QUEST NUTRITION: NEDA AWARENESS WEEK | FROM 56 TO 221 POUNDS

What I did believe I could control was my weight… and that led me down a road more lonely than anything I had ever imagined.

In the beginning of 2009, it looked as if I had finally lost my battle. With my weight dropping to a low of 56lbs – I lost all my hair, faced liver failure, had to relearn how to walk, couldn’t think or recognize people, and was given almost no chance to survive. The night of August 15, 2009 would change my life forever. I binged. I was now 75lbs and climbing. What I didn’t realize was that I had traded anorexia for binge eating disorder.It took many difficult years of patience, hard work and a little hope, but I have now completely turned my life around.

After many years filled with restricting, over-exercising, bingeing, laxatives, colonics, hospitals, treatment centers, fat camps, depression and loneliness, I have written a book composed of mainly journal entries titled, Safety In Numbers: From 56 to 221 Pounds, My Battle with Eating Disorders -A Memoir. Ultimately, it brings hope and the courage to never give up. 

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