Finding It: And Satisfying My Hunger for Life Without Opening the Fridge

Written by Valerie Bertinelli

Narrated by Valerie Bertinelli

In 2008, Valerie Bertinelli’s #1 bestseller, Losing It, connected with fans of multiple generations and spent a remarkable 8 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list. Now in paperback Finding It shares Valerie's conflicted, humorous, and highly personal tale of her continuing search for answers to life's big questions.

Welcome back to chez Bertinelli, where life is as crazy and comical as ever. In revealing talks with her longtime boyfriend, Tom, Valerie gets even more personal about her inner worries: her maternal anxieties about her son, Wolfie (he’s fallen in love and, as she writes, “getting your sex talk from Eddie Van Halen wasn’t recommended in any of the parenting books I read”); the challenges of dealing with a blended family; her mother’s own new diet adventure; and a craving for a deeper relationship with a Higher Power (“I have experienced days of inner peace and connectedness with a larger spirit—twice,” she writes. “Why not more often?”). And as if these everyday challenges weren’t enough, Valerie is working to maintain her own very public weight loss and approaching her fiftieth birthday. This is the story of what happens after you change your life. And it’s not all peaches and cream, or even low-fat yogurt.

This inspiring memoir, from the beloved actress and author of the bestseller Losing It, is an optimistic story for trying times. Warm and friendly, honest and self-aware—with the same winning wit and candor that touched a generation of fans in Losing It—Finding It is about working on all the reasons we gain weight in the first place so that it doesn’t happen again. It’s about becoming better, not just thinner. And it’s about believing in love and happiness, having faith that both are possible, and finding out that God does want you to enjoy life’s desserts—even when you’re on a diet.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
• Release date: Oct 6, 2009
• ISBN: 9780743598378

Valerie Bertinelli

VALERIE BERTINELLI is an actress and TV personality, best known for starring in the 70’s sitcom One Day at a Time. She now hosts the Emmy Award–winning Food Network show Valerie’s Home Cooking as well as Kids Baking Championship. She is the author of Losing It: And Gaining My Life Back One Pound at a Time, and the follow-up Finding It: And Satisfying My Hunger for Life without Opening the Fridge, as well as Valerie’s Home Cooking and One Dish at a Time.

Reviews for Finding It

[Stephanie · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Valerie Bertinelli is so real and relatable, just so kind and sweet

[Linda Valadez · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I love biographies and autobiographies even if I am not a fan of the person.!I love to see how they thought, what they did, and get an idea of how they affected or interacted with others. This book gives a view of part of Valerie Bertinellis’ life, which was inspirational in how it revealed how she upwardly evolved physically, mentally and spiritually during the time period she addressed. It was especially effective to have her narrating the book. Her vocal expressiveness and conversational delivery style makes it a “good read.” It’s like a natural flowing conversation, though monologue, that is relaxed, honest, that could be a part of a shared heart to heart conversation over a leisurely and pleasant coffee date with an intimate friend. Thank you for sharing and Bertinelli. Whether you have kept the weight off or not, thank you for sharing the raw humanity of your experiences. You have used your platform well.

[meggo_2 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

This is the follow up book to Losing It, which documented Bertinelli's well-publicized work to lose weight. This book is more the story of maintenance, and the emotional and physical changes it wrought. A light read, but an enjoyable one, as Bertinelli is such a likeable person, one can't help but wish her well in her quest.