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How Weight-Loss Surgery Transformed My Body and Messed with My Head
Seal Press
February 2013
On Sale: February 19, 2013
282 pages
ISBN: 1580054463
EAN: 9781580054461
Kindle: B00B6U181I
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Jen Larsen always thought that if she could only lose some weight, she would be unstoppable. She was convinced that once she found a way to not be fat any more, she would have the perfect existence sheβd always dreamed of. When diet after diet failed, she decided to try bariatric surgery, and it worked better than she ever could have dreamed: she lost 180 pounds. As the weight fell away, though, Larsen realized that getting skinny was not the magical cure she thought it would beβand suddenly, she wasnβt sure who she was anymore. Stranger Here is the brutally honest, surprisingly hilarious story of one womanβs journey from one extreme of the weight spectrum to the other, and of the unexpected emotional chaos it created. Insightful and unsparing in her self-examination, Larsen depicts the exhilarating highs and devastating lows she experienced as a result of her weight lossβthe incredible joy of finally beginning to look like the image of herself sheβs always carried inside her head, and the crushing pain and confusion of feeling like a stranger in her own body after losing the weight that has always defined her
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