The last thing Melanie expected to lose when she went on a diet was her husband.

Former lawyer Melanie Hoffman lost half her body weight and opened a gourmet take-out caf specializing in healthy and delicious food. Then her husband left her--for a woman twice her size. Immediately afterwards, she's blindsided by a financial crisis. Melanie reaches out to a quirky roommate with a ton of baggage and becomes involved in a budding romance with a local documentary filmmaker.

In this warm and often laugh-out-loud novel, Melanie discovers that she still has a lot to learn about her friends, her relationships with men, and herself-and that her weight loss was just the beginning of an amazing journey that will transform her life from the inside out...

INCLUDES RECIPES

Author: Stacey Ballis
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 09/07/2010
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.89h x 5.16w x 0.83d
ISBN: 9780425229637
Audience: Young Adult


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 09/01/2010 pg. 42
Publishers Weekly 12/13/2010

About the Author
Stacey Ballis is the author of ten foodie novels: Inappropriate Men, Sleeping Over, Room for Improvement, The Spinster Sisters, Good Enough to Eat, Off the Menu, Out to Lunch, Recipe for Disaster, Wedding Girl, and How to Change a Life. She is a contributing author to three nonfiction anthologies: Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys, Everything I Needed to Know About Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume, and Living Jewishly.