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From "Love Yourself Thin" by Victoria Moran
Copyright 1997
1. This diet/pill/doctor will be the one that works.
2. I ate too much (or gained weight) so I�m a bad person
3. No one else eats like I do
4. I�m fat and disgusting
5. I broke my diet, so I�m a failure
6. I ate two extra peas. That means I�ve blown it and have to eat half a gallon of ice cream
7. I�ve lost weight now and so life is supposed to be perfect
8. I�ve lost weight now, so I�m cured
9. This time I�ll just have a little bit
10. I�ll get back on my diet tomorrow
11. Eating will make me feel better
12. I have to eat something to get through this tragedy/term paper/telephone call
13. When I lose weight, I�ll be beautiful
14. When I lose weight, my husband/wife/lover will love me (or I�ll get a new husband/wife/lover)
15. When I lose weight, my mother/father/other significant person will love and accept me (even if they�re dead)
16. When I lose weight, I�ll do everything I ever wanted to do
17. I feel fat (in response to being full, depressed, premenstrual, or constipated, but also in response to rejection, disappointment or presumed failure).
18. If I eat while I read, it won�t count (the same goes for food sampled during cooking)
19. I deserve a treat (euphemism for extra food), or I deserve to be punished (food can do that, too).
From "Love Yourself Thin" by Victoria Moran
Copyright 1997
1. Hide Food
2. Sneak Food
3. go on diets, usually on Mondays
4. Make promises, vows, and deals with themselves, others, and God about eating less and losing weight
5. Lie to themselves, others, and God
6. Avoid scales or weigh themselves compoulsively
7. Dissociate from their bodies � live from the neck up
8. Put off living (shopping, swimming, vacationing, making love) until weight is lost
9. Detest physical exercise or become addicted to exercise (but may still detest it)
10. Feel unattractive or conditionally attractive based upon a scale number or clothing size
11. Hate fat people (or thin people)
12. Have special binge foods as drugs of choice (Chocolate, sweets, and salty snacks are favorites) but could binge on almost anything in a pinch
13. Eat others� leftovers, unthawed frozen foods, or nonfoods (such as wrappers from muffins, used tea bags, or chewing gum)
14. Vomit after a binge or even after a moderate meal or snack (known as bulimia)
15. Diet successfully for a time, then gain back as much as or more weight than was lost (the ability to diet eventually ceases altogether)
16. Fast at times relatively easily, finding it less trying to eat nothing than to eat moderately
17. Feed other people, especially when depriving themselves
18. Cook and bake � though in later stages of the disease, these may fall aside in favor of ready-made, instant gratification items
19. Please people, be �sweet�
20. Deal inappropriately with anger, either denying (�stuffing�) it or having attacks of rage, usually toward someone powerless such as a child or pet
21. Switch compulsions, such as giving up food for a time and becoming addicted to drugs (like diet pills), relationships, or spending