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Hello.
My name is Dovida Goodman.
I am going to take the risk here to speak very personally.
I am doing this because perhaps
you might see yourself in what I write
and therefore my words can serve to help you know
that you are not alone,
and that the transformation you are looking
for in your own life with your body really is possible.

I struggled all through my childhood
and young

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Hello.
My name is Dovida Goodman.
I am going to take the risk here to speak very personally.
I am doing this because perhaps
you might see yourself in what I write
and therefore my words can serve to help you know
that you are not alone,
and that the transformation you are looking
for in your own life with your body really is possible.

I struggled all through my childhood
and young adulthood with overeating and my weight.
In examining why I had this challenge,
I came to understand that I had learned to express emotional pain through my body.
As a child, feeling powerless
and out of control over things happening in my life,
I turned my attention to my own body
- something I could control -
and made that the problem,
as a way to survive.

At the tender age of 9,
long before there was even a word for it,
I became anorexic.
Thus began a very long history of dieting,
losing weight, and then gaining it back.
Up and down 20 pounds every year until I was 16 yrs old.
Then something snapped,
and I gained 80 pounds in less than a year.
At a time when girls start to date,
I was horrified about my body
and became very withdrawn.

I was 5 feet 5 inches and weighed 210 pounds.
I felt very ashamed.
I was distracting myself from
all the feelings that were inside
that I wanted to hide from myself and others,
by focusing on wanting to hide my body.

Over the years, through learning healthy eating habits
and becoming less afraid of and willing to face
what I was trying to hide with food,
I gradually lost weight.

One of the major turning points was making a pact with
myself that I would never again try to make myself go hungry with any diet.
The truth is - you don't have to.
Deprivation diets always lead to rebellion, sooner or later.

Some of the powerful things I have learned
along the way are:

1) There is, and has always been a good reason
why any person overeats.
There is never a reason to feel shame, or self blame.
All you have to do is take some action.

If you are reading this, then you have taken that most important action of finding your way to Team Beachbody.

2) Diets fail because people try to do it alone.
It takes support - lots of support - daily support.
You will find that support here at Team Beachbody.

So what happened to me?
For the past 18 years I have maintained
a weight of 122 pounds.
Truly a miracle for someone who
had been as addicted to food
and overeating as I was.
With grace and knowledge and a whole lot of support,
I have transformed the anguish of an eating disorder
into the freedom to never again worry about being fat.
It's true. That fear has been banished.
It doesn't even show up in my dreams at night.

People ask me for before and after pictures.
Unfortunately, I never allowed any one to take a photo
of me when I was overweight,
so no before pictures exist.

If any of my story rings true for you
and weight is still a struggle for you,
please know that anyone - ANYONE -
can recover and transform
their relationship to food, their body, and to their life.

I am here to support anyone who wants a helping hand.

With love,
Dovida

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