Today is a New Day!

Dear Readers,
Ritualized eating is an attempt to control impossible social situations. This can be a response to dysfunctional families (what family is functional?) or a relationship to school, work, or regional environments. Sometimes abusive love relationships can trigger eating disorders. The following examples are a short version of how people with eating disorders keep themselves from feeling the abuse they endure in daily life:

1, Cutting a slice of pizza into twelve pieces and then eating exactly six as a meal. Eating four 2 inch prices of iceberg lettuce. 
2. Eating four perfectly measured bowls of cereal every Sunday morning and then vomiting all of it back up.  
3. Making a cake by mixing up two cake batters and drinking one of them secretly. 
4. Eating and drinking so many calories that oblivion sets in. You are in a drunken stupor. When it wears off you do it again. 
5. Eating normally. Then running ten miles a day and taking laxatives to induce diarrhea.  

If you can recognize a behavior in yourself or someone close to you even similar to those I listed above then you understand what I'm trying to say. 
Don't fight yourself anymore with punishing and rewarding with food. 
Fight the abuse that comes from outside of yourself. Start by sending love to the very core of your being. 
Don't take any more crap. Be nice to yourself. Be nice to others as long as you are not in an abusive relationship with them. End any abusive relationships you are in. Be the person you were born to be. A unique beautiful being who deserves to feel loved. 
Please feel free to respond with your stories. There are so many of us that we might not recognize what we do is an illness. The start of healing is to see that there is something in you that needs to heal. 
Love, 
Diana