When I was twelve I stopped eating for no apparent reason and dropped down to sixty pounds. It's more like the horror of having a body at all, when the anorexic feels literally like nothing. She can feel the abyss opening up inside her, taking over, and she's got no strong self to resist or balance it.
Starvation is a way of joining it.
When I first got access to the Internet, I scrambled for hundreds of hours trying to organize my little world of information by making rather useless Web pages with multiple links. At a certain point, I realized that I had more of a compulsion to order disparate information than an actual concern over what the information itself conveyed. For me, hitting the middle road occured by suddenly realizing I existed in an extreme state of information consumption, and that I wasn't happy being a human search-engine. So I started a diet with a reduced information intake. The protagonist of the film, however, only allows acceptance of this intake reduction after going overboard and literally eating a book.