Eating problems are about more than just food. They begin when someone starts to believe that their life would be different were they thinner. Their weight, size and shape become a scapegoat for all that they struggle with in their life and self-hatred is not far behind. They resolve to lose weight, generally unable to see their real shape as many do not really need to lose any at all. Strict rules about what to eat (or not to eat) are made. Some are successful in restricting their eating, and sometimes exercising fanatically, and become caught up in the intoxicating high they get as they see themselves losing weight. But as their life does not improve and the problems they suffer do not go away they resolve to lose more weight. It becomes a mirage: something they see but can never quite get to. They think ‘if only I could lose another few pounds it would all be ok’, but each time they achieve their aim, they make a new resolve to lose yet more weight. For others, the strict diet is doomed to fail. Their starving bodies demanding food lead them to crave the very things they feel they should not eat. Eventually that control breaks down and they start to binge eat. Terrified of putting on weight they try to find something they can do to get rid of what they have eaten – so they exercise, make themselves sick or abuse diet pills or laxatives. This however simply makes the binging worse and soon a vicious cycle has built up. Still more react to their binging by developing a new resolve. They try the latest diet, eating plan or exercise regime in a hope that it will stop their binge eating. But they continue to set themselves unrealistic goals, and therefore are doomed to fail.
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