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I started dieting when I was 12 years old. I wasn’t overweight but I felt pudgy and I wanted a new boy at school to like me. Somehow, I...

I didn’t think I had a problem with food. I just needed to get my life together. I was a recent college graduate and uncertain about my...

I had a sense of isolation and loneliness which had been with me from childhood. As an overweight child I went on to be an obese adult. I...

I believe I was born with this disease. As a child I ate more than what I was comfortable with on many occasions; eating the biggest...

I don't have many memories from my childhood, but the memories I do have relate to food - picnics with bacon and egg pie, my mother’s...

I have noticed and been aware of food as early as I can remember. Even now, as an adult, I can recall different types of food at friends’...

I have lived in New Zealand for the last twelve years, after being born and raised in Somerset, England. My parents ran a playgroup in...

I have a sneaky feeling that I was born with a twisted and gaping open mouth! That I came from my mother's womb already upset, irritable...

“As far back as I can remember, I was fascinated by food.” This is what I heard the young woman who carried this message of recovery to...

I didn't know I had a problem with food, not at first. I was an active child and not yet overweight, but not as petite as my family so I...

I was 37 years old when I found our Twelve Step fellowship. All my life I had a number of secrets of which I was very ashamed. The first...

My earliest childhood memories are of me eating food in secret. Up until the age of twenty-three, when I came into recovery, I went to...

I was born to working class parents in a large city. As far back as I can remember, I always felt like an alien, and I always worried....

For as long as I can remember, I have loved food and always felt different from my family and other people. I never knew why. I remember...

It is Sunday evening as I write this and I am reminded by another member that I haven’t had to eat addictively today. I haven’t had to...

Right from a young child I have always loved food; I loved gatherings because of the food. As I got older I would steal food and money to...

I don’t remember being obsessed with food when I was very young, the way I was to become. I remember starting to eat at any opportunity I...

I didn’t think I had a problem with food until I was fifteen years old and at high school, but now I realise that I was born with the...

I wasn’t an overweight child, but from as young as 5 years I can recall comparing myself unfavourably with two painfully thin twins in my...

I came to my first meeting because my obsession with food was driving me crazy mentally, and because I was afraid I would not be able to...

I remember being ‘different’ around food for most of my life. This included things such as being the person who had two cream buns at...

I've had an eating problem as long as I can remember. I would steal food, and money to get food. I was ashamed and had no idea why I did...

Growing up, I always felt different as if I had been born on the wrong planet. I thought the reason must have been because I was adopted...

My obsession with food was present from a very early age. I remember competing with other family members to eat as much as I possibly...

I wasn't born with an 'off' switch where food was concerned. My eating from a very early age was abnormal. I wasn't interested in the...

From an early age I knew I was different with food. I only have one sibling, a brother, and we were brought up just the same, but I could...

I first went to a 12-step fellowship specialising in food addiction over thirty years ago. I’d like to say I’ve been sober since then,...

There was never a time I did not have a fascination for food. I regularly stole money and stole food thinking that it was normal to want...