She started the first anti-dieting group for women in 1970. She was a member of the faculty of the New School for Social Research. Currently, she is the codirector of the National Center for Overcoming Overeating. The Overcoming Overeating Philosophy Compulsive eaters are people whose hands or minds move toward food when they are not at all hungry. Compulsive eating has nothing to do with the size of your body.
Compulsive eaters come in all shapes and sizes.
Compulsive eating has to do with how many hours you spend preoccupied with thoughts about what you are eating and what you look like. Diets never, ever solve eating and weight problems. Diets cause compulsive eating. Food is not the compulsive eater's problem, it is the solution. The Overcoming Overeating approach teaches people how to eat their way out of an eating problem.