The Big Skinny: How I Changed My Fattitude - Brossura

"[Lay's] wicked sense of humor brings laughs to her dieting struggles...The Big Skinny is a first."--"Publishers Weekly," cover story
"As weight-loss self-help and well-formed sequential-art narrative, The Big Skinny demonstrates that direct and simple can be satisfying approaches that yield admirable results."--"Booklist"
"It's one thing to read about a weight loss journey; it's another thing altogether to see it. Read Carol Lay's The Big Skinny. You'll carry in your head the pictures of the sepia junk-food and the Carmen Miranda whole-food bodies every time you think about eating. Ms. Lay brings a potent, funny, step-by-brutally-honest-step to the canon of weight loss sagas."--Frances Kuffel, author of "Passing for Thin: Losing Half My Weight and Finding Myself"
""The Big Skinny" is the ultimate anti-diet book. With wit and artistic talent Lay delivers rational reasons why diets never last and offers healthy solutions to the all-too-common problem of obesity."--Stephanie Klein, author of "Moose: " A Memoir of Fat Camp
"Exploding with courage, kindness, and hilarity, The Big Skinny just might reveal a new law of physics: an ever-expanding mind can equal a shrinking waistline."--Marian Henley, author of "The Shiniest" "Jewel: " A Family Love Story
""The Big Skinny" is wonderfully appealing and always entertaining. Carol Lay really gets to the heart of things."--Kim Deitch, author of "The Boulevard of Broken Dreams"
"The world's first graphic memoir-cum-diet book...[Lay's] plainspoken commitment to the hard work of weight loss and ending the self-delusion that is, for her, at the heart of "fattitude" is refreshing amid a raft of newfangled diet fads that promiseeffortless, overnight results."--Salon.com
"The conversational tone and comfortable, engaging humor make the whole book read like a conversation with a dear friend... It's fun and funny, it's intelligent and helpful, and it's tremendously well drawn... The Big Skinny [is] a rewarding experience for those who need its expertise and even for those of us who just love great comics." --Newsarama
"Lay uses imaginative story lines to show it ain't easy... [she] looks weight in the eye with a sense of humor but that doesn't discount the poignant struggle." --seriouseats.com
"A lively graphic memoir about one California cartoonist's battle against the bulge--and how she emerged victorious." --"People"
"You can go to any bookstore and find a book by some bleach-toothed yahoo trying to sell you their faddy diet that can make you lose tons of weight in two weeks (provided you live on a diet of only grapefruit and sacrifice your firstborn child to Satan)...this is not practical, and will more than likely not produce good results... Lay advises to simply watch what you eat and exercise regularly, which is what any doctor or dietitian will tell you... Seeing [serving sizes] illustrated makes everything so much clearer than reading a description."--spill.com
"More like your favorite comic strip than another diet book, The Big Skinny offers a big serving of helpful, hilarious advice ... Her sharp wit and unflinching honesty ... just might inspire you to lose those extra 10 pounds and keep them off for good."--"Parade Magazine"
"The great Carol Lay's turn at graphic autobiography results in a diet and nutrition book... She employs her sharp eye and sharper pen to recount themetamorphosis in an entertaining, enlightening and heartfelt story --Miami Herald

Carol Lay's work has been published everywhere from The New Yorker and The Wall Street Journal to Glamour, Salon, and MAD magazine. Her weekly comic strip, "WayLay," has appeared in many papers here and abroad including the Hartford Courant, The San Francisco Examiner, LA Weekly, Salon, National Post, and Hong Kong Weekly, to name a few. She lives in Los Angeles.