27/11/2025
Breaking the Cycle: Healing My Relationship with Food for Her
I’d spent too many years tangled in a toxic relationship with food — the guilt, the shame, the constant internal negotiations. Eat this, don’t eat that. Skip meals to “make up” for yesterday. Call it discipline, call it willpower — but really, it was punishment.
Now, I see her. My daughter. She’s watching me — not just what I eat, but how I talk about myself, how I feel about my body. And that’s when it hit me: if I didn’t change, I’d pass it down.
The 1:1 Diet transformed how I felt about food. It allowed me to step back, silence the noise, nourish my body without constantly torturing myself with decision fatigue. It allowed me to be ‘babied’, it gave me a mental break from the exhaustion of trying to make ‘better’ choices when I was so entrenched in the toxicity of binging and restricting.
I lost 3 stone in 12 weeks and created a path for myself where food was no longer the enemy, and my body wasn’t a battleground. I rebuilt a positive relationship because it just didn’t exist in my childhood and teenage years. I needed to stop the cycle. I had to show her that nourishment isn’t just physical — it’s emotional, mental, and deeply personal. I wanted her to grow up trusting her body, not be at war with it.
This isn’t about perfection. It’s about healing. And every small, compassionate choice I make now — every time I silence that harsh inner critic, every time I enjoy a meal without shame — it’s not just for me. It’s for her.
Because she’s watching. And she’s worth it.
And so am I.
