Personal Success Stories

I cannot thank Laura enough for the difference she has made to my relationship with food, my eating in general, weight and developing a sense of moderation.
I am a man in his late 30’s and for as long as I can remember; I have had a difficult relationship with food. From a child, I was overweight from a young age and suffered daily from school bullying which only exacerbated the problem. Then, aged around 19, I lost around 6 stone rapidly, through exercise and starvation. Since then, I had poor strategies for maintaining a ‘normal’ weight and BMI. These would usually involve excessive exercise, starvation/bingeing and purging.
More recently, I found myself in a very strict regime of restricted eating, a high volume of physical exertion and the occasional binge and purge session. My mealtimes were always the same type of food, aiming to eat as little as possible to get by and always needing to ‘pay for what I had eaten’ with physical exertion. At this point (January 2018), my weight had never been lower, but despite this, I had never felt so depressed, lacking in drive, often feeling unwell and completely adrift. Some periods seemed ‘quite’, and I would assume I had developed control over my eating problems, but they were always lurking in the background and would often reappear during periods of stress, change or crisis.
I sort Laura’s support and it has set me on a path to a better understanding my eating disorder, developing a healthy relationship with food and exercise and most importantly, she has helped me discover my love of food and I now enjoy cooking and the eating part too!
Laura is such an approachable, caring and empathetic person. I immediately felt at ease with her and it was apparent that she genuinely cared about helping and supporting me. Thank you again Laura.