Sohee Carpenter

For me, it was about the control of the food to then look a certain way, to then be accepted in a certain way and perceived a certain way.

The reason why my binge eating persisted for so long for me is that it was the extreme level of rigidity with my diet.

So as soon as I let myself actually eat more calories on a day to day basis and also feel less deprived with my food choices, when I started liking the way I ate, ate more.

Right.

And then I felt because I felt less deprived, I didn't have the urge to binge one away for me.

And when I did that, of course, my actual day to day calorie intake actually dropped.

And then over the course of like, I want to say eight months or so, I lost like 10 pounds without trying.

And this was about 10, maybe 10 plus years ago.

And I was so amazed because I was like, I'm actually trying.

I'm putting in less effort and I'm getting, I'm losing weight when I'm trying less.

And I was like, oh my God, I feel like I've understood something that I really didn't get before.

Oh, it was huge.

Yeah.

And it really changed a lot of my messaging.

And I've continued to evolve my messaging since then.

But it really highlighted to me, okay, it's really not about trying harder.

In terms of like the nutrition mistakes that they make?

Yeah, one thing that... Okay, so this really changed my perspective a lot for me.

What clicked for me was understanding.

It's not about... Because I used to believe that the stricter I was, the more miserable I was, the better the results I was going to get.