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In the fat war, there are no victims—only volunteers. That fat didn’t just happen. You created the shape of your body internally, by how you feel about yourself and the things you say to yourself, and externally by the food choices you make. If you are always criticizing yourself, putting yourself down, telling yourself how awful you look, how greedy and disgusting you are, you will never lose weight permanently. No-one ever lost weight by being humiliated.

Bingers—people who use food in response to emotions rather than hunger – live with this continual low-grade preoccupation with food which erodes their self-esteem but seems normal to them. Regardless of their weight, many women feel uncomfortable about some aspect of their body. They dislike the body they live in and, as a result, end up disliking the person who lives there.

Most bingers are aware of the fact that their weight is creeping up. As weight gain is a relatively slow process, however, they tend to deny that this is happening. They refuse to admit that they eat anything fattening. ‘Oh come on, a couple of biscuits at teatime isn’t going to put on that much weight!’ and live in a state of permanent denial. You only confront the issue when forced to do so either by a medical examination or having to let out your shower curtain! By then, instead of just dropping 10 pounds, you find you need to lose three stone to look halfway decent.

But suppose it happened overnight? Suppose you went to bed weighing 8 stone 10 and woke up the next morning weighing nearly 14 stone, fat and bloated? You would be horrified and panic-stricken, wondering what sort of disease you had contracted overnight.

The disease is eating the wrong food—that ‘couple of biscuits’ multiplied 20 times over, day after day, week after week. That’s what you have been doing to yourself. The fact that it might have taken years rather than happened overnight is beside the point.

If the way you are behaving now is keeping you fat, you have to decide to behave in a different way.