Betsy Lerner, Food and Loathing: A Life Measured Out in Calories

"Nothing was a more powerful compass of my mood or a better indication of my self-worth than the number on the scale."

Betsy Lerner, Food and Loathing: A Life Measured Out in Calories

"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change. The courage to change the things I can. And the wisdom to know the difference. I still didn't know the difference."

Betsy Lerner, Food and Loathing: A Life Measured Out in Calories

"I hadn't been able to trust since the age of four. I was torn between wanting to be cradled and telling the world to go fuck itself, and those were opposite sides of the same coin."

Betsy Lerner, Food and Loathing: A Life Measured Out in Calories

"I had officially joined the cacophony of sick mother fuckers."

Betsy Lerner, Food and Loathing: A Life Measured Out in Calories