While people are talking about the morality issue of food. And that it should or should not enter the equation. I believe it isn't escapable whether we wish it were or not. I have been in ED treatment, where one could say I was taught about the morality of food.

Food has a purpose, to nourish and sustain our bodies.. so there is a question here of morality. Our culture is very removed from the original purpose of food. Food has become a form of entertainment, and we are glutenous, on the whole in our society.

Hamster you do look at food in both terms of taste and value to the body. You know what... tons of people don't. I think you are doing better than you think you are, especially considering where most of us westerners are finding our food. You are not eating at fast food chains everyday, your not loading up on chemicals, preservatives, sugars, and basically have a diet that consists of actually very little food. The west is well known for eating tons of junk that should not even be considered food.

I still think that if you give yourself a little more credit, you will get where you are wanting to be. With out meds for this, you are clearly on the right track. Yes we all eat some stuff that is not the best for us, and we can all work on that. But I don't think you are as bad off in the food arena as you might think you are. The fact that you did make changes while waiting for the medication to come... is proof of self will power. Same with your exercise, you prove you can do it. So you just work on keeping it going, to a level that you are happy with. It is doable, you prove that you are capable all the time. I know you don't think so, but if that were true... we would never see threads from you saying you did it, and we see them all the time. As they would say.. the proof is in the pudding!