Not for me - self loathing, fat shaming, and unhealthy friendships

Ok, I will preface by saying I did manage to finish this book, but had to skim read a bit to get there. The ending was predictable but brought the rating up a star for me.

I went into this story expecting a “broke woman wins the lottery, now follow along as she improves her life but learns money isn’t all the answer” type story.

Instead, I got “already wealthy woman who is obsessed with, and loathes, her overweight body spends the story getting fit and losing weight and doesn’t even claim the lottery money throughout the main part of the story” (the outcome of the lottery money is one you’ll need to discover if you read this, as it’s a plot point, but it isn’t resolved one way or another until the epilogue.

So, I didn’t get the story I was expecting, but that doesn’t have to be a bad thing. However, the MFC’s obsession with her weight, and the way some of her so called friends talk to her about it, was yuck, and came from a place of self loathing rather than a desire to be healthier stemming from love for herself. She was also a pretty crappy friend, surrounded by people who were generally also not super like-able.

Then, basically the story felt like chapters and chapters of “how to exercise and diet based on outdated concepts of nutrition and exercise” mixed with some “you can find love with an average looking man but you still better be attractive”.

Underwhelming, and not for me.

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