Bethenny Frankel Diet and Exercise, She recovered after years of fighting.

Bethenny Frankel didn't have a good relationship with her dad, but you know with what else she didn't have an easy time? Food and a proper exercise schedule. Bethenny admitted that she had a lot of trouble not micro-managing her diet in Us Weekly's current issue.

The Bethenny Ever After star said that her trouble started when she was eight years old, when she was first sent to an obesity clinic.

"I spent my entire life being obsessed with dieting," Bethenny told Us.

"Bingeing and then fasting or starving. Forbidding everything. That's how I used to be: up and down 5 pounds every single day, to the extremes. My metabolism was totally wrecked."

Bethenny Frankel's tried everything, from Atkins to cabbage-soup dieting, and she admitted that new diet descriptions were the reason why she'd buy women's magazines. Pair that with a compulsion to over-exercise, and you have a problem.

I suppose that's why Bethenny is so health conscious today, after seeing her own diet and exercise plan hurt her when it shouldn't have. Everything in moderation, doll, and that includes moderation! And working out! Eat a cookie, go to the gym... don't we wish it were that easy?

I hate to sound catty, but you can truly see the effects of Bethenny's hard dieting and exercise on her face and body. She looks strong, but at the same time, wasted and prematurely aged. I'm sure she learned more than a few lessons about how to treat one's body when she was super-dieting and living at the gym.