My Footprint

Carrying the Weight of the World

By: Jeff Garlin

Narrated by: Jeff Garlin

Jeff Garlin shares his hysterical and eye-opening journey to reduce his waistline and his carbon footprint during the production of the seventh season of HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm

Jeff Garlin has dedicated the filming of an entire season of Curb Your Enthusiasm to completely making over his lifestyle in two major ways—by lightening his physical and his ecological footprints. After many false starts, he believes that writing a book about the experiment is the only possible way to help him lose weight and go green.

The hardest part of the endeavor is overcoming his food addiction—especially when craft service has a constant buffet of everything delicious you could imagine on set. In addition to cutting calories, Jeff accidentally falls into a love affair with pilates, sweats with Richard Simmons, and twice visits the Pritikin Longevity Center, which he says is "rehab for people who eat too much pizza." Larry David’s rooting for him. Jerry Seinfeld’s plotting against him. And his wife is just plain annoyed by everything.

As far as going green, Jeff has always been a big recycler, but he has a lot to learn. For example, actor Ed Begley Jr. is the guy to call if you want to reduce your environmental impact. Jeff does, and it changes everything.

He hopes that being healthy and green becomes a big part of who he is—if not now, when?

Hysterical

Would you listen to My Footprint again? Why?

Yes. Jeff is a riot and I could relate to the food issues.

Who was your favorite character and why?

His wife- loved the parts about her. It felt like my marriage.

I enjoyed this book.

I struggle with food addiction and was able to relate to so many things in this book.

Thoroughly enjoyed every step of the journey

This has to be one of my favorite audiobooks. Jeff's story is very funny and he is brutally honest with his struggles at weight loss and recycling. I loved the concept of "as read to Leonard Nimoy". Leonard played a small but funny part chiming in occasionally.

If you are looking for a good laugh you absolutely cannot go wrong here. Plus you'll learn a little about reducing your own footprint (actual and carbon).

Honest Account of a Difficult Journey

Thanks, Jeff, for sharing your many lapses, slips and other mishaps along the way to a more healthy and environmentally-conscious lifestyle. You managed to keep it funny and you demonstrated the value of authenticity and openness about matters that are a source of shame.

An ok listen

I wouldn't consider this a largely funny listen, lot of truths in the authors statements but had only a couple of laughs from the entire book.