Bear in mind - and I stress this to all the recent posters - this is a disease of OUR MINDS.Not a disease of society, of our bodies and how they do not conform, of the food we eat or how it wants to hurt us. The only thing broken is OUR MIND. But when it's your mind you use to determine danger, is that not the eternal paradox? If you are afraid of water, standing in a burning building, do you embrace the fire instead?
Listen, I know it sounds harsh on you guys, but I know harsh love is the most powerful. But as soon as you realise YOU are the problem, not the food or the people or the media or the judgement of your peers, you will be three-quarters there.When I was in the start of recovery I used what I call "elemental therapy."
I broke things down to simple blocks - elements.My body as it was needed exactly 1700 calories at it's most emaciated to maintain weight for a man. So I made that seventeen blocks. I calculated things as blocks. A Cadbury Freddo is a block. A banana, a block. A Big Mac? Five blocks.
By changing up the game and altering the format it was no longer so familiar, though it was calculative, and I was still able to use my neuroses, but in a way that ensured I got enough "blocks" a day to "beat" my 17-block target. It felt good some days when I got 20 blocks. Some days, I would get 22 blocks. No mention of calories or fat or anything. It was just like a secret "healing language".
Sometimes it's better to simplify as opposed to completely decimate something in details.