"Leaving food on the plate was the hardest thing I ever learned."
"My mum's voice in my head for fifty years — 'there are starving children.'
But now I hear my own body instead, and it says 'that's enough.'
Half a portion of chips at the chippy last Friday. Left them. Walked away.
It was honestly one of the most freeing moments of my life."
Debbie D - Telford
"The mental exhaustion was the worst part, not the food itself."
"People think it's about willpower or portion sizes.
It's not. It's the constant, relentless calculation. Calories in, calories out, what can I have, what did I have, how long do I need to exercise.
My brain was a calculator from morning to night. That's gone now. Completely gone.
I didn't realise how much energy I was wasting until it stopped."
Gemma C-S - Shrewsbury
"I thought about food so much I couldn't concentrate on anything else."
"Work meetings, conversations with my kids, watching telly, there was always a layer underneath of 'what am I eating next, should I have that, how will I feel after.'
It was like being haunted. I started working with Cara and honestly I was sceptical at first.
But the quiet? The actual peace?
I never knew my brain could feel like this. Cara completely changed the way I see food and myself.
I wish I'd found her years ago."
Shirley - Cressage
