The person who is a compulsive overeater is often someone who wants what he or she wants right now, if not before. When we take inventory, many of us realize that impatience is one of our most troublesome character defects. We are impatient with other people when they do not see things our way, we are impatient with the slowness of weight loss, and we are impatient when we do not seem to be making emotional and spiritual progress.

Many individuals with eating disorders do not see a correlation with having an eating disorder and self-sabotaging behaviors. Essentially he or she is self-sabotaging themselves and they do not even know they are engaging in these types of behaviors. To a loved one, friend, coworker or family member it may seem obvious unfortunately, however, he or she is the last to know this is a common defense mechanism.

The question asked is “Does Fear and Eating Disorders Live Together?” The answer is a resounding yes! Fear keeps people stuck and locked into continuing the behavior of an eating disorder. Fear is a powerful negative emotion, a learned habitual behavior.

First off I would like to say that someone can feel over-weight and not be over-weight. The way to determine this is by the body mass index some know this as BMI. This BMI chart was created to show people who are on the low end of the spectrum for the height and weight are just as dangerous and susceptible to death as those individuals on the high end of the BMI chart.