Food during my early years was a very difficult issue for me. I grew up in an addictive family. My mother had serious problems with alcohol and prescription drugs. I was an overweight kid. I can remember back in those days there weren't the strategies that there are today to deal with those issues.

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This quote highlights the speaker's struggle with food and their upbringing in an addicted family. Growing up with a mother who had alcohol and prescription drug problems, the speaker faced challenges with food and became overweight as a child. They reflect on the lack of strategies available at that time to address these issues, suggesting a lack of support and resources in dealing with their relationship with food.

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