Introduction: How My Life Changed with One Sentence
CHAPTER 1: Four Big Fat Lies About Weight and Health
When Doctors Can’t See Beyond Weight (Pattie)
No Such Thing as a Fat Athlete (Liv)
CHAPTER 2: The Amazing! Seventeen-Day! Flat-Belly! Grain-Brain! Biggest Loser! Raw Food! Diet
How I Keep It Off—For Now (Debra)
In Recovery from Dieting (Mandy)
The End Justifies the Means (Joslyn)
CHAPTER 3: Good Food, Bad Food
I Wore Shorts This Summer (Alyssa)
Learning to Live with Food (Kelsey)
CHAPTER 4: Money, Motivation, and the Medical Machine
The Doctor Thought I Was Lying (Terri)
My Doctor Wouldn’t Touch Me (Kate)
CHAPTER 5: The Truth About Beauty
My Husband Tells Me I’m Beautiful, But . . . (Shannon)
My Mother’s Worst Nightmare (Ellen)
CHAPTER 6: It’s All in How You Look at It
The Worst Kind of Judgment (Pat)
I Do Not Have a Disease (Lizabeth)
How I Started to Learn to Love My Body (Dawn)