Hello, hello everybody. I'm Lexi Lombard, host of the Lexi podcast, and I am 30 years old

and going on my first diet. Body image is something that can be quite sensitive. If food is a touchy

subject for you, I normally don't make disclaimers on my show, but if this is going to make you feel worse,

that's not my goal. I want to open a discussion and if you think that this is something that

will leave you feeling not so good, I don't want you to listen. So there's plenty of other

episodes that you can listen to. And if you're curious about this little

food health journey that I'm embarking on, stay around. So my first diet, I got so lucky to be a

late bloomer. I was not thinking about my body until I was probably 17 years old. I remember gaining weight for the first time ever

in my junior year of high school. And that's because I had quit sports and I had mono and I was

depressed, at least suicidal. It was all just a big jumbled up stew of understandable potential weight gain. But prior to that, I'd always been

an underdeveloped kind of lanky kid. My biggest body insecurities growing up were having a flat chest.

And I recently was talking with someone and she had said that she developed an eating disorder

when she was six years old.

And hearing that gave me such gratitude for making it so many years, my entire childhood

and most of my adolescence without ever having thought about my body.

And I have little slight comments, you know, that junior of high school,

like my grandma told me, oh, you're looking a little round, or I was going out to Chick-fil-A with

some friends on my mom said, are you sure you want to do that? But like those comments, I had never

heard prior. So it didn't develop too deeply in my psyche. It really wasn't until I turned 18, I moved out on my own,

and I had learned about animal agriculture and methane gas and the climate effects of the meat

industry. And I had moved to L.A. I learned about the drought and I thought, I single-handedly can fix this.

Yes, you vote with your actions and therefore I want to help the world.

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