All Chapters of I Swapped Bodies with the 200-Pound Girl and Never Wanted Mine Back: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

In the afternoon I went to the hospital for a physical.The doctor studied the report, then explained, "Your weight is far above the healthy range, but the main problem is insulin resistance."Years of taking weight-loss drugs without medical supervision have thrown your metabolism off."Follow the diet and exercise plan, complete the treatment, and you have every chance of recovering."I had barely nodded before he added, "At your current weight, don't do anything reckless."Get healthy first. Then take the weight off slowly."There were two months left before school resumed at Westbrook High.I had never planned on any extreme method. All I wanted was a healthy body.I left the hospital and found a registered dietitian, just as the doctor recommended.She wrote me a detailed meal plan.Looking at portions half again as big as anything I used to eat, I couldn't help smiling.Vivian used to plan diet meals for me too.Half an egg for breakfast, four lettuce leaves at noon, a glass of m

For the remaining six weeks, I stayed out of the class group chat.They still dragged me out to laugh at me now and then. I never answered.Every morning at first light I went downstairs and walked.Half an hour at first, then an hour, then two.Strength work in the afternoon, skin care and posture work at night.It was only after the weight started coming off that I realized Eleanor wasn't ugly.She had naturally good features. She was simply heavy and covered in acne, and that was enough for people to mock her.When she smiled, she had dimples.After one month I had lost thirty-three pounds.My insulin numbers were normal and my knees had stopped aching.In the second month, I focused on building muscle and definition.The muscle memory from more than ten years of dance came back to me even in this body.I stood in front of the mirror and ran the basic dance drills over and over.Marianne saw me and thought something was wrong with me."Baby, why are you standing pressed against the

The second Carl said it, everything around us went quiet.Eleanor's face went a frightening shade of white.She pulled Carl to her side."Of course you've met her. She's in my class."She was so heavy before, and nobody noticed her. You just don't remember."She watched him nervously. Carl freed himself from her grip and looked at me."I don't mean at school. It's the way you carry yourself. You remind me of someone."For one second, something in me stirred. Then I thought, so what?He remembered how I walked, and he had never once actually cared about me.After the rib surgery I lay awake all night from the pain, and all he had to say was that I looked washed out and didn't photograph well.When I fainted from low blood sugar because I wasn't eating, he put me in a lounge to rest and went back to the dinner.Now I had a different face, and suddenly he was treating me like I mattered.It was almost funny.I pulled my hand free."Carl, that's a really old line."Laughter rose around us,

At seven thirty I arrived at the Ford house right on time.I had barely stepped into the ballroom when I heard my birth mother's flat, cold voice. "Back straight. Chin up. Carl's mother will be here any minute. If you make one mistake, I won't spare you just because people are watching."Eleanor wore a fitted gown, her face paper-white.She saw me and had just started to look smug when Vivian took hold of her chin."Why is your face swollen?"Eleanor backed away, frightened."I only had a little soup this afternoon.""A little?"The next second Vivian kicked her in the stomach."I told you: no food before a family dinner. You can't even control your own mouth, and you want to marry into the Ford family?"The sound of her hitting the floor carried across the ballroom.Guests turned to look. She covered her face and stared at Vivian in a panic."Mom, there are guests here..."She had thought rich parents doted on their daughters without conditions. Her tears only made Vivian's face darke

The results had barely gone up when Eleanor lost her mind.She rushed to the front of the room, snatched the printout, and looked at the name at the top.First place, Eleanor, a perfect score.Last place, Corinna."That's impossible! Corinna is supposed to be first!"She was shrieking. Students below covered their ears.The teacher stared at her in disbelief."But you are Corinna!""I am not!"All the misery and jealousy she'd bottled up finally exploded.She looked at me coldly. "She's the real Corinna! We swapped bodies!"The room went quiet, and a few seconds later the whispering started."What is she talking about? They swapped bodies?""Has she lost it? Should somebody take her to a hospital?"Eleanor was past caring about any of it.She grabbed my shoulders and shook me hard."Corinna, give me my body back!"What gives you the right to come first while you're in my body? You stole my parents too!"That was supposed to be my name, my parents, my life! You thief!"I looked at her c