You can read her life story here but the TL;DR version is:  I was born with a genetic impairment. It didn’t really kick in until I was in my late teens, fairly common for connective tissue disorders. By that time though, I was already pretty over weight  So she had a condition, but that condition wasn't what made her fat.  She ended up losing a whole person, but then started binging after eating fewer than 1000 calories in a day. She calls it restricting... but really, even if you don't eat anything at all for a whole day, it doesn't count if you eat 2 days worth of food the next day. The only reason she lost any weight is because she was stuffing her face all day every day before that. Oh and get this. When she felt bad about binging, what was the horrible thing she did to herself? Stepped on a scale.