The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl is the true story of how Shauna Reid lost half her body weight. Full of adventure, romance and chocolate, the book goes beyond the blog and spans seven years and seven jean sizes. While the blog lurches from topic to topic, the book reads like a novel -- action-packed, expanded and organized. It's raw and honest with all the gaping holes filled in where she screwed up and ran away from her blog. Inspiring, uplifting and entertaining, it has been named No. 1 on Marie Claire magazine's list of the Top Ten Diet Books.

Here's the synopsis from the back of the book:

"At just twenty-three years old, Shauna Reid weighed 351 pounds. Spurred into action by the sight of her enormous white knickers billowing on the clothesline, she created the hugely successful blog "The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl." Hiding behind her Lycra-clad, roly-poly alter-ego, her transformation from couch potato to svelte goddess began.

Today, eight thousand miles, seven years, and 175 pounds later, the gloriously gorgeous Shauna is literally half the woman she used to be. Hysterically funny and heart-wrenchingly honest, The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl includes travel tales from Australia to Paris to Red Square, plus romance when she meets the man of her dreams in a Scottish pub. This is the uplifting true story of a young woman who defeated her demons and conquered her cravings to become a real-life superhero to inspire us all."

What people are saying about Dietgirl:

"A buoyant, funny and immensely likable romp - for readers of all sizes." 
- People magazine, 4 star review


"Bookstores are fat with diet tales, but Reid's stands out. She's an entertaining, endearing writer -- funny, humble, honest, wise, and best of all, compassionate."
- Minneapolis Star Tribune


"This isn't a How-To slimming book, but it will help anyone to unleash their own inner superhero. She gives us a portrait of a person who turned wishing and dreaming into doing and having." 
- Amazon.co.uk review by Marla


"The book isn't just a cut-and-paste of her online posts, it contains so much more. I was reduced to tears several times, and chuckled out loud many times too. (I actually snorted and blew a snot bubble out my nose at one point) 
- Kek's BFL Thing

Dietgirl has been featured in ELLE, People, the Mail on Sunday, Marie Claire, the Daily Express, the Irish Independent, Who Weekly and Australian OK! Magazine just to name a few. There's also oodles of reader reviews on Amazon and in blogland.

Dietgirl is published by Harper Collins in the USA and Transworld in the UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere. It's available in bookshops or you can buy online. If you're having trouble tracking it down, The Book Depository does free worldwide shipping to many countries.

In the US, it's available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Powell's, Borders and Tower.

If you want to read the blog, click on the following link: the amazing adventures of dietgirl