I was once in environmental therapy, long long time ago, and you HAD to do as they said. They were obsessed with eating. I was there from 8 or 9 to 3 and within that time they managed to squeeze in 4 meals. I told them straightout I cannot eat like that, I will be a blob in notime.

They told me I HAD to eat normal (normal not healthy cuz we sure didn't get healthy food), and if I needed to lose, I simply had to walk it off.

Back then I didn't know how little calories exercise actually burns or I would have told them. The extra calories they made me eat in one day would have taken 7 hours walking off! They made it sound like I needed like 30 minutes.

So I started being sneaky and pretend I ate more than I did. It wasn't too hard because I'm a natural slow eater. But I hate being deceptive. But just because they could eat crap every day PLUS junk and still stay skinny doesn't mean I can.

I was almost thrown out of therapy for not eating cookies. They forced me to eat sugar free cookies. And mind you, this therapy had NOTHING to do with eating disorders. Sigh. It could have given me one though....

People are crazy, crazy I tell you!