Recently a woman joined my eating disorders group who doesn’t have issues with bingeing, purging, restricting, or compulsively overeating. She talked a lot about needing to diet… and about her weight being everyone else’s fault. She gained weight because she moved to the South and everyone is lazier than in the North. She gained weight because her boyfriend buys junk food. But, her biggest problem? Food allergies. She is allergic to everything. Including:

Fish (she can’t even be in rooms where fish was cooked …