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Running With Angels: The Inspiring Journey of a Woman Who Turned Personal Tragedy into Triumph Over Obesity |
Author: Pamela H. Hansen
Published: 2005-04-30 |
List price: $14.95
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Customer comments on this selection.
 very motivational!
This book is great! I love it and couldn't put it down. Gives lots of motivation...if she could, so can I! What a woman!
 Now I want to run a marathon
Isn't it wonderful when you find a book that makes you want to train to do a marathon as well? For years that had been this woman's goal, but her personal life was full of so much heartbreak it was impossible for her to spend anytime on herself. Pamela's story is very personal and real, something to which I imagine anyone could relate. She is a real woman with a real family and real problems, though I don't admit to have experienced the same tragedies she did.
 Not so good
I picked up this book at the Library the other day. It is really terribly sad what this woman and her family has struggled through, however, I thought it was too much about her "loss" of children and not about her weight "loss". I really sympathize with her tragedies and wonder how one can truly hold it together while dealing with life. However, the reason I got the book was for its "journey of a woman struggling with obesity". While reading the back cover of the book it focuses and leads the reader to believe that the book is about trying to reach goals, particularly weight loss goals, and her struggles and successes with weight. I think this book is best as a self help book for families dealing with losses and not a weight loss book. The whole Mormon religion/blessings throughout the book was a bit too much for me as well. Pass.
Wonderful, very moving....
Don't read this book without some tissues! Loved it, loved it, loved it!
Inspiring
To me this book was not so much about losing weight, grieving and running as about setting goals and doing your best to reach them even when it's hard. It's also about making time for yourself, prioritizing, having a postive self image, and just doing the best that you can. I enjoyed the book all except after she lost 50 pounds, it stopped telling the story and started talking for a long time about random stories of how she felt when people looked at her, etc. It seemed out of place and too long but that may be because I don't have those kind of feelings. I'm sure a lot of other people would relate to the stories. Over all it's very good and inspiring and I would recommend it to any woman even if they weren't struggling with weight.
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