Life In The Fat Lane Lara Ardeche
Real girls aren’t perfect and perfect girls aren’t real. So do you honestly know anyone who is truly perfect? Being happy isn’t a choice it’s a way of life. But what if that’s the only thing you know how to do? Everyone has a story. Everyone has gone though something that has changed them.
In the book, Life in the Fat Lane Lara Ardeche has the perfect life, family, and friends. She’s homecoming queen and has a sweet boyfriend. Everything is perfect until Lara starts to gain weight uncontrollably and no matter how much she tries to lose, the numbers just keep going up. Lara does not accept who she is and the perfect world around her starts to fade away as simple as a dream. Her family starts to drift apart and she drowns in her own misery. …show more content…
Always a good 118 pounds. The next time she gained a few pounds, she thought it was the same, but she was wrong, it wasn’t. She did everything she could to lose those few pounds but the number only grew. Her personality changed, she became embarrassed to even go anywhere, or even go out with her boyfriend. Got paranoid that the more she gained weight the more one of her old closet friends started flirting with her boyfriend. On pg.70 of the book it says “I stare at my dinner plate. One half piece of bread, one half cup of fat free cottage cheese. A colorful medley raw vegetables. One small orange.”
“Lara, you can’t not eat at all,” my mother said, “We’ll go to a different diet doctor” This shows that she doesn’t want to eat because she wants the problem to go away. Lara tried many things to get rid of this problem, even has skipped social events, because she was so embarrassed.
As Lara keeps gaining weight, she starts to discover that her family is now having many problems. Her dad isn’t there because he’s having an affair. Her brother knew this for a while but didn’t tell anyone. Lara’s father and mother agreed to continue to be married but he is allowed to live with the women from the affair. This causes the mother to drink while taking pills, and she had to go to the hospital, while there she told Lara, “Can’t have the hired help know that the Ardeche family is less than
In the book, Life in the Fat Lane Lara Ardeche has the perfect life, family, and friends. She’s homecoming queen and has a sweet boyfriend. Everything is perfect until Lara starts to gain weight uncontrollably and no matter how much she tries to lose, the numbers just keep going up. Lara does not accept who she is and the perfect world around her starts to fade away as simple as a dream. Her family starts to drift apart and she drowns in her own misery. …show more content…
Always a good 118 pounds. The next time she gained a few pounds, she thought it was the same, but she was wrong, it wasn’t. She did everything she could to lose those few pounds but the number only grew. Her personality changed, she became embarrassed to even go anywhere, or even go out with her boyfriend. Got paranoid that the more she gained weight the more one of her old closet friends started flirting with her boyfriend. On pg.70 of the book it says “I stare at my dinner plate. One half piece of bread, one half cup of fat free cottage cheese. A colorful medley raw vegetables. One small orange.”
“Lara, you can’t not eat at all,” my mother said, “We’ll go to a different diet doctor” This shows that she doesn’t want to eat because she wants the problem to go away. Lara tried many things to get rid of this problem, even has skipped social events, because she was so embarrassed.
As Lara keeps gaining weight, she starts to discover that her family is now having many problems. Her dad isn’t there because he’s having an affair. Her brother knew this for a while but didn’t tell anyone. Lara’s father and mother agreed to continue to be married but he is allowed to live with the women from the affair. This causes the mother to drink while taking pills, and she had to go to the hospital, while there she told Lara, “Can’t have the hired help know that the Ardeche family is less than