Dear Body: What I Lost, What I Gained, and Who I’ve Become

Bestselling cookbook author and beloved creator of Instant Loss, Brittany Williams is back with her most personal book yet. Heartfelt and inspiring, Dear Body shares the untold story behind Brittany’s dramatic weight loss, and her powerful journey to self-acceptance and self-love.

Brittany Williams, creator of Instant Loss, has cultivated a following of hundreds of thousands of fans who can’t get enough of the delicious recipes that helped her shed pounds and get healthy. But Brittany’s journey has not been easy. Now, in Dear Body, she shares the untold story behind her lifelong struggle with the scale.

With unflagging honesty and her trademark vulnerability, Brittany invites us into her tumultuous childhood, when she learned to turn to food for comfort and love, and escaped her pain with fast food and junk food. She describes the roots of her unhealthy coping mechanisms, and the tensions of growing up with a body that felt more like a traitor than a friend. At once heartbreaking and hopeful, Dear Body brings us into her deepest moments of heartache, loss, and trauma, and reveals that the path to healing requires much more than changing what, or how, you eat.

As she shares her story, Brittany teaches us how to find the strength and courage to keep going in our darkest moments. She reminds us to never lose faith in ourselves, and helps us to believe in the countless blessings that life has in store for us all.

Filled with poignant lessons and hard-won advice, Dear Body is the story of a woman’s relationship with her body, and herself. A story unique to Brittany, but familiar to all of us.