Confessions of a Carb Queen

A Memoir

By: Susan Blech, Caroline Bock

Narrated by: Aimee Jolson

By the time Susan Blech was 38 years old, she weighed a staggering 468.1 pounds. She binged. She was "only a little chubby," or so she convinced herself.

Gripping, sometimes shocking, and ultimately inspiring, Confessions of a Carb Queen is the story of how Susan changed her life to save her life, ultimately losing 250 pounds without surgery.

Susan speaks candidly about eating binges, fat sex, and other topics no obese person has dared to address as she recounts her transformation from a vulnerable woman to one charged with willpower and courage. Her powerful story is a blend of memoir, advice, and delicious, health-conscious recipes that will inspire all who listen to it.

©2008 Susan Blech and Caroline Bock (P)2014 Audible Inc.

this was such an amazing book!

this book was totally inspiring to me! if you're looking for a book to help you stay on track or just keep you there, this one is it. will read/ listen to again for sure!

Reader Comments

Reading the story of Susan Blech is motivational. This memoir is highly recommend to those that are working to lose weight. Just reading stories like Susan's provides the much needed motivation that you have been seeking.

insightful and great listen

Would you listen to Confessions of a Carb Queen again? Why?

inspiring

What did you like best about this story?

her courage and candor

Which character – as performed by Aimee Jolson – was your favorite?

Sue or the cook at the Clinic

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

You Cant Believe I ate the Whole Thing- and that was just the warm up

Negative reviews are ridiculous.

There are a lot of negative written reviews, but the star rating is higher than the ratings for the books these reviewers preferred to this book. This book was, indeed, rather outrageous in the sense that I wouldn't gift it to an Amish person or someone who wears their underwear up to their ribs, but it was not in any way, horrible. Sure, Susan has major problems in this book, how else would she get to be nearly 500 lbs? She has a messed up, cranky dad and an invalid and absent mother who was never able to set an example for her. She doesn't behave like normal people, she is addicted to food like other people are addicted to cocaine or heroine. Food ruins her life every day, gets in the way of her relationships with other people, and she is sad inside. She has problems with men, mostly because she has no respect for herself. There are millions of people out there with problems like this or even worse- they just don't spill their guts out about it and if they do, it is only about weight and how they lost it- not their life, too. Susan shares her crazy life, and frankly, it is a lot more interesting than the fact that she lost weight. The situations she gets herself into and the way she handles them are the whole point of this book. She is kind of a mess, and you will probably roll your eyes, but in the end- you realize you enjoyed yourself anyway.

Inspiring - a look inside an obese's womans life

What made the experience of listening to Confessions of a Carb Queen the most enjoyable?

That I could relate with her and listen to what her thoughts were. That she was being open and honest. I really enjoyed the narrator and could visualize the things happening as she read.