Over the past year, many of us have suffered from physical and emotional exhaustion. It is no surprise that people have turned to food for comfort
Naomi Boles hit a wall last October. “I wasn’t sleeping at all and I felt like I couldn’t keep going,” she recalls. “I was so stressed, and even when I was in bed my brain was constantly racing as I was worrying so much about my health, about my income, about my children. When I went to the doctor, it was like I’d reached a point where I couldn’t carry on any more.”
Nine months on, she is still recovering from that burnout. “I am finally getting to the point where I can be a bit easier on myself and not constantly be in this fight-or-flight mode,” she says.
It’s always to do with how you’re feeling. Our relationship with food is something we begin to form when we’re weaning
The government treats mental health and obesity very differently, but they are both so intertwined
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