This work that I am sharing with you today liberated me from food and body obsession and helped replace that precious real estate in my head with what I had always been longing for, a life filled with true joy and purpose. I'll explain...
For over half my life I struggled with my relationship with food. At the age of 16, I decided I needed to lose weight and so I put myself on my first diet. There began the endless cycle of dieting, restricting, weight loss followed by emotional eating, overeating then eventual weight gain. Feelings of guilt and shame became a constant in my daily life and by my late 20s/early 30s, it all began to snowball and I began binge eating.
At any sign of discomfort or stress and anxiety, whether it was in my work life, or family life, or in social situations (and there were many), my mind would automatically go to food. For lack of a better word, I believed myself to be a "food addict". It was excruciating.
I felt unfulfilled, desperately searching for joy and contentment. And yet true joy and contentment never seemed to follow. I seemed to be looking for them in the wrong places, in the perfect body, the perfect job, the perfect life. And so my pain, discomfort and sadness grew.
