Dear Gigi:

I suggest psychotherapy with a competent, caring and hard working therapist (like the one I finally found) to deal with your anxiety. Insight into your childhood, skills of emotional regulation, mindfulness… these are priceless.

Regarding the food, I would stay, the biggest problem you described is overeating. Restricting what you can eat only causes cravings for the “bad foods”- it is better that you allow yourself to eat anything at all that your heart desires, in small amounts.

Banning foods fuels craving for banned foods. What we ban we crave. So … ban not.

anita