My body became different. Over the span of a year and a half the body that I knew became smaller, got stronger, ate new things, felt different. Discussions of weight loss are often shrouded in the language of “newness,” as if the person inside the body went to a car dealership and traded their Toyota for a sleek new Lexus, furnished with that new car smell. Commentary surrounding the “new body” is eerily similar to that of trading out an older car for a new one: “congratulati