Woman With Past Eating Disorders Inspires Others To Start A Recovery

This is the emotional story of a 28-year-old woman, whose weight dropped to 88lbs due to her eating disorders, leaving her with anorexia and bulimia. She decided to share her story with the world and show other sufferers that recovery is indeed possible. Listen to her inspirational story!Show more

Meet Lindsey Hall, from Fort Worth, Texas, whose teenage eating disorders caused her serious health problems, leaving her struggling with anorexia and bulimia. She would drink wine on an empty stomach just to curb her appetite. How horrible!

Four years ago Lindsey went to an eating disorder treatment centre and is now still in recovery, which according to her is a process that will last for the rest of her life. In addition, she writes about her recovery on her blog ‘I Haven’t Shaved In 6 Weeks’, trying to inspire others who are struggling with eating disorders to seek treatment and feel better.

Lindsey, now lives in Denver, Colorado, and doesn’t think that anybody ever fully recovers from eating disorders. She will have to live with it and fight against this awful health condition for the rest of her life.

It is interesting that this condition develops early in life, and it is boosted by the unhealthy eating habits. Lindsey explains that even as a child, her relationship with food ‘was always tumultuous’. She restrained herself from certain foods and ate only about 12 or 14 items of food. She fancies French fries, breakfast food, waffles, oatmeal, eggs and cereal. Can you imagine living on these foods only, for the rest of your life?

Surprisingly, these early eating patterns weren’t about counting calories and carbs, but sure contributed for Lindsey to establish a distorted relationship with food throughout the teen and adult years. The cycle of food restriction and bulimia continued throughout the years. Alongside her exercise addiction, Lindsey was suppressing her hunger by drinking.

When Lindsey started drinking alcohol to mask her appetite her condition was referred to as drunkorexia which refers to those who save all their calories for binges.

However, she knew she had a problem and agreed to spend six weeks as an inpatient at the Renfrew clinic in Florida and continue as an outpatient at the Renfrew Centre in Dallas. She now exercises and eats in moderation and blogs and speaks publicly about her recovery journey in an attempt to inspire others to do the same and tackle this disease.