A couple of days ago, we got this breathtaking email from one of our readers. Just knowing that our book has helped and inspired someone… wow… no words can explain the feeling.

Here’s the email (translated into English). Thank you again for sharing your story.

Hi,

Don’t know where to start. I was chubby as a kid, and my mom was a single parent with all kinds of eating disorders. I’ve been on a diet since I was eight years old. Suffered from eating disorders since the age of 13. I’ve spent more than half my life avoiding, compensating, counting etc. Force-fed, hospitalized, and so on. Two years ago, I was discharged from the hospital. Mainly because I refused to stay. Since then, I’ve continued to avoid, compensate, count etc. I joke about how a bulimic person makes the best diet advisor. She knows all about calories and the effects on blood sugar.

About seven months ago, the 19th of January, I read your book, Food Pharmacy, while I had Pepsi Max for dinner. Most of what I read, I had heard before. But the way you talked about food, focusing more on health and less on the body (my main focus for as long as I could remember), caught my attention.

For many years, doctors, psychologists, friends and family, tried to convince me to change. But I refused to listen.

But before I finished my Pepsi, I finished your book. And since that day, seven months ago, I’ve followed your advice, focusing on health rather than the scale or my skinny jeans.

Thank you for helping me regain my self esteem. I’ve gotten my life back.

I try to compensate by buying your books and giving them to everyone I know. I don’t know what to say…but this is to say:

Thank you.

xx

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