I started to obsess about my weight and looks. My mother always bought me beautiful clothes, and I noticed the thinner I got the more positive attention I received from the people around me. This started me on a lifelong struggle of crazy dieting and becoming more restrictive in my eating.

I come from a long line of Jewish mothers who equated food with love. My family used to joke that for my grandmother if you weren't "as big as a house," you were too thin. Find out how this stuck-at-home 60-something is re-writing that script.