Treatment – Cont

Two meals were served at the treatment center, breakfast and lunch which was the biggest adjustment for me.  I was given limited choices, a finite amount of food to eat and a time frame in which to eat it.  Eating with a group of girls who were anorexic and bulimic and who didn’t want to eat was really uncomfortable.  Here I was hoping for more food and trying to stretch the portion so I didn’t finish it within the first 5 minutes of the 30 minute meal when the others were trying to avoid it at all costs!  What a foreign concept.  To make matters worse, we had to avoid food rituals that I didn’t even know were food rituals until the counselor scolded me when I engaged in the behavior.  Can you say awkward?!?!