"Readers will find themselves rooting almost immediately for someone honest enough to unflinchingly reveal the most embarrassing aspects of weighing 400-plus pounds...an inspirational debut." --Kirkus Reviews, Nov. 2007

 

 "Though consistently funny and entertaining, Blech pulls no punches regarding life with "The Body...."  The obese and their loved ones will gain practical advice as well as a large measure of insight, from this intense, bravura memoir."   Publisher's Weekly, (starred review)

 

"Discover Susan Blech's unsparing, heroic and big-hearted story." -- Shelf Awareness

"This book is motivation.  She can teach us about where we don't want to end up and inspire us with how far she has come." --

2007 and 2008! 

I confess. I never thought I'd write a book (with Caroline Bock, my sister!).   Born in the Bronx, and raised in New Rochelle, New York, I'm the third of four children brought up by my father. When I was one-and-a-half, my mother suffered a stroke, which resulted in lasting brain damage and paralysis -- more on this in Confessions of a Carb Queen.

In November of 2003,at 468.1 pounds, I moved to Durham, leaving friends and family, for the world renowned Rice Diet Program (for more info go to www.ricedietprogram.com) While in Durham, I developed motivational talks on weight loss and have been a featured speaker on several occasions at Duke University Medical Center. 

 

I would love to do more of these talks.  If you are part of interested group, please email me at info@susanblech.com.

I am now the Director of Patient Services at an incredible program -- Brookdale Hospital's childhood obesity program --Live Light, Live Right in Brooklyn, New York

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This free outreach program serves to educate city kids and their families in the neighbordhoods of Bedford Styvesant, East New York, Brownsville and among other Brooklyn areas about the dangers of obesity.  Find out more about this remarkable program go to livelightobesity.org.

 

 

And, for all the gripping, raw, and hopefully inspiring details of my life, yes, you know it...you must buy my memoir: Confessions of a Carb Queen by Susan Blech with Caroline Bock.

  

Caroline Bock, my sister and co-author,  will have her first novel published -- LIE by the prestigious St. Martin's Press!!!  No, it's not about weight-loss:) But I am so excited for her!

 

LIE is a gripping novel about teens and a murderous hate crime on Long Island.  Look for it in Fall, 2011.     

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