As said, I'll tell you something about myself. I'm 23 years old, live in Holland with my mother, her 3 cats and my own dog (a Great Dane, and he is so sweet!!! Maybe I can get a picture of him up here sometimes) I used to study International relations and organizations, but I had to drop out, when I was 37 kg. Now I want to begin an other study, something more related to nutrition. But first I have some more recovering to do.
I found Wai's book while searching the internet for information on healthy nutrition. After reading the book for the fist time it took me some time to get used to the idea of eating this way. I thought I could never pull that off. But as I didn't like the taste of almost everything you are "suppost to eat", I finally decided to give it a try. So now approximaly one year later, I have been say half a year on, and the other half off the diet. This is going to be a very loooooong introduction this way. I'll try to keep it short. Basicly, I've been struggling whith diets all my life. When I was a teenager I used to be a little overweight. I alway felt so groce. I felt like I was trapped in the wtong body. It wasn't who I was. I thought it was due to "emotinal eating" (my vader is an alcoholist who used to beat us up every day...) (now I suspect I'm just very very sensitive to those opoid peptides.... or both...) Anyway, when I was 16 I got out of my vader's home, and since then my weight dropped slowly. Then I fel from one eating disorder in the other. First boulimia. After that I managed to keep my weight and my eating habbits under control for a couple off years. But inside I was struggling with my past, and had no one to talk to. So I got worse emotionally, without even noticing it myself. I blamed myself for evertyhing wrong in my life, and that of others. Even for the problems I had with my dad, even though I knew that made no sense at all. And also I was repeating to myself what my father always told me. That I was useless, and way to fat! When I still Lived with him, he had times when I wasn't allowed to eat, and he always commented on the size of my portion I ate at diner. Eventually I didn't want to live anymore, and I chose a way I already knew; starving myself, to death. Hadn't I been forced to get to a hospitall (been there twice) I wouldn't be alive right now. After being released for the second time I was actualy glad I'd made it. But then.... I had to put on weight. At my thinnest I was 27 kg (I'm 1.73 m.) so that was quite a struggle. Soon I dropped back in an old nasty habbit I swore I'd never do again..... Eating everything I could get my hands on, en afterwards running to the toilet.... I realy am ashamed about this, and I hate myself for not being able to swear it off. Even now I'm not 100% "clean". But I know one day I'll be where I want to be... 100% wai.
It's a bit a chaotic story, sorry for that. Anyway, good part is that I've got my whole family to eat healthier. When I was that thin, I wasn't used to all those taste enhancers and toxins, so I could realy taste them. Everything "they" told me to eat tasted bad. I just didn't believe that it could be good for me. I remember the first piece of pie my mother brought me on her birthday. It tasted awefull!!! I thought it would taste so good, boy was that a disapointment!!! So as soon as I could, I begin searching the internet. Unfortunately, I was already hooked on those things again before I found Wai's book. I realy wish I never learned to eat that s**t again! But my whole experience got my 3 bothers and my moher convinced about the iompotance of one's diet. My mom is 100% wai now, and one brother almost is (let's say he does some munch food sometimes). The oldest eats everything he is suppost top, but also some things he'd better leave out. But he gets his raw yolks and salmon (but for him it's more because off lazyness (he has no "time" to cook...), and where he lives (amsterdam) it's easy to get), and lots off fruit.
As I said, it's a kind of messy story, but I hope it wasn't to boring
I'm really looking forward to reading and posting a lot more here! And if there are any questions, feel free to ask
(One question; RRM, is it ok to post a picture here?)
