She'd lost two pounds. It was an amazing accomplishment she'd worried was never going to happen. Then she checked herself on the scale and it was like magic ( Read more... )

During her break at work, Dahl wrote out a plan in her small memo book. She ignored the looks she received from other people moving in and out of the break room and focused on her task, her pink and white pill pen clenched in her hand.( Read more... )

They say that the first step to solving a problem is to acknowledge it. Dahl wished her problem wasn't that she was fat, but there wasn't much she could do about it. Problems were what they were ( Read more... )

Title: Cake
Author: Harper Kingsley
Genre: contemporary fiction
Character: Dahlia Quinzant

One day, Dahl looked in the mirror and hated what she saw. The person looking back at her did not look like her, the person she was in her head.( Read more... )