As a result, I've connected with Judaism. It's interesting, several women who go are Orthodox, Hasidic, Lubavitch. It's a spiritual program of recovery. But many women with eating disorders need more than divine intervention or support groups to recover. With the help of a team of experts, anorexics learn to overcome the fear that every bite they take will make them fat.
Bulimics learn to eat smaller meals, and ward off purging a little longer each day.
All of them learn to eat and exercise in moderation and to develop a more wholesome approach to life where food is only one part of it. At treatment centers, women meet to talk about how their obsession with food began and why they were so unhappy. What most of them realize is that what they've been yearning for all along is love and acceptance, not food. They also learn to be more realistic about their bodies and to accept that no matter how much weight they lose, they may never be able to look like models. Because the genetic shape of their body doesn't fit the cultural ideal they mistakenly think that losing weight will make them look like models.