When you are acting out your eating disorder, you eat whatever will knock out feelings you don't want to have or simply cannot bear. You know what the binge foods are that do the job for you. And you know the consequences you experience later.

But what do you eat

People calll and write me, sharing their pain, hope and frustration as they look for a way out of an eating disorder and into a life of freedom.  In looking for various structures that can help them see where they are in their eating disorder experience I came upon the basic and familiar outline of a classic play.  A classic play consists of Act I, Act II, Act III. See if you can find where you are in this design.

Perhaps the biggest challenge confronting people in recovery from eating disorders is their own humanity. Whatever strengths, frailties and personal