Episode #140 Featuring Lexi Noel! Prioritizing REAL FOOD! Exposing the harmful food industry, REAL vs. Processed Foods, Food as Medicine, God's GUIDANCE, FAITH and more!

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**Dylan Gemelli** (1:37)
Welcome back to The Dylan Gemelli Podcast. So I have a treat today. My guest flew in from Alabama to see me, and she does some absolutely amazing work that I am really excited to get into, because I love, love, love to talk about food. I love to talk about nutrition, all of the problems going on, and she has been involved into so many different key aspects of food and helping people. And so we're going to have a lot of fun today, and we're going to talk about some problems that her and I both share that we've went through together, how we deal with them overcome, and try to provide some inspiration to people along the way through the teachings that we're going to provide. So she is a 20-year-old wellness creator, and she's a speaker, and she's an advocate for real food living.
She was diagnosed with anorexia at 13 years old, and she was told that recovery meant relying on ultra-processed food. So we're going to have a field day with that, I can tell you right now. But she chose a different path, which I absolutely love, and it was rooted in whole nourishing foods. But the part I love about this most is the deepening faith and reliance in Jesus. So we're going to talk a great deal about that today as well, because that is my favorite topic of discussion. So my friends, welcome Lexi Noel.

**Lexi Noel** (2:58)
Hi, thank you so much for having me.

**Dylan Gemelli** (2:59)
Thank you for coming and seeing me, Lexi. I have never made it a secret about the eating disorder battle.
Started when I was 11, and it can make or break you, as you know. Now, I started at a young age, you started dealing with it at a young age. When did that really, really become an issue for you with like body image? Because it's not just food, it's body image.

**Lexi Noel** (3:23)
You know, I think back to the time when I was 13, and before then when I was 12, and I always try to think what exactly caused it. But I had an amazing childhood growing up. I mean, my family is amazing at growing up. I had no trauma. It was perfect. And then I do remember sitting in youth group, and they were doing a series, like every Wednesday night of young adults who are about my age now, telling their story about how they grew in their faith and how they went through battles that tested their relationship with God. And I remember sitting there being like, man, I have like no story. My life has been great. My life has been so good. And then like two months later, I kind of immediately went down the path of just Satan getting into your head. And just saying, you're not worthy.
You look awful in the mirror when you look at yourself. And then quickly, I started losing a lot of weight. And that's kinda when my eating disorder started.

**Dylan Gemelli** (4:15)
When you say you started to lose a lot of weight, were you starving yourself or were you terrified of food? Like what was going on?

**Lexi Noel** (4:21)
I did just stop eating. It started off of just like skipping breakfast and then skipping lunch and then having these super small dinner. And it, you know, started to semi-down the path.