Always Hungry was the book that I had to write. Necessary. Necessary to share this story of my path to health, by cutting through the diet culture nonsense. My story of discrimination. My story of rebuilding, of life after divorce. My story of parenting a neurodivergent, non-binary child. So many stories.

Also, my story of overcoming shame. The rudeness and cruelty that I often experienced when in a larger body speaks to deeply entrenched biases in society that continue today. The world is kind to me now and it’s for all the wrong reasons. Kind because as a slim white woman, I am the cultural ideal. It’s abhorrent.

I am also an outlier. Most people don’t sustain significant weight loss for a decade—I have, and dearly wish to share (with humility) what I have learnt. What I’ve learnt about how to lose the weight without ridiculous, often extreme medical interventions and the latest crash diet (that usually results in nothing more than rapid weight loss and subsequent regain). This is also a story of healing from the inside out. Through interoceptive awareness, through deep excavation to the core of my emotional eating disorder, I found peace.

Rare is the person who doesn’t have a complex, sometimes disordered relationship with food. If any of this resonates, then perhaps you’ll find my book helpful in some small way. I hope so. This story is also told with riotous humour. I don’t know about you, but I know that I have zero desire to navigate this exquisitely beautiful shitshow of a modern world without laughter.

Join me. xo