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Volume 10, Issue 15, Week of April 15, 2013
Saskatoonʼs REAL Community Newspaper
Saskatoon author takes on eating disorders Food used to drive Treena Wynes crazy. Just six years ago, a drawer filled with gummy worms and a Diet Coke was her afternoon source of energy. Now the author of Eating Myself Crazy says she’s at peace. Wynes’ problem with food began at age 14. She turned to purging, and plummeted into a vicious cycle, becoming fully bulimic until her early 20s. “I had this emotional dependency on food,” said Wynes. “It was this addiction and it was such an awful, nightmarish struggle. Although I knew what I was doing to myself, and I wanted to stop, I just couldn’t. I talk about that in my book. It’s really quite graphic and it explains what led to that, how I got caught up in that and the years I was stuck in that.” Wynes, now a mother of two, says her recovery began around the age of 22. This is Wynes’ second book Columnist on health and well-being. The first book was a self-published title called Eating Ourselves Crazy. This time around, Wynes teamed up with Suzanne Paschall, the founder of Indie Ink Publishing, to publish and market Eating Myself Crazy. This difference this time is that Wynes’ personal struggle with bulimia is included. “I want to tell people, ‘You know what, look at where I came from,’ ’’ Wynes said. “The self-published book got the attention of the publisher, who said I needed to tell my story. I think people don’t realize how common this is. Now that I’ve told my story, I realize how important it was to come to terms and put it in the pages. It got me thinking about it, then writing about it and now talking about it. “Through counselling others and seeing this pattern, I really want these disorders and these struggles to be this wall of shame. Parts of the book I’m kind of funny. It’s not to make light of the situation or the disorder, but it’s just so people feel more comfortable stepping forward.” A black and white picture shows a round-faced young Wynes in a grade-school portrait in the first few pages. It’s hard to tell, but she was crying because 10 minutes prior to the picture she was told she was fat.
JOELLE TOMLINSON
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“The funny thing is, during my bulimia years, I was probably about 20 pounds heavier than I am now,” Treena Wynes said. ML70534.D15 (Photo Submitted) Mary