After years of unhealthy yo-yo dieting, Winfrey, a survivor of childhood trauma, who was raped at the age of 9, finally understood that finding peace with her body wasn’t going to be solved by the next fad diet.

Through an examination of her relationship with food, she learned that she was unconsciously eating her emotions.

“Food was just a symbol for me of repressing other feelings,” Winfrey told CBS in a 2017 interview.