My theory on this is that you can’t ever actually beat anorexia: you can only abandon it. If you’re a fighter, a determined, wilful person, it’s tempting to stay in its company and meet its constant goading and challenges. But in my opinion, anorexia is the ultimate fighter, the challenger, the energy that’s always trembling with the need to dominate, to overcome, to beat out all the competition and be better than everyone else. I think that perhaps the only way to defeat anorexia is to defeat the feeling of worthlessness,
