Why I picked it up 
 I wasn't familiar with Gay or her work before attending a speaking engagement of hers at the Tattered Cover, a local bookstore. Went home afterwords and ordered this book, which she was touring in promotion of, and a few others. 
 What I want to remember about it 
 + Some shifting place between admiration and suspicion lies my feelings toward people who can take incredibly, immensely complicated events, snarled tangles of cause and effect and untidy, complicated human emotion and logic, and reduce it--reduce life--to any kind of straightforward assertion. "I had a series of unhealthy relationships because I felt undeserving of affection." The time, the emotion, the quantity and quality of living packed into such a sentence! Far too tidy to actually be an accurate or appropriate description of what actually happened. I don't know. It's either avoidance or good writing. 
 + It was distractingly choppy at times, with some chapters being mere sentences long. By the time I had gripped on to the topic and its direction, it was over and we were on to the next thing. Happened often enough that I grew annoyed by it. I suspect that Gay may be pulling inspiration for content from her tumblr and twitter at times, which is fine, and that at times she wanted to make points that added up to little more than asides. My personal preference though would be to not have the narrative interrupted by tweet sized tidbits. 
 + The tipping point between fat and Fat is what she calls "Lane Bryant fat". It's the dividing point between being able to buy clothes, move through a store, sit on chairs or sit in a restaurant, go to a theater or walk somewhere. 
 + The fact that she is able to hold two conflicting and opposing desires as the same time. She wants to be smaller while demanding to remain big.