This is an honest book that reflects the inner world of people living with excess weight. Through a personal and direct voice, the reader is exposed to the daily experiences, sensations, and emotions of those grappling with this reality.
The book offers a fresh perspective on understanding the subject: it concerns itself not only with outward appearance, but focuses equally on the difficulties, thoughts, and profound questions that accompany those living with excess weight. At the same time, it invites the reader to pause for a moment and reconsider the way we tend to regard obese people—an attitude typically characterized by swift, judgmental glances. The author reminds us that our words, gestures, and small looks profoundly affect the lived experience of others.
Further on, the author also dwells on the subject of weight gain, explaining how it often stems from emotional eating or genetic background. He exposes the mechanisms of justification and denial that accompany the struggle, presenting not only the difficulty of maintaining weight loss, but especially the painful side of recurring weight gain. This regain is bound up with feelings of inferiority, guilt, shame, and even self-hatred—deep emotions that sometimes remain hidden from the public eye, behind abundant humor and false confidence.
The book speaks to obese people with empathy for their experiences and struggles, while simultaneously inviting all readers to reconsider their ways of relating to people with excess weight.
Hello.
I’m Alon. Alon Raz. Alon Raz the fat guy. I want to begin this book with an apology.
As someone who has been fat most of his life, I know how hurtful the word “fat” can be. I know what this word does to the soul of a fat person. I use this word quite a bit in this book, and the book’s title was chosen as it was—not with the intention to hurt, but rather with the same purpose as writing the entire book: to raise awareness among people struggling with weight issues, to encourage dialogue on the subject, to understand and embrace them.
Despite the humor I tried to sprinkle throughout the book, it’s written in a way that hits pretty hard in the gut. This is an honest and authentic book. It was written from the bottom of my heart with a clear purpose: to ease the burden on people who struggle with their weight all their lives. There is no intention whatsoever to hurt, insult, belittle, or mock fat people—quite the opposite—but if anyone is offended in one way or another by the book’s title, by what’s written in it, or by anything else, I apologize in advance.
Read the entire book, understand, feel, identify, and you’ll see that there is no hidden malicious intent in the book. I hope you’ll enjoy the book and that it will help you, even just a little, in whatever way it can.
