The Real You is Skinny: Isn't it Time You Made the Acquaintance?
Hi, I’m Alyssa, and not long ago, I became tired of being fat.Searching online for “before and after” pictures to inspire me, I found the tumblr thinspo community.  There I started my own blog, sweetthinspiration.tumblr.com, and started talking about my struggles and successes in the weight loss war.Before long, messages started coming in from people to whom weight loss suddenly made sense, from people relieved they no longer needed to starve and purge, and from people who just needed an extra dose of inspiration to keep going.   When a huge number of the people writing those messages used words like “finally,” “changed my life,” and “saved me,” I realized that mine wasn’t just another blog.  When people started telling me things like that they had printed out my writings to keep copies with them throughout the day, or that they wanted to wallpaper their room with pages of them, and that I should write a book, I started to wonder if maybe this was meant to be more than just about me.The Real You is Skinny is my way of saying thank you to everyone who inspired me to lose the weight and who helped me meet the real me.It is also, I hope, just what you have been looking for.