Low Carb Mag July 2015 | Page 16

the best that they could at the time. There wasn’t that kind of information and there weren’t alternatives to dairy back in the early 80s when I was first diagnosed. There weren’t any alternatives to anything and nobody really read ingredients on boxes. We lived off on a lot of processed food and then by high school, I was working and I started eating a lot of fast food then I became a radio DJ a month out of high school when I was 17 years old and that was basically 60-hour work week so I lived off of fast food. I was living on my own from about 17 on. I never really learned how to cook. I ate really poorly. I got pregnant with my first daughter when I was 23. I decided I wanted to