Change, if it is to be long lasting, must occur on the unseen levels first

Compulsive eating is only the symptom; believing that you are not worth your own love is the problem. Go for the love. You will never be sorry.

Weight (too much or too little) is a by-product. Weight is what happens when you use food to flatten your life. Even with aching joints, it's not about food. Even with arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure. It's about your desire to flatten your life. It's about the fact that you've given up without saying so. It's about your belief that it's not possible to live any other way - and you're using food to act that out without ever having to admit it.

Awareness, not deprivation, informs what you eat. Presence, not shame, changes how you see yourself and what you rely on.

When you believe in yourself more than you believe in food, you will stop using food as if it were your only chance at not falling apart. When the shape of your body no longer matches the shape of your beliefs, the weight disappears. And yes, it really is that simple.

If LOVE could talk to you about your relationship with food, what would it say?

If you treat your feelings with as much love as you treat your dog or your cat or your child you'll feel as if you were living in heaven.