num_pages: 272
description: Beauty pageant winner, homecoming queen--Lara has the world at her feet.  Until she gets fat.Despite a strict diet and workout schedule, Lara is soon a nameless, faceless, 200-pound-plus teenage blimp.  She's desperate to get her to-die-for body back--and to find an explanation for her rapid weight gain.When she's diagnosed with a mysterious metabolic disorder that has no known cure, Lara fears she'll spend the rest of her life trapped in a fat suit.  Who will stand by her?  Her image-conscious family?  Her shallow friends?  Her handsome boyfriend?  Or will she be left alone in the land of the fat girls?
language: English
title: Life in the Fat Lane
titlecomplete: Life in the Fat Lane
genres: Fiction, Relationships, Mental Health, Teen, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Chick Lit, Realistic Fiction, High School, Contemporary
ratings_count: 2335
places: Tennessee
publisher: Laurel Leaf