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Summary: At last!
Review: Absolutely the best book of its kind! Keep it in your car, listen regularly, follow her advice, and you will lose weight and re-program your eating and exercise habits. This book tells it like it is!! And it works!
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Summary: The Bottom Line Is, "You Can Say No To That Donut".
Review: I get up every day, when I don't want to. I go to work for 10 the 14 hours and I invest millions and millions of dollars for my clients, there life savings. I'm 35 years of age. I own my own home, I drive a luxury car and I make more money than most men. But, I can't say "NO" to a donut or a muffin? I can't order a piece of grilled chicken instead of a hamburger or a pizza? This is just crazy and Susan Estrich's book, "Making A Case for Yourself, A Diet Book for Smart Women" will bring you to reality. You want to lose weight? You can eat cabbage soup and fruit for just 3 days. You want to look like that picture you have of yourself in your mind? Then as Susan Estrich says, "I don't eat donuts"! Make a case for yourself, and to give yourself a little push with a great deal of humor and reality, read this book!
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Summary: A terrific pep talk that helped me lose 30 lbs!
Review: I see from other reviews, that many readers agree with me. This book finally gave me incentive and tools to lose weight. If you commit yourself to Susan's plan and shtick, you will too. I think it's well researched. Though not a doctor or nutritionist, Susan has tried almost every diet herself. My diet is now almost fat free, full of fruits, vegetables, and more lean protein. I use my "inner lawyer" to make the case for maintaining my new thin body! It's such a kick to be thin after many years of feeling I had to accept that age and weight-gain went hand-in-hand. Working-out was not enough. As Susan says, "You are fat because you don't eat right, and don't exercize enough for YOU."
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Summary: disappointing, sells out to beauty myths
Review: Susan Estrich is an exceptionally bright, capable woman, a highly respected, widely published Harvard Law School professor (at one point, anyway). It's disappointing that this accomplished woman would buy into the myth that as a size 14 "blob" she is somehow less of a person than she is as a size 6 skinny-minnie. Estrich is right on point when she concedes that our society values beauty and thinness, but I didn't expect her to succumb to what she once thought were "harmful and sexist attitudes," to advise readers to paint their fingernails, seduce someone, and buy new underwear rather than eat. Estrich's mission is to convince women that looking good and the quest for slimness are laudable goals. Refusing to acknowledge as much made her (the valedictorian turned law professor) feel "vain, foolish, and stupid in addition to fat." Her efforts are are directed toward becoming more physically attractive -- any concerns for health and nutrition are secondary. This book perpetuates the myth that a woman's worth depends on her weight. It does contain some tried-and-true diet advice, but a truly smart woman would seek guidance from Weight Watchers, not a law professor with a self-esteem issue.
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