Elna ran out of diet pills and couldn't find a way to get them any more. So she went looking for an alternative, and sos, i go camgong to go to atherapist. I'll pretend ive a dh d, and i'll just get after all. And so i'd never been to therapy in my life, ever,. But he kept asking me these pretty pointed personal questions that were pushing me to ton like, ok, actually, what is really going on with me? She says: 'The last several years of her life have been very much dedicated to finally learning how to feel'
From the time she was a little girl, Elna Baker had dreamed of being thin. And she did become thin. She lost close to 100 pounds in five months. For a while Elna thought she was living her dream life, until she realized that she had lost herself in the process.
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