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I was never thin enough

Growing up in my family, we all fought over food, but when I think back now, I don’t remember any of them eating stale baking. I loved...

Paralysed by denial, now living free

I didn’t think I had a problem with food. I just needed to get my life together. I was a recent college graduate and uncertain about my...

I love our way of life

I started dieting when I was 12 years old. I wasn’t overweight but I felt pudgy and I wanted a new boy at school to like me. Somehow, I...

I am no longer looking in from the outside

I had a sense of isolation and loneliness which had been with me from childhood. As an overweight child I went on to be an obese adult. I...

I have also been relieved of depression

I believe I was born with this disease. As a child I ate more than what I was comfortable with on many occasions; eating the biggest...

I was spiralling out of control

I don't have many memories from my childhood, but the memories I do have relate to food - picnics with bacon and egg pie, my mother’s...

Fourteen years of bingeing hell

I have noticed and been aware of food as early as I can remember. Even now, as an adult, I can recall different types of food at friends’...

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