book you feel renewed and happy that life can be good even if you eat. I think it should be made educational meterial for school girls as they hit puberty. sgm."
~ Written on 2006-02-20
~ Written on 2006-02-20
"A darkly comic look at the tragic world of eating disorders. Books on this subject often tend to lean towards melodrama, but Oakes-Ash writes in a less serious, lighter way, thst helps to make the words more accesible to the reader. Any woman who reads this, whether they have an eating disorder or not, will certaintly recognize aspects of their own personality in Rachael's story. The fact that Oakes suffered anorexia, bulimia and copulsive overeating means that the story fundementally covers all basis on the eating disorder spectrum, and provides a range of varied perspectives.
The most impressive aspect of the book is the sheer frankness of the author's writing. She is refreshingly honest, telling her story in graphic detail whilst resisting the urge to 'sugar-coat' her biography in order to make herself look better. It is this openness - this baring of the soul - that makes the reader immediately warm to Rachael, a factor which helps to make her words & her underlying message seem so much more genuine than the usual crop of 'Self-help' books that are dominating the market at the moment."
~ Written on 2004-12-05
The most impressive aspect of the book is the sheer frankness of the author's writing. She is refreshingly honest, telling her story in graphic detail whilst resisting the urge to 'sugar-coat' her biography in order to make herself look better. It is this openness - this baring of the soul - that makes the reader immediately warm to Rachael, a factor which helps to make her words & her underlying message seem so much more genuine than the usual crop of 'Self-help' books that are dominating the market at the moment."
~ Written on 2004-12-05