Why do I feel like a failure when I am feeling full and strong when I am hungry?
The conflict between eating and not eating goes on constantly in an anorexic or bulimic person. The same complicated conditions exist between food and the patient’s own body. When the eating is disordered, that is, when satiety signals do not end the meal, you have to guess whether and how much to eat and whether you are satisfied. You do not experience intermediate stages of satiation, such as feeling a little satisfied, quite hungry or extremely full. Instead you think: either I eat or I avoid eating. Not eating feels like you are in control, while eating feels like you have lost control because you risk becoming fat when you eat. When you learn to eat normally again, you can trust your biological signals that tell you that you are full and you will then not be afraid of eating too much.