I’ve sat with people whose lives have been narrowed by food — not simply by what they eat, but by what eating has come to mean . Some arrive with numbers and rules: calories, weigh-ins, rituals, the blunt logic of control. Others speak in a quieter register: exhaustion, shame, dread, a body that feels like an accusation, an appetite that feels like a moral failure. From the outside, it can look like a problem of discipline or appearance. From the inside, it is more often a pr