What is your addiction?

Weight watchers is a paid service where you buy their shakes and their packaged meals and their books and then you meet weekly to pay your fees and get weighed. It's a commercial enterprise based around counting in a made-up points system and using supplements for short-term weight loss. It's profitable because it works in the short term and then when you reach your goal weight, you rebound and gain the weight back.

People go through it over and over, and what I want is to resolve the things that cause me to binge eat massively. I want to fix the reasons why I want to destroy myself, not be given a certificate for accumulating the most gold stars in a week.

No, the psychiatrist I saw was nothing to do with diet or eating disorders. As I said, I can't get anyone to take this seriously in any way - when you're fat, people assume that you're stupid and just don't know how to feed yourself sensibly. You get given patronising little chats about vegetables and sent away with leaflets about a balanced diet, or asked if you've ever thought about learning to cook.

I asked my GP if I could be referred to someone who could help arrange some therapy around eating disorders. He didn't seem to think that was appropriate and said he wouldn't really know where to refer me.

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