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1. www.npr.org › 2019/01/20 › 686945060He Was 460 Pounds. What Confronting His Weight Taught ... - NPR

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   Jan 20, 2019 · Courtesy of Simon & Schuster. For as long as he can remember, Tommy Tomlinson has understood his identity as inseparable from his body. "I weigh 460 pounds," Tomlinson begins in an essay published ...

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3. tommytomlinson.com › bioBio – Tommy Tomlinson

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   Tommy Tomlinson is the author of the memoir The Elephant In the Room (Simon & Schuster, 2019), about life as an overweight man in a growing America. His new book, Dogland, about the Westminster Dog Show, comes out in April 2024. Tommy is the host of the podcast “ SouthBound ” at WFAE, Charlotte’s NPR station, and he also does weekly ...

4. www.theatlantic.com › ideas › archiveWhy a Dog’s Death Hits So Hard - The Atlantic

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   Apr 23, 2024 · Tommy Tomlinson is the author of the memoir The Elephant in the Room and the host of the podcast SouthBound. He lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with his wife, her mother, and a cat named Jack ...

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   Who is Tommy Tomlinson?

   • Tommy Tomlinson is the author of the memoir The Elephant In the Room (Simon & Schuster, 2019), about life as an overweight man in a growing America. His new book, Dogland, about the Westminster Dog Show, comes out in April 2024.

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   How much does Tommy Tomlinson weigh?

   • For as long as he can remember, Tommy Tomlinson has understood his identity as inseparable from his body. "I weigh 460 pounds," Tomlinson begins in an essay published this month in The Atlantic, and adapted from his upcoming book, The Elephant in the Room: One Fat Man's Quest to Get Smaller in a Growing America.

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   Why did Tomlinson study his family history?

   • He spoke about how he studied his family history to better understand his relationship with food. Tomlinson grew up poor in the Deep South, with parents who picked cotton as kids and moved into factory work by the time he was born. "Every workday their whole lives they burned off thousands and thousands of calories just at work," he said.

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   Did Tomlinson lose weight?

   • That was Tomlinson four years ago. Today, for the first time in 50 years, he's been able to lose weight and successfully keep it off. Getting there wasn't easy. He knew how to drop the pounds. He would eat fewer calories and burn more.

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6. www.axios.com › local › charlotteCharlotte writer Tommy Tomlinson releases new book about the ...

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   Apr 22, 2024 · For Tommy Tomlinson, the curiosity about how the dogs in these prestigious shows felt took him down a three-year journey. Why it matters: One of Charlotte's most admired writers, Tomlinson is out Tuesday with a new book, "Dogland," about his exploration of the dog show world. The nonfiction work follows his popular 2019 memoir, "The Elephant in ...

7. www.ajc.com › lifestyles › healthTomlinson talks weight loss in new book 'Elephant in the Room'

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   Jan 17, 2020 · At his heaviest, “The Elephant in the Room” author Tommy Tomlinson weighed 460 pounds. Through diet and exercise, he has lost about 100 pounds over the last six years. Contributed. On New Year ...

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9. www.npr.org › podcasts › 563130946SouthBound : NPR

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   Apr 24, 2024 · This week on SouthBound, host Tommy Tomlinson talks to Alice Randall, who became the first Black woman with a writing credit on a #1 country song with Trisha Yearwood's 1994 hit "XXXs and OOOs ...

10. tommytomlinson.com › the-elephant-in-the-roomThe Elephant In the Room – Tommy Tomlinson

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    Tommy Tomlinson, author of The Elephant in the Room, acclaimed journalist and host of WFAE’s SouthBound podcast. Photo by Jeff Cravotta for WFAE. When he was almost fifty years old, Tommy Tomlinson weighed an astonishing — and dangerous — 460 pounds, at risk for heart disease, diabetes, and stroke, unable to climb a flight of stairs ...