From a young age, I struggled with an inner critic who led me to doubt myself and hide who I was.
Until my twenties, I didn’t realize how big of a role she was playing, not just in my head but in my health. I was still navigating food intolerances and battling skin and gut related issues, thinking the constant bloat was my forever norm.
I felt drained and exhausted by my busy schedule and coffee soon became my lifeblood. My hormones were out of whack, causing PMS symptoms that left me crippled in pain. The relationship I had established with food was unhealthy and caused me to develop irregular eating patterns.
I had been living with a restricted mindset, only seeing the food I couldn’t eat, not what I could.
I would eat clean all week only to cave from the self-induced pressure, binging late at night while telling myself I would start again on Monday. I controlled and pushed myself by over exercising, booking myself a studio class any time I had a free moment.