Ep 63- 5 Things I Wish I'd Known Before I Spent a Decade Fighting Food

Can I be really honest with you today?This episode is personal. Like, properly personal. I'm taking you through the actual chapters of my life — the eleven-year-old me at the kitchen table, the bullied teenager with the (truly catastrophic) bowl cut, the uni student eating chips alone in her room, and the woman who had bariatric surgery and was still binge eating within months.But here's why I'm sharing it: because I know this isn't just my story. If you grew up in the nineties and early two thousands watching Princess Diaries glow-ups, Fat Monica punchlines, and Kate Moss staring back at you from every magazine cover — you were being taught something about what your body was worth. And most of us absorbed that lesson without even realising it.In this episode I'm sharing the five things I wish someone had told me before the damage was done:Why your relationship with food probably didn't start with food at allThe movies and magazines that quietly built your beliefs about bodies and worthWhat trauma actually does to your eating — and why it makes complete senseThe truth about weight loss surgery that nobody told me beforehandWhy you are not broken — and what healing actually looks likeWhether you're deep in the cycle right now or you've been in recovery for years and still carry some of this — I think this one's going to land for you.Resources and Links:https://linktr.ee/bingefreebestieChapters:00:00 Introduction00:52 The 11-Year-Old Girl Who Learned Thin = Worthy03:55 Lesson 1: Thinness Was Taught As Worth08:53 Lesson 2: Bullying Didn’t Mean You Needed to Change13:59 Lesson 3: Trauma Changed My Relationship With Food19:30 Lesson 4: Weight Loss Didn’t Stop The Binges23:24 Lesson 5: You Are Not Broken25:29 How I Actually Became Binge-Free26:40 The Truth I Want You To Hear27:55 What You Can Do Next