'healthy weight' category. She said: 'I will only let myself eat 1,500 calories and I won't eat anything like butter or cake or anything unhealthy. 'If I eat something that tastes strongly or that I really enjoy, like salmon, I throw it back up again. 'I have spent so long denying myself any pleasure from food that I can't eat it now. I have a fear of being kind to myself. 'But I am pleased that I have progressed so far and that I have trained my body to cope with food again.' For i nformation and help on all aspects of eating disorders, including anorexia, visit www.b-eat.co.uk Comments ( 43 ) Lilith in England is absolutely right; the reaction to this article had the lady in question been obese would have very different.. Both obesity/anorexia are "mental" in origin and both cost the NHS money however one seems more acceptable than the other. A very close young member of our family became an anorexic at the age of 12 years old due to being bullied at school, She near died a number of times over the years and had to be forced feed by tube a number of times and was more in hospital than she was at home, But had most of her schooling in the hospital and went on to take her GCE and A levels when she was 21 years old, Last year 2010 she was excepted to Kings Uni London and is now studying mental