Lying To Be Perfect
 

I watched it a while back. I had honestly just read the book on which it was based so it was interesting to see how the two compared. As usual, I think the book was much better but the movie itself was cute and definitely motivating.

I have actually watched the movie twice lol. It is a great movie. Really motivating to me and cute :)

I loved her dress at the end!!

I liked this movie. Does anyone know of others like it?

Thought it sounded interesting, but then I looked it up and it's one of those kinds of things that enrages me - when you get thin your life will be perfect, when you are fat it's dreadful.

(Review on IMDB: "The story is about a less than model thin girl who transforms herself into a self-help guru. The role of Nola Devlin is written for a plus sized girl, so instead of finding one, they just put some Hollywood twig in a fat suit. This is just disrespectful to plus sized women everywhere. The fact that her life only improves after she becomes Hollywood thin and glamoured is also a slap in the face. The message of this made for TV debacle is that fat girls can't be happy unless they get a skinny girl makeover.")

When people say they will start a language class "once they are thin" and get a new job and a makeover and all these things it makes me think hang on, weight is not the centre of this problem. I've never felt I had to hide myself away at any weight, and I truly believe you are more likely to succeed if you get on out there and do all the things you want to do once you've lost the weight (within your capability) and lose the weight alongside. If you stay home waiting till you are thin and then life will be perfect you're in for a tough time getting the weight off (you'll be bored) and a tough realisation when life still turns out to suck in a smaller body.