Hi, besties, and welcome back to the Sad to Savage podcast. I'm your host, Shelby Sacco, and I've got to apologize because my voice is kind of off this week. Now, this weekend, I went to Chicago to celebrate one of my best friends' birthdays. I had a five-hour drive home, and I was scream singing, and I'm paying the price. So I apologize for my voice. But this episode has been highly requested and I'm ready to go through

and get real personal with you guys. I want to start today's episode by also giving a trigger

warning. We're going to be talking about and breaking down disordered eating habits and really

diving into things that can contribute to unhealthy relationships with food. This episode's also

going to have two parts and next week we'll dive into the concept of eating 60 to 80% healthy and learning new healthy eating habits. There's a lot to unpack in this episode. I

struggled with disordered eating for about eight years in multiple forms and not only that but I

struggled with all of the things attached like food guilt, body shaming in an unhealthy eating

mindset which I personally think people ignore when discussing disorder eating. When I talk about this time in my life, I refer to it as being like legit on a roller

coaster or having a roller coaster of disordered eating patterns because that's truly what it is,

like when I look back at it. Highs, lows, trying anything and everything no matter how harmful

it really was to my body. And it's crazy to me. And I'm not that far out of healing but I looked healthy during

so many of my disordered eating phases when in reality the choices I was consistently making

were so unhealthy I think that's a big problem that we struggle with almost how we see healthy

what's deemed healthy I consistently chose to do things for a smaller body when really I was

suffering so terribly mentally mentally and physically.

I Disordered Eating takes place from the age of 16 to 24. I'm 25 now and I started really learning

more about disordered eating habits and how to heal at 23. The summer after I turned 24, that's when I

truly felt like I had made the changes, figured out the habit loops, and the keto at all, and now a year

later I really do feel like I'm thriving. I'm the healthiest I've ever been mentally and physically.

And I'm so grateful, which is why I want to talk about this with you guys, because I want this

for you too. One of the main reasons I wanted to make this episode is because in that time frame,

when I was really struggling, like that was really fucking hard. Like living in a mind that couldn't just eat and exist.

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