Value
Abraham Garcia
Sangha
English 101
10 October 2012
Control
Hunger a feeling of discomfort or weakness caused by lack of food or desire to eat. A constant fight that Lamott had with food of etheir eating it or throwing it up because of personal image and not felling comfortable with the image you see in the mirror. Lamott was a very energetic girl, always hungry, always eating and always thin. At age thirteen she was 100 pounds but in one year gained 30 pounds and that’s where the problems begin, as her father was a victim of cancer she finaly discovered she was a victim of bulimia. Bulimia being the emotional disorder in which bouts of extreme overeating are followed by depression and self- induced vomiting, purging or fasting, these were clearly actions lamott took and were her daily actions. As her problems of control, alcohol and bulimia she finds the ticket to freedom for her problems. The ticket being that Rita Groszmann a eating disorder specialist who would guide her throughout the day and asked her if she was hungry or what hunger felt like, but Lamott just responded that “it was time to eat” which she didn’t experience hunger until age 33. Lamotts problems began at a young age as she described her actions,” this is the story of how, at the age of 33, I learned to feed myself. To begin with, here is what I did until then, I ate, starved, binged, grew fat, grew thin, grew fat, grew thin, binged, grew thinner”(221). One problem she had was bulimia which she discovered it when her father was found with brain cancer,” one week after my father was diagnosed with brain cancer I discovered bulimia, I felt like I discovered the secret of life because you could eat yourself into a state of emotional numbness but not gain weight, then I learned how to do it more effectively by reading articles in woman’s magazine on how to stop doing it. I barfed, but preferred laxitives. It was heaven I lost weight(222)”. This tells us how Lamott discovered of how easy it
Sangha
English 101
10 October 2012
Control
Hunger a feeling of discomfort or weakness caused by lack of food or desire to eat. A constant fight that Lamott had with food of etheir eating it or throwing it up because of personal image and not felling comfortable with the image you see in the mirror. Lamott was a very energetic girl, always hungry, always eating and always thin. At age thirteen she was 100 pounds but in one year gained 30 pounds and that’s where the problems begin, as her father was a victim of cancer she finaly discovered she was a victim of bulimia. Bulimia being the emotional disorder in which bouts of extreme overeating are followed by depression and self- induced vomiting, purging or fasting, these were clearly actions lamott took and were her daily actions. As her problems of control, alcohol and bulimia she finds the ticket to freedom for her problems. The ticket being that Rita Groszmann a eating disorder specialist who would guide her throughout the day and asked her if she was hungry or what hunger felt like, but Lamott just responded that “it was time to eat” which she didn’t experience hunger until age 33. Lamotts problems began at a young age as she described her actions,” this is the story of how, at the age of 33, I learned to feed myself. To begin with, here is what I did until then, I ate, starved, binged, grew fat, grew thin, grew fat, grew thin, binged, grew thinner”(221). One problem she had was bulimia which she discovered it when her father was found with brain cancer,” one week after my father was diagnosed with brain cancer I discovered bulimia, I felt like I discovered the secret of life because you could eat yourself into a state of emotional numbness but not gain weight, then I learned how to do it more effectively by reading articles in woman’s magazine on how to stop doing it. I barfed, but preferred laxitives. It was heaven I lost weight(222)”. This tells us how Lamott discovered of how easy it