In college, Janice Stanger developed serious eating disorders to hide her binge eating from others. At 5’4″, she ballooned somewhere past 165 pounds (she admits to having stopped weighing herself when the news got too grim).

Even when she licked that disorder, she still tried pretty much every diet under the sun in an attempt to get thin. Nothing worked for long, leaving her with a closet full of “thin clothes,” “fat clothes,” and every size in between.

Furthermore, she was plagued by a slew of health problems, including chronic respiratory infections, severe endometriosis, fatigue, intense headaches, and ongoing bouts of depression.

At no point in her journey up to this point had she even considered that her food intake could be related to this issues.

Then… something happened that slowly, inexorably, changed everything.