Week 2: Step 1 | The Doctors Opinion

Real Compulsive Eaters don't lack willpower or a sufficient moral philosophy to eat normally; they literally have a physical craving which results in an uncontrollable allergic reaction for more.

Once they put excess food in their body (or purge, obsess, meal-skip) it actually kicks off a craving for more, and the compuslive eater never knows when it will begin or when it will end. Sometimes they can pick up or act out without a problem, other times they cannot. They may not know when the obsession will take them, but it always will, eventually.

They cannot stop abruptly or they cannot stay stopped for good and for all. Sometimes they can stop for days, weeks, months or years....but eventually their compulsive eating returns. This gets worse, never better over time.

Here, Doctor Silkworth's letter to the Greater Medical Society explains how Compulsive Eaters (sometimes called Food Addicts), just like alcoholics, have a physical allergy to compulsive eating that can only be stopped by entire abstince from acting out in the first place. 

But how could they accomplish this?

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