TY - BOOK AU - Barlow,Gary TI - A better me SN - 9781911600978 (hbk.) : AV - ML420 U1 - 920 BAR 23 PY - 2018/// CY - London PB - Blink KW - Barlow, Gary, KW - Take That (Musical group) KW - Rock musicians KW - Great Britain KW - Biography KW - Singers KW - eflch KW - ukslc N2 - Gary Barlow is one of the most successful British musicians and songwriters of all time, but fifteen years ago, as he himself admits, he hit rock bottom - he was out of shape, out of work, depressed. Food for him had become an addiction, a means not only of comfort but almost of self-medication as he grappled with the cruel twists of fate of musical stardom. In 2003, as he struggled with the disappointment of an underperforming solo career alongside the tireless media taunts; Gary turned to food. Relentlessly. In the space of nine years he had been on 20 diets in the hopes of a resolution to all his woes. In his extraordinarily honest memoir 'A Better Me,' Gary tells of his journey back to professional success and mental and physical health ER -