At her heaviest, at 260 pounds, Elna thought she didn't deserve to live. Her mother became heavily involved in trying to figure out what was wrong with her. She says that the effort ended up being the catalist for a life-threatening illness. "I had suspected it based on the way people would look at me or look at my body"
From the time she was a little girl, Elna Baker had dreamed of being thin. And she did become thin. She lost close to 100 pounds in five months. For a while Elna thought she was living her dream life, until she realized that she had lost herself in the process.
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