It's a memoir of the author's struggle to define herself both online and in the flesh. As a self-proclaimed dieting fat girl, she traces her journey in uneasy steps leading her to a karaoke stage in Vegas, a scale at a garage sale, a Weight Watchers meeting in a bleak office basement, and finally to her website Pound, the universe she created for herself when she couldn't see herself as a kicky Success Story.

I'm Not The New Me is about coming to terms with a family heritage of fat and drastic surgeries, and about self-esteem issues that are nobody's business but your own. It's wondering what's left of yourself after you lose weight—and just who the hell you are if you gain it back. It's about the absurdities of online personas and fat girl clichés, and the sheer terror of appearing live and in person in your very own life.

'A witty and sincere memoir of weight loss in the Internet age. ...A deeply funny and affecting book, the kind you give to your best friend and insist she read immediately.' —San Francisco Chronicle