"My body is shrinking, and soon I will be in territory I've never been in - I've lost weight before, gotten down to the two-teens, but after that, what happens? What will I look like, and how will I feel, and how is my body going to change? I have spent my entire life plump, chubby, overweight, fat, obese - who I am has been shaped by who I have been, and if you catch me off-guard, and ask me point blank, I will tell you: I like the person I am, the reader, the writer, the bad-joke-teller, the oversensitive person I am and would not be if I had not grown up looking the way I did and feeling the way I did. And now I am undoing all that, film spinning in reverse and I am becoming lighter, less substantial and solid, turning into something I am afraid I will not recognize."

Anne just nailed the incredibly frightening aspect of weight loss for so, so many people. And while the context is not the same for each of us - Anne recently had weight-loss surgery, for example - the feeling is universal for many an overweight person.

You all really need to be reading this woman. She's brilliant.

Posted by Erin at 12:09 PM | filed under: Inspiration

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