It Was Me All Along: A Memoir

By Andie Mitchell

Book Overview

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A heartbreakingly honest, endearing memoir of incredible weight loss by a young food blogger who battles body image issues and overcomes food addiction to find self-acceptance. All her life, Andie Mitchell had eaten lustily and mindlessly. Food was her babysitter, her best friend, her confidant, and it provided a refuge from her fractured family. But when she stepped on the scale on her twentieth birthday and it registered a shocking 268 pounds, she knew she had to change the way she thought about food and herself; that her life was at stake. It Was Me All Along takes Andie from working class Boston to the romantic streets of Rome, from morbidly obese to half her size, from seeking comfort in anything that came cream-filled and two-to-a-pack to finding balance in exquisite (but modest) bowls of handmade pasta. This story is about much more than a woman who loves food and abhors her body. It is about someone who made changes when her situation seemed too far gone and how she discovered balance in an off-kilter world. More than anything, though, it is the story of her finding beauty in acceptance and learning to love all parts of herself.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0770433251
• ISBN13: 9780770433253
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Clarkson Potter Publishers
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

If it is to be it is up to me.

Weight is only controlled by the person wearing it. All excuses a just that.

condescending bulls**t

The bottom line of this horrible, blame-the-fatty, condescending piece of garbage is the title. Nevermind that we have learned that dieting doesn't work, that our shallow, youth and thinness-obsessed culture hates on fat people, or that the diet industry has been LYING to us for decades - NO. It's all the fatty's fault, because fat people are too stupid to feed themselves properly. But if you read this book, you will learn that it's not our fat-shaming culture's fault that people experience hatred just for existing, it is YOUR fault for simply eating too much. Yep. IT WAS YOU ALL ALONG!