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Melissa Hartwig Urban: from hero in addict to Whole 30 founder
梅丽莎·哈特威格·厄本：瘾君子到Whole 30创立者
After years of feeling lost, she found herself through healthy eating—and launched a movement
在多年的失落之后，她通过健康饮食找到了自我，并发起了一场运动
In the calm, cozy living room of her Salt Lake City home, Melissa Hartwig Urban is sitting pretty.
在盐湖城(Salt Lake City)安静舒适的起居室里，梅丽莎·哈特威格·厄本(Melissa Hartwig Urban)端坐着。
Ten years after she cofounded Whole 30—a diet plan that's gained an obsessive following—she has a new book (her eighth), a weekly podcast and loves her life with a 6-year-old son and her boyfriend of three years, Brandon Talbot.
10年前，她与人共同创立了Whole 30，这是一个减肥计划，获得了狂热的追捧。10年后，她出了一本新书(她的第八本)，周更播客，享受自己与6岁儿子和交往3年的男友布兰登·塔尔博特(Brandon Talbot)共同生活。
"I never could have predicted things would turn out this way," she says. That's because Hartwig Urban, 45, now a certified sports nutritionist, was not always the picture of health.
“我从来没有预料到事情会变成这样，”她说。这是因为45岁的哈特维格·厄本(Hartwig Urban)现在是一名认证的运动营养学家，她并不总是健康的化身。
For five years she was addicted to heroin. "I felt worthless, but now I feel like my addiction was setting me up for this path."
她吸食海洛因成瘾达五年之久。“我觉得自己毫无价值，但现在我觉得我的毒瘾让我走上了这条路。”
The similarities between food and drugs—how people use them "to comfort, reward, self-soothe, punish," she says—helped form her business.
食物和毒品的相似之处——人们使用它们来“安慰、奖励、自我安慰、惩罚”，她说——帮助她建立了自己的事业。
Growing up in Nashua, N.H., with a stay-at-home mom and a father who worked two jobs, Hartwig Urban "had everything going for me in terms of financial support, family stability and good grades. It was all very vanilla."
哈蒂威格·厄本在新罕布什尔州纳舒厄长大，有一个全职妈妈和一个打两份工的父亲。她“在经济支持、家庭稳定和学习方面，都很顺利，都是香草味的。”
But in the early '90s, she says, she was sexually assaulted by a relative and was disappointed by her family's response. "I don't think they knew how to process it," she says.
但她说，在90年代初，她遭到一名亲戚的性侵犯，她对家人的反应感到失望。“我认为他们不知道如何处理这件事，”她说。
Feeling "abandoned and unheard," she decided to try marijuana at 18, just before becoming a premed student at the University of New Hampshire.
18岁时，她觉得自己“被遗弃了，无人理睬”，于是决定尝试吸食大麻，那是在成为新罕布什尔大学医学预科学生之前。
"I was like, 'This is what I've been missing.' " Before long Hartwig Urban was regularly using ecstasy, heroin, psychedelics and pills—and she began cutting, which gave her "a sense of relief and then crippling depression."
“我当时想，‘这就是我错过的东西。’”不久，哈特维希·厄本开始定期服用摇头丸、海洛因、致幻剂和药丸，她开始自残，这给了她“一种解脱感，然后是严重的抑郁症”。
She dropped out of college, got a job as an administrative assistant for an insurance company and soon realized her life was spiraling out of control.
她从大学辍学，在一家保险公司找了一份行政助理的工作，很快就意识到她的生活正在失去控制。
"I was either going to go to jail or die," says Hartwig Urban. After two stints in rehab, "I felt very lost, but I knew that I had so much in my life that I had to rebuild."
“我要么进监狱，要么去死，”哈特威格·厄本说。在两次接受康复治疗后，“我感到非常失落，但我知道我的生活中有太多东西需要重建。”
Time, therapy and a fortuitous day at the gymchanged everything. In 2009, after a grueling CrossFit session, her exhusband Dallas Hartwig "proposed cleaning up our diet.
时间、治疗和幸运的一天改变了一切。2009年，她的前夫达拉斯·哈特威格(Dallas Hartwig)在一次艰苦的体能训练后，“提议改善我们的饮食。
I said, 'Yeah, when do you want to start?' He said, 'How about right now?' " The couple—who divorced in 2015—designed a 30-day elimination diet and the Whole 30 was born.
我说，‘好啊，你想什么时候开始？他说，“现在怎么样?”2015年离婚的夫妇设计了30天的饮食排除法，于是Whole 30饮食法诞生了。
"My sleep improved, my mood was better and I had more energy," says Hartwig Urban.
哈特威格·厄本说：“我的睡眠质量提高了，心情变好了，精力也更充沛了。”
After a month of giving up sugar, dairy and grains, "you reintroduce those foods one day at a time, very carefully, to find out what doesn't agree with you."
在一个月不吃糖、奶制品和谷物后，“你每天都要非常小心地重新摄入这些食物，以找出哪些不适合你。”
While critics claim that the method is too restrictive or not sustainable, Hartwig Urban says it's "not meant to continue forever. You have to figure out what works for you."
尽管批评人士称这种方法限制太多或不可持续，但哈特威格·厄本表示，这种方法“并不意味着永远持续下去。你必须弄清楚什么对你有用。”
With the kind of unpredictable schedule that comes with success, Hartwig Urban is grateful to have one constant in her life—her son: "He changed everything. I became more patient, and that spilled into every area of my life."
随着成功而来的是那种不可预测的日程安排，哈特威格·厄本(Hartwig Urban)很感激自己的生活中有一个不变的东西——她的儿子：“他改变了一切。我变得更有耐心了，这影响到了我生活的方方面面。”
She's grateful for her relationship with Talbot too. "I never had someone who I felt like I could lean on for the good stuff and the hard stuff," she says of her boyfriend.
她也很感激她和塔尔伯特的关系。“从来没有一个人，让我觉得我可以依靠他，无论是好是坏，”她谈到她的男朋友时说。
"It's incredible to feel like someone's proud of what I'm doing." Urban gives herself credit as well: "I'm super proud. I've come into my own."
“感觉有人为我所做的事感到自豪，这是不可思议的。”厄本也对自己的表现表示赞赏：“我非常自豪。我已经有了自己的风格。”
