A Head Full of Beauty

I hate food. I hate food. Food destroys people. I ate cake. And cake. Cake. Seriously, I ate cake and then cake. I want to starve more than anything. If I'm happy here why is that not enough? I thought this was gonna be so easy. And I long for the days when I just didn't eat, and it was wonderful. It's control, wonderful, wonderful control i want to stop eating i just... i just don't see another option

So I've been at school for nearly two weeks now. I eat three meals a day. Like a heroine addict gone cold turkey I sit there after dinner tense and twitching... food in my stomach, a full stomach, totalling up the calories in my head over and over, add on an extra 100 just in case... overestimating everything, still too much... it would have been so easy not to eat those potatoes, so easy to have eaten less, shit, shit, shit... ...it's ok, it's ok, normal people eat this, IT'S OK, don't you dare throw up, I must not throw up, I have not over-eaten, I have not even had 2000 calories yet, people eat 2000 calories!, I need this food, I am allowed this food, don't you dare throw up... And most times I manage it. And it's ok. Last Wednesday I bought a packet of dried fruit and a packet of fruit and nuts for my room. And after dinner I came back, ate the lot and threw everything up. And I felt calm and in control again. So now I'm not allowed any f...

As to the man whose heart obeys his belly, he causes disgust in place of love. His heart is wretched, his body is gross, he is insolent toward those endowed of the God. He that obeys his belly has an enemy. Instruction of Ptahhotep, c. 2350 BC I arrived back from Egypt a week ago - feeling better than I have since... since I can remember. It's a breath of fresh anonymity, travelling on a boat with strangers you will never see again. The sunshine agreed with me - the food less so, but never mind. I have always wanted to go to Egypt since I was a little girl for the culture and history, and while that side of the trip was nonetheless amazing, it was getting away that made all the difference. I physically felt all the tension and hate draining away from my body - whenever a terrible thought or anxiety about my life came into my head, it blew away again - because my life was so far away in a distant land. The beauty of landscape, the stillness of the mystical Nile, the hot sun car...