In Don't Count Me Out, Linda Hillman told the story of survival. In The Weight I Carried: It Was Never About the Food, she tells the truth about what survival left behind.

This raw and deeply honest memoir goes beyond diets, surgery, before-and-after photos, and the number on the scale to uncover the hidden weight of trauma, shame, rejection, body dysmorphia, disordered eating, and the lifelong hunger to be seen, chosen, and loved. From childhood wounds to spiritual awakening, from the red carpet of surrender to the operating room, Linda invites readers into the painful and powerful truth that the body often carries what the soul has not yet been able to say.

As the second installment in the Becoming Me Memoir Trilogy, this book is not a perfect weight loss success story. It is a testimony of healing in layers, losing pounds while gaining truth, facing regain without surrendering to shame, and learning that worth was never measured in pounds.

With faith, courage, and unflinching vulnerability, Linda shows that surgery can be a tool, but only God can heal the wounds beneath the weight. The Weight I Carried is for every person who has ever smiled while breaking, eaten to survive, hidden behind strength, or wondered if they were still enough.

This is not just a story about weight.

It is a story about becoming whole enough to live unhidden.