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Top of Mind with Julie Rose

New Year Special, Olive the Lionheart, Shark Friends

Episode: New Year Special, Olive the Lionheart, Shark Friends

  • Dec 29, 2020 9:00 pm
  • 18:45 mins

Losing weight is one of the most common resolutions people make for a New Year. More than half of Americans are overweight, but journalist Tommy Tomlinson was on the extreme end of the scale. In Tomlinson’s memoir, called "The Elephant in the Room: One Fat Man’s Quest to Get Smaller in a Growing America", he talks about how after trying every diet out there, there was emotional work to be done. (Originally aired February 27, 2019).