"318: A Chubby Chick's Tale of Weight Loss Surgery" is the story of a woman learning to live a more productive and healthy lifestyle after gastric banding surgery. "318: A Chubby Chick's Tale of Weight Loss" will allow the reader to learn and take part in a woman's choices and decisions in having the procedure done. The story also contains fat flashbacks that are episodes of humor, heartbreak, and the examination of love and hatred of one's physical form. With each emotionally charged chapter and the brutal honesty of fat flashbacks, the author explains the pains of gaining weight, the adventures in becoming a better person, and the successes and failures of one woman's life after bariatric surgery.