Life in the Fat Lane

I read this a few years ago. Obviously, the book is about a perfect girl that becomes obese. She hates the way she looks and tries everything to shed the pounds, to the point where she diarrheas and throws up at the same time and falls asleep in her feces (disgusting). The whole theme of "accepting yourself" seems to contradict itself because the only reason she rids of her self hatred is because she starts to lose weight in the end.

Mixed feelings about this. The writing is very good and the storyline gets quite confronting when highlighting the treatment of fat girls by a harsh and unforgiving society - and the sad reality that people would rather lose an arm than be fat.The writer is spot on with Lara's feelings about gaining weight and her abject horror at 'being a thin person trapped in a fat person's body'. In saying that I hoped there would be a greater pay off for Lara after everything she went through; I would have liked the writer to expound on the benefits of not viewing girls through one lense only, to drive the point home thst we are more than our bodies and even though the world is superficial it is not that one-dimensional.

I loved the book and thought it was well written. I couldn't put it down! However I thought it exaggerated the fact of being fat. Some of the things said may be offending to overweight readers. Otherwise, read it! The beggining is a bit slow but give the book a chance cuz itts fantastic!