A weight-loss memoir that’s, like, totes emosh

In 1985, Jules Coll’s senior infants school report read thus: “Julie-Ann is enthusiastic about her work and gives it her best effort. However, she finds failure difficult to accept and gets upset if she does not succeed.” This, coupled with a number of other variables – metabolism, hormones, a full-blown sugar addiction – saw the Dubliner tip the scales at 19 stone in her 20s.

On the surface of it, Coll wasn’t letting ...