Readers will follow one man's remarkable 192-month journey as he loses seventeen thousand pounds and about half of his sanity. If you've ever embarked on a diet and failed, you might feel alone in a world seemingly filled with happy, smiling, thin people on late-night infomercials. Why were they able to eat all their favorite foods while the pounds melted away and you gained twelve pounds in three weeks eating nothing but carrots? If this paints your world, then this just might be the next book you need to read. Readers will learn why the last diet failed and find out exactly why it won't possibly help on the next one. It's a humorous, semi-autobiographical commentary on weight loss and our culture's obsession with the topic.