I was not impressed with this book at all. The author was extremely pessimistic about everyone and everything throughout the whole book. It was almost like she hated everyone that was thinner than she was because she was jealous. But on the same note she hated everyone that was fat because she "didn't want to be infected with their disease." I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone. It was packed with negative comments and information that I don't need to know about the author like how she needs to shave her pubic hair or "beard" as she calls it. There was really no "turning point" in this book where the author "found her self" so I don't even understand how she came up with the title. Don't waste your time on this one.

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What a great retelling of a woman's struggle to become the "new" her - she finds joy in things that many of us overlook. Her life was not all "happily ever after" once she lost weight either. This woman is real, raw, and worth reading!

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I love this book...it reminds us that we are more than the size and shape or our bodies.

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I got half way through the book and just couldn't seem to finish it - it seemed somewhat humorous in the beginning but I just couldn't get into it for some reason. Seemed like a fun book to read but it could have been the mood(s) I was in at the time I would read it.

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Fast reading...even if you only have mild weight issues, you will admire Kuffel's ability to put words to the feelings and to crystallize the daily experiences of one who is "too big". The book is inspirational; however, I was disappointed to find on further research that Kuffel is now writing a book about weight-loss relapse.

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I almost quit reading this book after the first few chapters. Her descriptions of how obsessed she was with food and how much she ate was turning my stomach. She is a deeply unhappy person who was using food as a drug and companion. I was surprised by how brutally honest she was. It's about a person who spent so much money and time eating that she didn't know how to be a healthy adult. This is not a book about happily ever after, but about a woman discovering what she can do with her talents without her body getting in the way.

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I thought she was pessimistic and I never got to like her. She does talk about the problems of adjusting to a new smaller body but she gives too many irrelevant details that I didn't want to know.

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Interesting insight into the mind of a woman who lost over half her weight. It's not a weight loss book, but more about the real life thoughts after losing weight.

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I enjoyed sections of this book, but on the whole, it was too long and repetitive.

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