Individual’s living with an eating disorder doesn’t want to discuss the disease. Somehow by avoiding the discussions the disease is not real. People who have recovered from an eating disorder know that the secret of the disease keeps the individual in disease. If people do not acknowledge the eating disorder the disorder continues to live. Individuals seeking treatment are challenged with negative thoughts such as, now that the secret is out the people surrounding them will have expectations that the individual may or may not be able to live up too.

This is the lie that the disease wants he or she to believe, eating disorders affect every area of his or her life. Eating disorders plant seeds of being less than, not smart enough, capable enough. In order to recover the emotions must be addressed having the opportunity to go to an inpatient eating disorder treatment program allows the individual to get a firm grasp of the disease which wants them dead. That may sound cold and heartless nevertheless, the truth a slow miserable death is better than health and vitality.

Food is a requirement in life to live a healthy well balanced life the body needs fuel. Unlike drugs and alcohol which a person never has to confront again if they chose not too, food is necessary to live. The goal of inpatient eating disorder treatment is to teach individuals how to be comfortable with the food choices and the level of exercise appropriate to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Overtime individuals become comfortable and more relaxed with how they eat and what they eat. Acceptance becomes a way of life; no longer is punishing or rewarding food put in the rightful place a means to an end.