Wow, I just got finished with
Hungry. It's a slim little book, but I thought it had some powerful observations about food disorders, weight loss and maintenance.
The author lost weight over 12 years ago (top weight was 360, I don't remember if he gave a current weight) by recognizing he was a compulsive overeater and coming up with a plan for life he could stick to. He eliminated his trigger foods (as some of us have to do).
There is this one scene, where he talks about a big, solid chocolate bunny at work and how he kept sneaking into his coworker's office to stealthily hack off bits of the bunny, all afternoon. It was like something out of my own life, just made the hair on my arms stand up. I remember a leftover birthday cake in the refrigerator out in the garage when I was a kid. My family was home (weekend day?) and I kept sneaking, sneaking, sneaking into the garage, stealing little bites of the cake all day. It wasn't even very good (the author also says the bunny wasn't very good).
Our issues aren't identical (and I doubt any of us have identical issues either) but there was just enough of the "I remember that" to strike a deep chord in me.