MAKING LIGHT OF BEING HEAVY – Tour & Review

From the Publisher: These days everyone has a society-driven mindset and totally forget to laugh, especially at themselves. This may be cliche but the author truly believes that laughter is the best medicine and thinks everybody should laugh every day. Period. Over the years as a person blessed with the fat gene, Kandy has been in many situations where if she could not find humor she probably would end up on the couch in the psychiatrist s office. This book is about as politically incorrect as it gets for such a subject but it is also based on reality. This is a reality that many women have just like Kandy but do not think they can (or should) at times just laugh about it. Her intention when she started writing this book was to hopefully give insight to many who could never relate but at the same time perhaps provide a different perspective to women just like her. It is a point of view that has given her the strength to live her life happily and project these feelings onto everyone she comes in contact with. She has a great sense of humor and a quick wit and guarantees you will be laughing (and thinking) with each chapter of Making Light of Being Heavy.

About the Author: Kandy Siahaya was raised in a small town in Maine where she graduated from high school in 1984.  She worked her way up from her first job as CSW to Manager of Kentucky Fried Chicken and ended up in Brunswick, Maine.  When she decided to leave the fried chicken business at age 22, she packed up her little Chevy Chevette and moved to Florida, where she worked as a waitress and had a great time as a single girl in her 20’s.

Reality hit when she was 25 years old and she went back to Maine and received her Associate’s Degree at Beal College and promptly moved back to Florida and started a career in medical transcription.  In 1995 at age 29, she moved to Miami, Florida, and continued with transcription starting her own business.

In 2002, Kandy left Florida and moved back to Maine with her 5-year-old son and continued medical transcription but had an unexpected decline in work which left her with a lot of time on her hands.  This is when she decided to write the book, something she had been thinking about for a few years but never had the time because she was always so busy with her business.  It was meant to be a quick and funny read, something to brighten the outlook of many that really do not see the light through their own tunnel vision.  It was also intended to be insightful for those that could never possibly relate to this specific subject.  Kandy has succeeded in doing just that with Making Light of Being Heavy.

For more information on Kandy and her book visit http://www.makinglightofbeingheavy.com

My Review:  Oh my gosh – did this book ever hit home!!! Bravo Kandy, for speaking out, and saying what so many of us feel. I’ve always let me weight define who I am (as many others have), but I’m tired of letting my size “weigh me down”.  Between the covers of this very thin book, are some very heavy thoughts…and ones that I can truly grasp.  Do I want to be fat? Of course not –  but am I willing to do what it really takes for me to look “normal”?  I’m coming to realize that I don’t think so…and that’s OK.  At least, that’s what I’m going to try to convince myself.    If only Kandy could give me a call every week or so, to give me a pep talk *sigh*.
  
* Thanks go to Pump Up Your Book Promotions for providing me with a copy.
 

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