Dear Striving:

So you are striving to look thin which you perceive as attractive. You are underweight and you continue to diet, that is to restrict your calorie intake. I am very familiar with eating lots of low calorie foods and am a kind of an expert on that, plus I do go overboard with none caloric sweetener, stevia.

But to striving, you wrote that you were brought up with the message then, that being thin is most important. Did your parent or parents tell you so? Made negative comments about you or people eating too much? Made you feel that you will be rejected if you eat too much and gain weight?

And did you attend psychotherapy or counseling of any kind, self help groups regarding this disordered eating and the fear of abandonment and rejection at the core of it?

anita