It Was Me All Along: A Memoir

And if, by chance, you were able to attend my twentieth birthday party, you, too, missed a fabulous cake.” See? Somebody else might have begun her mournful story of bingeing and dieting and other eating disorders with an admonition or a complaint: Mitchell starts it with a joke. (Some things, as a friend of mine once said, are too serious NOT to joke about.) She then goes on to tell us the whole sad-and-funny story: of a father who loved her but not, ultimately, as much as his alcohol, about a caterer-mother who taught, perhaps too well, the young Andie to bake, about the friends who stuck by her as she careened from mood to mood and weight to weight, of the boys who did, too (and a few who did not). Now a health and food blogger at canyoustayfordinner, Mitchell has become an inspiring thin person – but to readers of this delightful memoir, she

She lives in New York City, where she is the social media director for ShriverReport. . ANDIE MITCHELL is a writer, recipe developer, and lover of cake. Her popular blog, CanYouStayForDinner, shares the inspiring story of her successful weight loss and continued passion for good food

More than anything, though, it is the story of her finding beauty in acceptance and learning to love all parts of herself.Includes a PDF of Andie Mitchell’s Sour Cream Fudge Cake recipe.. This story is about much more than a woman who loves food and abhors her body. 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. It is about someone who made changes when her situation seemed too far gone and how she discovered balance in an off-kilter world. Food was her babysitter, her best friend, her confidant, and it provided a refuge from her fractured family. A heartbreakingly honest, endearing memoir of incredible weight loss by a young food blogger who battles body image issues and

Good Reading - Not a Diet Book It Was Me All Along a memoir by Andie Mitchell didn’t inspire me in the way that I was expecting but it did reinforce many of the thoughts and ideas I have used for weight loss in the past. I found that it was indeed thought provoking. I thought that it was very well written with vivid descriptions. It may be that th. Well-written, Real, and Realisic, for the Most Part As someone who has lost 190 pounds myself, I identified with Andie Mitchell's feelings and struggles to some degree, although our stories were very different. I give her "props" for losing her weight and keeping it off on the first attempt, which is both unusual and statistically improbable. The key is that she looked at h. "Would like a bit more" according to ellyeereviews. This memoir chronicles a young woman's addiction to food and her recovery. It describes the all too common foundation for this type of eating disorder in family dysfunction. She takes us on an intimate and painful journey through compulsive overeating to compulsive exercising and calorie counting, to the ultimate change wh