I’m Not the New Me

I’m Not the New Me

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I’m Not the New Me takes a hilarious and sometimes poignant look at the absurdities of weight loss culture. It’s a memoir of the author’s struggle to define herself both online and in the flesh. As a self-proclaimed dieting fat girl, she traces her journey in uneasy steps leading her to a karaoke stage in Vegas, a scale at a garage sale, a Weight Watchers meeting in a bleak office basement, and finally to her website Pound, the universe she created for herself when she couldn’t see herself as a kicky Success Story.

INTNM is about coming to terms with a family heritage of fat and drastic surgeries, and about self-esteem issues that are nobody’s business but your own. It’s wondering what’s left of yourself after you lose weight—and just who the hell you are if you gain it back. It’s about the absurdities of online personas and fat girl clichés, and the sheer terror of appearing live and in person in your very own life.

“There is no self-pity, self-hate or perky self-help, just the thoughts of a really astute writer.…McClure is able to craft lines so funny and caustic that readers of all shapes and genres should go back to savor them.” —USA Today

“The great American obesity epidemic has given rise to its own literary subgenre.…This wicked, paradoxically lean example chronicles McClure’s overeating, her love-hate cycles with Weight Watchers, her rationalizations. And what it’s like to binge, postbreakup, on hamburger buns sprayed with I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter!…I’m Not the New Me is, in every way, tastier and more filling than that. And so much better for you.” —Time

“A brave, bittersweet look at weight, loss, and elusive happy endings. If you’ve ever shopped in the big-girl ghetto, endured a bad boyfriend, or tried to count a vodka-and-cranberry as a Weight Watcher fruit, I’m Not the New Me is for you.” —Jennifer Weiner