Fifteen years ago, this book couldn’t exist. Fifteen years ago, I wasn’t sure if tomorrow would exist.

I was going to die soon. It was inevitable. There’s only so much abuse a body can take. I’d been bingeing and purging food for over 10 years at that point, usually 10 times a day and it felt like all the years of self-inflicted damage were finally catching upwith me.

I’d lost my menstrual cycle, I’d became socially withdrawn and depressed. I was suffering from weight fluctuations, panic attacks, heart palpitations, bad teeth, severe food and body preoccupation. My life was an endless cycle of bingeing, purging, then starving, bingeing, purging, then starving. Food was a battle ground and hunger was my enemy. Normal life felt like a distant forgotten memory.

In 2003, I hit rock bottom. I found myself passed out on the toilet floor. My heart was palpitating, I felt shaky, weak, broken and I instinctively knew that my body wouldn’t allow me to carry on this way much longer. I had abused it enough. There was a limit and I had reached mine. This had to stop. I didn’t want to die. With nothing left to lose I decided that I was going to dedicate my life to defeating this.

The idea that I could:

• ever stop bingeing,
• help thousands of other people to stop bingeing,
• write a book about stopping bingeing, and
• appreciate the insight and understanding my suffering gave me…

Well, that was just an impossible dream.

It wasn’t like I didn’t try to stop. Oh my, I tried so hard to stop. With every atom of my being, with every ounce of my willpower, I tried to resist the urge to binge on food but it never worked. I couldn’t stop. I wasn’t sure if I was mad, broken, lacked willpower or all of the above. What I did know was that I was terrified, alone, ill and that my life was in danger.

Perhaps most dangerous of all was the fact that I was beginning to lose hope. Hope of ever recovering. Hope of ever being free. Living without hope is a dark place to be.

So, right off the bat, I want to give you hope. More than anything I want to give you hope.

If you suffer with binge eating you know how much control food can hold over your life. Every second of every day you are bombarded by thoughts of food. Every food advert, fast food joint, convenience store and vending machine can trigger uncontrollable food cravings. Food is everywhere, all the time and it’s exhausting.

Eating food fills you simultaneously with feelings of pleasure, guilt, dread and shame. Somehow you can just eat, eat and eat and never seem to reach the point where you feel satisfied. Afterwards you worry about weight gain and berate yourself for lacking control. In the back of your mind you fear that it is too late for you, that you are too weak, too broken and you worry that you are doomed to suffer with the pain and misery of life as a binge eater.

I can tell you right now that these fears are unfounded. From the diversity of people and success stories I have witnessed over the past decade, I can tell you without a doubt that no one is beyond help and that there is no such thing as being too weak or too broken to break free from binge eating. You can get your life back. A life completely free from any urges to eat vast quantities of food.

So if you’re wondering if this book is for you, here’s what you need to know.

In this book I am going to show you exactly how to overcome your binge eating issues, make peace with food and achieve your optimal, natural weight without dieting.

It doesn’t matter if you binge on food once a week or multiple times a day. It doesn’t matter if you are overweight, underweight or normal weight. If you find yourself uncontrollable around food, you are in the right place, this book will help you, this book is your blueprint for success. Trust me, you can do this, you can have hope.