Remember the low-carb fads and airbrushed magazine covers of the 90s and early 2000s?

Yeah… they messed with all of us. Myself included. For years I battled binge eating and body shame, as a result of constantly chasing diet and beauty culture’s impossible “ideal.”

From about age 11 I believed the lie that happiness came in a size. I tied my worth to my appearance and convinced myself love would only arrive if I got smaller. So I tried everything- fad diets, gym memberships, fat-burners, skinny teas, cleanses, meal-replacement shakes. If it promised a “fix,” I bought in.

By my early twenties the cycle had tightened into something dangerous. I blamed myself for being “weak” and thought the next diet would fix the out-of-control behaviour around food. Instead, I’d “fall off” every plan, find myself secretly eating bags full of burgers in my car, then drown in the guilt and shame that followed and promise to be better tomorrow.

That binge → shame → restriction loop repeated for years until my GP finally recognised something was wrong and diagnosed me with Binge Eating Disorder.

But I wasn’t offered therapy or any sort of support- just a recommendation for weight-loss surgery.

So, at 23 I drained my savings for a gastric sleeve, desperate for a way out. I got the body I thought I wanted- but the binges, the hiding, the shame stayed. Even in a smaller body, I still found myself in the car, eating alone, out of control, deeply ashamed. Losing weight wasn’t the freedom I’d been promised.

That painful truth became my turning point. I realised healing couldn’t come from shrinking my body—it had to come from repairing my relationship with food, with myself, and with my body image.

With little support available, I became my own healer. I studied psychology, focused my Master’s research on eating disorders and body image, and deepened my practice with mindfulness and somatic tools I learned while travelling and living in an ashram in India. Piece by piece I built what is now my Food Freedom Method—the heart of my program, The Break Up.

I’ve been binge-free since 2019, and that recovery lit my life’s work. I know how isolating and hopeless it feels when the world offers another diet, another quick fix, or care that’s unaffordable and out of touch.

So I built something different: free guides, a podcast, an Instagram community, workbooks, therapy, and a powerful recovery program— this support is compassionate, evidence-informed, and actually possible for real life. Because world-class help shouldn’t be a privilege.

You don’t have to wait until rock bottom. You deserve to feel empowered, safe, and free- every single step of the way. 💜

Nic xo