In a diet and body-image-obsessed society, have we normalised under-eating with silent negative consequences?

A disordered relationship with food is akin to wearing an itchy jumper. A cheap, itchy jumper.

When you first put it on, it keeps you nice and warm. However, it is not made of very good wool, so it starts to itch after a while. Sometimes, you might feel like taking it off, but you know that if you do, you will be cold, so you put up with the itchiness. With time, however, the itchiness gets harder and harder to tolerate.

Thought-shape fusion explicitly impacts our body image by attaching a moral framework to food. This distortion materialises as a sensation in the body.

How might your relationship with food be serving you?

Hmmm. I am proposing that, consciously or not, your eating behaviours may have served a purpose in your life.