It turns out that over-exercising and under-eating won’t get you anywhere

Maintaining a healthy number on the weighing scale had always been a tussle—my love for food and struggle with excess weight went hand-in-hand. In school, I was the most overweight girl in the room and I had trouble accepting my body for what it was. I also suffered from excessive, thick and dark hair growth on my chin, which was not diagnosed as a symptom of PCOS initially—I was simply told to take a hair reduction pill by my gynaecologist. With enough body-shaming from family and friends, by the age of 13, I became obsessed with the idea of losing weight.