Full name: Stranger Here: How Weight-Loss Surgery Transformed My Body and Messed with My Head

Author: Jen Larsen Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Memoirs, Non Fiction, Health, Self help Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781580054461 1580054463

The brutally honest, surprisingly hilarious story of one woman's journey from one extreme of the weight spectrum to the other, and of the unexpected emotional chaos it created. Jen Larsen always thought that if she could only lose some weight, she would be unstoppable. So when diet after diet failed, she decided to try bariatric sugery. It worked better than she ever dreamed--she lost 180 pounds! As the weight fell away, though, Larsen realized that getting skinny was not the cure she thought it would be--and that suddenly she wasn't sure who she was anymore. Insightful and unsparing in her self-examination, Larsen depicts the devastating lows and exhilarating highs she experienced as a result of her weight loss--the crushing pain and confusion of feeling like a stranger in her own body after losing the weight that has always defined her, and the incredible joy of finally beginning to look like the image of herself she's always carried inside her head. Similar books: Big Girl by Kelsey Miller The Big Tiny by Dee Williams Once More We Saw Stars by Jayson Greene Down the Rabbit Hole by Holly Madison Half-Assed by Jennette Fulda Naturally Tan by Tan France Toil & Trouble by Augusten Burroughs The Camera My Mother Gave Me by Susanna Kaysen Thin Is the New Happy by Valerie Frankel The Last Best Cure by Donna Jackson Nakazawa A Bittersweet Season by Jane Gross The Undertaker's Daughter by Kate Mayfield Enjoy Every Sandwich by Lee Lipsenthal Not Quite What I Was Planning by Rachel Fershleiser Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes Life in a Day by Doris Grumbach Ongoingness: The End of a Diary by Sarah Manguso Nervous System by Jan Lars Jensen Survival Lessons by Alice Hoffman Gaining by Aimee Liu