You all know I have lost weight 8 stone, you all know why its important to lose weight safely, here comes the big thing, I am doing it safely this time, exercise and a proper diet and I felt the time was right to tell people about this it's another deep breath and putting it up sort of blog but if I can help one person, one parent to tell their child not to go through something like I did then it was worth me writing it huh?
So you're thinking OK what is this thing its called Anorexia, yep I said it outloud then & a few people knew not many any of you reading this now will know, it was 18 years ago I had it for a year and I was six stone I am not even going to put up a photo of what I looked like then, it was like looking at a skeleton.
The thing is anorexia is nothing about models, wanting to look good its all about control its trying to take back a bit of control in your life for something you felt out of control with, I've worked through my issues and got better really quickly because I sought help.
Family played a huge role in this, once I told them they rallied around, you are probably reading this and thinking yeah that was me too a lot of us have been anorexic but again its one of those taboo subjects I want to make it not a taboo subject I want if you're a parent to make sure that like me your child isn't exercising for up to 5 hours a day only having an apple for lunch, ducking out of dinner, I'm doing this purely for aww no poor Julie's because funnily enough I have a whole different approach to eating now I sensibly eat - the whole reason I was bigger before is a different story one we might get on to it was nothing about the bounce back from anorexia.
I want you or your kids to be as happy as I am now I am beyond happy you can all tell that and of course anorexia never completely leaves you I still look at the calories on things but I do it in A HEALTHY WAY NOW NOT AN ANOREXIC WAY. So please don't think I'm going hurrah I've got down to a size 14 because I'm heading that way again cos this girl is too savvy for that Julie is doing it because she wants to be the best person she can be in a healthy way.
Please if you have kids, check their eating habits, if you know someone who has anorexia encourage them to go to a doctor, tell someone again thats how it all starts just tell someone and there is lots and lots of help out there there was for me 18 years ago so now there is even more.
If you take one thing away from this look at me now, do I look happy, contented with my life, with how everything in it is going yes I do comes back the answer because I asked for help, its the only way to get better.
Again hope I haven't shocked you but things like this have to be brought into the open, I've been a Size 6 UK size now I'm a size 14/16, love my curves, love I'm doing it the right way, its again taken me a lot of courage and soul searching to write this because its so personal but sometimes you have to do things that are hard on you to help others and that is my goal in life to help as many people as I can.
Other people have been amazing to me, I want to repay them back.
Look at me now I'm not anorexic anymore do you want to be like me, does your child want to be like me, full of giggles and not worrying about food then look into my eyes see there's hope there that you will get better because you will - I did - why not you?
You are finding an awful lot about me but I'm an open book I don't keep things hidden.
Lets definitely make the next subject a lighter one.
Love Jewels xx
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