01492cam a2200217 i 4500 510276448 TxAuBib 20141217120000.0 000000|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781600913297 24.0000 1600913296 24.0000 TxAuBib rda Dvir, Freidy. A Lighter Burden : One Woman't Journey From Obesity To Serenity / by Dvir, Freidy. Israel Bookshop Publications, 12.17.14. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Freidy. A regular woman (or maybe not) who takes up more than double the regular amount of space. Her excess weight sends her on a years-long search for svelte serenity, described in this book with pain, honesty, tears and humor. You are invited to shoulder some of the burden for a little while. This story was first published as a serial in the Hebrew Mishpacha magazine's B'toch HaMishpacha. The stormy reactions it garnered were the final impetus behind her decision to turn those weekly columns into a book. Her search for a solution to her weight problem led her down many roads, until she found the one that worked for her - bariatric surgery. In the end, she discovered it was "worth the weight, as she finally found what it was she'd been looking for all those years. <br>This is not just a book about weight loss it's a book about life. 20141217.