When we're young we have an amazing positive outlook about how great life is going to be

but somewhere along the line we forget to dream and end up settling. Join up dots features

amazing people who refuse to give up and chose to go after their dreams.

This is your blueprint for greatness.

So here's your host, live from the back of his garden in the UK, David Ralph.

Yes, hello there everybody and welcome to episode 244 of Join Up Darts.

Yes, of course, if you're listening to this live,

it's the 28th of December,

so you're probably still trying to get the last

of the turkey away from the fridge and eating the chocolates that really you shouldn't

have bought but you did because it's Christmas. And if you are having a problem with food, then

today's episode is really for you because today's guest has been on a path

for over 45 years, which so many people across the world will be able to resonate with.

She was a binge eater, finding huge comfort and then ultimate distress in her relationship with food.

For 45 years she went through the yo-yo dieting binge cycle time after time.

Her weight would balloon 40 or 50 pounds and then she would diet

to try to recapture her body depriving herself of all the foods. She enjoyed. She

was trapped and didn't know how to escape from the lifestyle that was anything but a happy one.

She suffered the shame, guilt and embarrassment of feeling out of control that every

binge eater feels wondering what was wrong with her and what others must think of her as they

watched her gain the weight back over and over and over again. But now as the

creator of the magic zone system where she teaches people how to eat what they want in moderation, never

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