Being told how HOT I am (laugh) kidding, although since I was deprived of that as a teenager, now in my early 20s I eat that stuff up.

I love being able to indulge in cooking and creating DELICIOUS foods and not have them do terrible things to my body when I eat them. I have SUCH a passion for food.

I love feeling ALIVE and healthy and strong and alert and not to have my life controlled by my binges and secret eatings and feelings of guilt and self loathing for my lack of self control and my fatness.

I like walking down the street and feeling normal to attractive, rather than overweight and outcast. Ok, so this doesn't happen as frequently in Europe as the sizes are much smaller.... but over here it's life and I enjoy it and feel grateful for picking up the Atkins book when I was 16 and secretly reading it and returning it to my parents book stash.