As her aunts wedding approaches, Ann wants to lose weight for herself to fit into her clothing and so buys a commercial advertised kit to have set meals and workouts to lose weight. It works and she starts too lose weight and make healthier choices whilst working and meeting a boy, Jon there keeps her spirits up.
Throughout the book as she begins running and fitting smaller clothes, she stops just having the horrible diet foods she hates and notices her mum's dangerous diet language and attitude is causing her little sister Libby to become a four year old anorexic as she starts to avoid eating by insisting she's full all the time.
This book raises the whole issue of diet culture and it's damaging effects brilliantly especially around young children growing up. It also raises the more widely discussed topic of weight in teenage years and the effects on the person and their mentality. In this case it's great to have a protagonist who spots the unhealthy way her mum approaches being healthy and calls her out on it.
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