After 10 years of struggle with emotional eating, I became a fully qualified health coach, and was successfully helping upscale Manhattanites to get healthy.

But I was hiding a dark secret. In private, my destructive relationship with food remained, and behind closed doors I’d binge on peanut butter by the jarful and cookies by the packet.

When I was in the darkest moment of this dual life, I made a discovery that changed everything, when I learned how to work with, rather than against, the animal intelligence of my body. I went on to lose 20 pounds without deprivation, discipline or punishing exercise and using this same secret, you can too.