Losing It: And Gaining My Life Back One Pound at a Time, by Valerie Bertinelli

On the NBC-TV program "The Doctors" Friday, 2/06/09, the special guest was Valerie Bertinelli. For your information, below is the biography I found on Google.

Valerie Bertinelli charmed a nation of television watchers in the 1970s with the enormously popular comedy, "One Day at A Time". The show spoke to a nation of divorced families, where the single mother relied on charitable efforts of friends and neighbors in order to survive one more day filled with typical life stressors.

Flash forward decades later and Valerie herself is divorced, with a son that she shares with uber-famous rocker, Eddie Van Halen. Still trying to maintain her celebrity status in the face of inner turmoil, Valerie alleges in her new memoir, "Losing It" that she turned to junk food to soothe and to self-harm.

She brings up multiple issues with self-esteem, as characterized by her infidelity, drug use and food abuse. Whether promulgated from show-business or a deeper, more complex and personal issue, Valerie reassures us in her new book that it's normal to have unrealistic expectations about your body and shows how the Jenny Craig program taught her to reach, and even exceed, her weight loss goals.

Lorraine here: I'm not suggesting that you join Jenny Craig. If you have a problem with emotional eating, this book might be helpful. Losing It: And Gaining My Life Back One Pound at a Time (308 pages) is available at Amazon.com for less than $20. Also, you can read a portion of the book on Amazon.