Avoiding food had become so easy. In the initial wee

The full-length mirror in her bedroom was the one enemy she had trouble facing. For hours she would stand in front of it staring at her skeletal reflection. The image in the mirror reflected a tired unhealthy emaciated frame, but she still saw rolls of fat drooling over her body. Her breasts had turned into tiny empty sacks that hung limply from her chest. The skin across her stomach was stretched tightly over her protruding hipbones. Knees, elbows and collar bone stuck out from under her skin, every rib in the cage could be seen but it still wasn't enough.

Dinner was the only meal that anyone would be there to see her consumption of food, or lack there of. She would pick restlessly at her food, rearranging the contents on the plate whilst keeping the family occupied with endless chatter. When no one was watching she would leave the tale and scrape her plate into the bin.

Guilt played an overwhelming part in this act of deprivation. Any time a morsel of food escaped her guard and entered her body, she was consumer with guilt. . She came to know the reflection in the toilet

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