Jeff Garlin is funny. I mean very very funny. He's one of those guys you look at and expect to laugh. Prior to reading his book, my footprint: carrying the weight of the world, I had only really been exposed to him on Letterman. His book is out and out honest and hilarious. He tries to lose weight and become more eco-friendly or "green" at the same time. This all occurs during the filming of a season of Curb Your Enthusiasm. I have never seen this show, but I will now need to track down the dvd's and give it a try. If it is half as funny as this book, I will enjoy it.
Here are some standout excerpts from the book:
"My meditation today is about being satisfied with enough. What is enough....when it comes to, say, cookies? One, a few, a half dozen? When it comes to cookies, once you get sick, you've had enough."
"I am certainly not handy. If it wouldn't take so long, I would tell you the story of when I tried to caulk and ended up with caulk in my mouth, and I called the poison control center, and they thought I said I had cock in my mouth. Well, I guess I just told you."
"Guilt makes me overeat. That's today's meditation. I have to say that, yes, I overeat because of guilt. I've overeaten because I'm sad. I've overeaten because of happiness. I've overeaten because the wind blew in a different direction."
"My daily meditation is about how we are willing to go to any lengths to stop eating compulsively. It assumes we are willing, when it should actually say that if we are serious, then we should be willing. Truth be told, it's rare for a fat, compulsive overeater to hit bottom like an alcoholic or a drug addict. No one is ever about to lose their job because they ate too much at lunch. Nobody looks in his friend's eyes and can tell he's had too many cookies."
"Every now and then I try to set an example for other people. And I mean that in the sense that other people should look at me as an example of what they don't want to become."
He is funny and after reading this I just wanted to give him a big hug. Read this book.
