My apologies if I took your original comment the wrong way. Being that its something very at the root of so many of my issues, I'm overly-sensitive about it.

I, too, have a warped relationship with food. I guess I have a loose definition of the word "relationship", because I feel like I have a relationship with anything that I interact with regularly. So, I believe that having a relationship with food doesn't have to be a bad thing. Unfortunately, I've had a terrible, abusive, shallow relationship with food for years.

For years, I have looked to food to solve my problems. I thought it would make me feel happy when I was sad, satisfied when I was restless, entertained when I was bored. But that's not very realistic... I wouldn't expect a living, breathing friend to do those things for me. In turn, food has only made me feel more miserable and unsatisfied than ever before. It's a wily creature!

But, I believe that it is possible to put food back in its proper place! I can enjoy food for exactly what it is: sustenance. It isn't there to make me feel better or solve my problems. It's just there to provide nourishment, and nothing more. And then food and I can have a nice, healthy, not-messed-up, balanced relationship with each other.

I think (hope) that I will always have a relationship with food- I'm just working towards a HEALTHY relationship with food!I never want food, for me, to be only fuel or nourishment, because it is such a source of pleasure in my life. I am trying to think of eating a great meal as the equivalent of taking a long, hot shower with my favorite shower gel- it feels wonderful, I can pamper myself and enjoy it, but when I'm clean, I get out of the shower with no (or little) regret! When I'm eating, I want to truly enjoy it- life is too short for anything else. But when I'm not hungry anymore, I want to "step out of the shower", be hapily finished with my meal, and be looking towards another activity. At least, that's the ideal goal !