Fat Fit & Feeling Fabulous

""This book started as a way of showing God's victory, but victory is not always the way we think it will be,"" writes Biggs at the conclusion of this inspiring, candid memoir about weight loss and exercise. At more than 300 pounds, the Scottish physician decided that her weight, and the depression and sense of failure she associated with it, required her to start exercising seriously. She set a goal to become an Ironwoman, capable of competing in a triathlon race that requires 2.4 miles of swimming in open water, 112 miles of biking and a grueling full marathon. Injuries have prevented her from completely attaining this goal, but she is undeterred. (""If at first you don't succeed,"" she quips, ""tri, tri again!"") This memoir, she says, is not a story of how God took a fat person and magically changed her into a thin one; Biggs still weighs 260 pounds. It is, rather, a remarkable tale of transformation from the inside out. Readers will enjoy this still-in-process story of a courageous, honest and funny woman who dares to be fat but fit.