Last month, I reviewed a book that deeply distressed me about eating disorders. The answers that the book had were to shift the desire for control over one's life from food to other things like relationships. The answer wasn't what I was hoping for and what I feel in my heart as I've watched several friends live and struggle with eating disorders. I found this quote in Starved by Nancy Alcorn "The enemy wants you to believe that because you can deny yourself food you have some sort of power over your body and over your life. But the Bible says that we are slaves to whatever controls us (2 Peter 2:19...Satan is your adversary, your enemy. He wants you to believe that you are in control of your life, but this is a deception tactic to keep you in bondage. The way to walk in freedom is to choose to surrender control of your life to God instead of trying to control your life yourself." The hardest part about eating disorders is that they begin, not out of a ...