"Food is the enemy; if I let myself enjoy it, I'll lose all control."
How it sounds in your head: If I have one cookie, I'll eat the whole box. If I stop restricting, I'll gain a hundred pounds. Food is dangerous. Enjoyment is the gateway to disaster. I can't trust myself around food.
"For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be refused if it is received with thanksgiving."
-- 1 Timothy 4:4Diet culture's demonization of food combined with control trauma, enforced by spirits of fear.
She HAS binged after restricting. The all-or-nothing pattern is real. Her body DOES feel out of control when she's been starving it and finally gets food.
Peter called certain foods 'unclean' and refused to eat them based on religious rules. God showed him a vision THREE TIMES saying, 'What GOD has cleansed you must not call common.' God had to override Peter's food fear with direct revelation.
I REFUSE the lie that food is the enemy. IT IS WRITTEN that every creature of God is GOOD and nothing is to be refused when received with thanksgiving. God didn't create cookies to destroy me - He created taste buds to ENJOY His provision. IT IS WRITTEN that to eat and drink and enjoy is the GIFT of God. I don't have to fear food or control it like a dangerous weapon. I am a branch connected to the Vine - fruit comes naturally when I abide. Control is a LIE. Trust is the TRUTH.
Right now, your Father is setting a table before you with good things and saying, 'Eat, daughter. I made this FOR you, not AGAINST you. Receive it with joy, not fear. You can trust Me, and you can trust the body I gave you.'