Fat Chance-My Big Fat Gastric Band Adventure Quotes

“It was such an odd feeling for me. A boy, being interested in what I was thinking and feeling at the first meeting! My head was screaming all sorts of things at me: ‘Does this mean you’re attractive now? Does this mean you’re going to start dating boys now? Is this what your life is going to be now? Dating boys?”
― Melanie Tait, Fat Chance-My Big Fat Gastric Band Adventure

“She was the loveliest, warmest woman, but I felt The Fat had led to a lack of self-esteem in her (like it had in all of us) which had caused her to settle for a life she hadn’t planned on having.”
― Melanie Tait, Fat Chance-My Big Fat Gastric Band Adventure

“I wanted to be anorexic, but healthily anorexic. Able to come back from the brink, but never be so skinny that hair started sprouting in the wrong places and bones protruded anywhere they shouldn’t.”
― Melanie Tait, Fat Chance-My Big Fat Gastric Band Adventure