Meet My Hunger Drive: A Fact of My Life, Not a Self-Made Stigma

Since I first shared my story a few weeks ago, I have received a lot of comments about the stigma around food addiction and disordered eating patterns. 

This stigma runs deep, and I am learning how people of all sizes, shapes, and genetics feel that stigma in different ways. 

Even though I have lost half my weight, I spent most of my life experiencing this stigma silently in an isolated state of obesity or morbid obesity.

I never envisioned breaking my silence to speak about my food addiction – especially as publicly as I am doing now. But, life is full of surprises, and here I am.

I am speaking out because my self-understanding has profoundly shifted.