"Yes," she said harshly, "but oh, so much, much more. To see the problem in
terms of eating is to simply scratch the surface. That’s the symptom. The
disease... The disease... The disease is control. To master the one thing
in your life you have control of. Your body. There was so much wrong happening in my life then... My mother—" She cut herself off and changed the
subject. "People think, even I did, it was about weight, about beauty. It
isn’t."