Big Girl (Miller)

Discussion Questions
Use our LitLovers Book Club Resources; they can help with discussions for any book:

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Also, consider these LitLovers talking points to get a discussion started for Big Girl...then take off on your own:

1. Talk about Kelsey Miller's struggle with food and weight loss. How does that compare with your own food issues? How are your experiences with eating and dieting similar to, or different from, Kelsey's?

2. Do you...or did you ever...have the "Food Police" watching over and judging you?

3. Talk about Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resche and their Intuitive Eating program. How does it differ from all the other approaches that Kelsey has tried? Do you think Intuitive Eating would work for you?

4. Miller talks about doing stints with Weight Watchers, Atkins, Jenny Craig, or the Type O Diet. What diet programs have you been on...and with what degree of success?

5. Miller writes about the deeper reasons at the root of her bingeing and dieting? What are those deeper reasons; what does she suggest drives her compulsive eating? If you, too, are a compulsive eater, have you considered any underlying causes?

6. Do you think Miller tends to substitute one obsession for another? If so, in what way? And is that a pattern that feels familiar to you?

7. What does Miller mean when she says losing weight is more about process than product?

(Questions by LitLovers. Please feel free to use them, online or off, with attribution. Thanks.)

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