Heidi Rabbach was 11 years old when she nearly collapsed from hunger while delivering newspapers.
It was the first low point in her life on a diet.
Rabbach wanted to be thin, come what may. Not that she was fat.
“But I was talked into thinking I was because I didn’t have the deer-like legs many other girls had.
“I didn’t meet the slimness ideal, and it made me miserable,” she recalls.
The now 40-year-old stress management coach based in Germany tried all sorts of ways to slim down, including a low-carb diet, rice days and weight-loss pills.
They all left her with a craving for cake, but she didn’t give in to it.