Scanning the menu in a restaurant, browsing the sandwich options in the coffee shop at lunchtime or doing the weekly shopping in the supermarket might be simple, everyday tasks for most people, but for 30 years I found them confusing and difficult.Why? Ultimately, I wanted two things that were in direct conflict with each other; to eat all the foods I knew I shouldn’t and not to be fat.As a child of the 1980s – a fat child of the 1980s – I lived in the eye of the diet culture storm. Encouraged by my doctor, I attended my first Weight Watchers meeting at the age of 11, though that wasn’t my first diet. I have memories of ‘can’t eat this’ and ‘mustn’t eat that’ linked to my growing size long before I joined WW.
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