It's not my age. It's not my husband. It IS my choices...
I had been a health focused person all my life. Yet, there were several poor health behaviors that I couldn’t quite kick. The worst of them was my tendency to binge eat and binge drink. I was also extremely hooked on sugar, finding my cravings often impossible to control. In my 20s, I compensated for my binging and sugar consumption by exercising more after a “bingy” weekend or evening and by limiting my calories 4-5 days a week to allot for a few binges each week. It worked well enough to keep my weight in control but inside my head, I was often going crazy with the desire to stuff myself silly or to eat a half a German chocolate cake in one sitting. I was often bloated, my skin would break out after particularly bad weekends, and I always gained about 10 pounds on vacations when I would allow a total loss of control. In my 30s, I got busy with school and life and my poor choices got out-of-control. Ins...