Reasonable diet and exercise programs, if followed consistently, help provide a person with health and strength. But when programs completely bypass such underlying issues of eating disorders, the programs are doomed to fail. The tragedy is that often the person doesn't know it was the program that failed. The person with the eating disorder, all ready racked with guilt and self-punishing thoughts, is certain that he or she was the failure. This only perpetuates despair.
Most current research acknowledges that underlying causes of overeating are complex and profound.
Yet people still search for and are being offered diets as answers. M.F.C.C. Psychotherapist in private practice specializing in eating disorders 10573 W. Pico Blvd.