I'm not sure if there was a specific trigger for me. When I was little I was sick a lot because my mom was drinking, using, and smoking a lot and not eating healthy--plus my dad was beating the s**t out of her all the time. I didn't eat a whole lot because I was so sick, and when I started getting better, I was so used to not eating that I had to be forced to eat. My dad really went overboard on trying to get me to eat that he would actually shove food down my throat, give me way more than I could eat on my plate and forced me to eat all of it end I would end up getting sick over it--he forced me to do pie contests and I would get in trouble if I didn't eat the whole pie. Well, I eventually got used to that, and when I ended up living with my mom (they were divorced when I was pretty little), I kept up those eating patterns. Plus, we lived off of junk food and fast foods. My mom complely ignored me so I had to raise myself basically. I started puberty early, which was ruff 'cuz I ended up getting beat up a lot by other girls and I ended being molested and sexually abused quite a bit. Stuffing my face was a way to deal with it.