Sherry Amy

My name is Sherry and I’m a 15 year old vegan foodie with a passion for veganism, health and compassion. I am a ballet and yoga amateur and I am an advocate to nutrition and peace.
I'm Moroccan, French, and British and I grew up between Rabat, Marrakesh and Tangiers. In late 2012 I moved to Abu Dhabi where a new experience and lifestyle opened to me. I go to an IB school and I am currently in grade 10 getting ready and prepared for my two final years. I am juggling between work and my own well being which can be chanllenging sometimes and this is what I'm here to help you with.
Last year, early March, I was diagnosed with anorexia nervosa and that's when a lot of things around me -including myself- changed. In a very short amount of time I lost up to 16 kilos and I could barely go up the stairs without stopping half way through to have a rest. I lost my hair and my muscles but my mental illness was still forcing me to neglict food and exercise instead.
Months pasted and I was very soon introduced to another eating disorder- Binge Eating Disorder (also known as BED). I developed binge eating because of my previous restrictions with food. I have quite a bad relation with BED because it made me gain a crazy amount of weight in such a short period of time and this is the root to all guilt, and anxiety (since my lowest weight I gained about 17 kilos in 6 months).
I am still struggling with BED and I am still recovering from anorexia even though a lot of people think that I am recovered. I'm battling everyday confrontations and I'm striving to recover from my eating disorder to be able to love and accpet myself as I am.

While I was still at my lowset weight (37kg), I discovered veganism and its purpose. I was at first very impressed and exited because I discovered that vegan food was equal to fear-free and guilt-free foods and that I could eat without feeling guilty or without having the urge to purge. I wanted to 'go vegan' for the sole purpose of eating foods I wasn't afraid of and gain weight from these 'good foods'. So that was my recovery moto; as soon as I would be weight restored I would be able to go vegan, but things changed with binge eating and I started gaining a lot phisycally without gaining anything mentally.

So later on with research and enthusiam I started analyzing the real term of veganism. My nutritionist told me that people went vegan for a cause and for a reason and that it was a lifestyle to t