Heidi Brodersen, 39 years old, warehouse operative. “Ever since I was a teenager my whole life has been about food. About diets, about losing weight, gaining weight, losing weight, gaining weight. Constantly” ”It becomes an obsessive thought. I just don’t have any peace until I eat. I can keep on fighting and try with sanity and tell myself “no” and “don’t”, but it will not leave me alone. I can get into a panic if the thought of food is there and I can’t have a lot to eat.” As a child Heidi wasn’t overweight until she was 13 years old. Her classmates started bully her and call her “Vincent”. She was never told why, but at that time Beauty and The Beast was very popular and the beast’s name was Vincent. As she thought her classmates meant she was ugly and stupid she started to eat for comfort. In 2010 Heidi had a gastric bypass surgery. It has helped on her weight, but she still binges. Sometimes she can get into a panic for not being able to eat as much as she did before. She tries anyway and only stops when she is sweating and shakes.