Here is a peak into my history of eatingdisorders. This is the story of me… In a few words. You have heard it before, but still I’m different. I am 23 right now, but I have been dealing with this for almost as long as I can remember. when I was about 11 I didn’t know how to deal with my pain and feelings. So I turned to food. when I got home from school I turned to the cupboards for something to chew, to eat… To make me not think about anything else! I did this for years. Not really knowing why I did it. Occasionally I would try to diet and lose weight. I was flirting with the obsession of losing weight and being thin. When I was 17 I really did it. Didn’t eat for a week, lost some weight, and I was really trapped in my own world consisting of hiding and avoiding food. Food was my enemy, and I was spellbound 24/7. Slowly people started to notise what I was doing. I was sent to the school’s doctor. My weight went up and down. I was starving, bingeing and purging and using laxatives. After seeing the school’s doctor for a year, he wanted me to be admitted to hospital. But there was no place for me. Not for 8 months… I stayed at the hospital for six months. Not much better when I got out… I kept losing weight that summer, and in september ’04 I was admitted again. But this time against my will! I stayed there for 8 months. I had gained about 25 pounds, but in my head I was still anorexic. But something was better… I was actually living a bit that summer. I started …

A profile of Dr. Robert Atkins, the diet doctor diet whose theories on nutrition have changed the way Americans think about eating. Atkins’s low-carb approach and 4-step program have become an obsession for many people at a time when two-thirds of Americans are overweight or obese. But the Atkins diet has its detractors, some of whom say that its emphasis on high-cholesterol foods can make it dangerous. Please visit Lowcarbshow.com and subscribe to our podcast where we discuss our on going struggles with weight loss…

A profile of Dr. Robert Atkins, the diet doctor diet whose theories on nutrition have changed the way Americans think about eating. Atkins’s low-carb approach and 4-step program have become an obsession for many people at a time when two-thirds of Americans are overweight or obese. But the Atkins diet has its detractors, some of whom say that its emphasis on high-cholesterol foods can make it dangerous. Please visit Lowcarbshow.com and subscribe to our podcast where we discuss our on going struggles with weight loss…