A friend of mine expressed utter and complete fear of allowing herself to eat without self-imposed food restrictions. She’s afraid she would eat the entire State of New York if left to her own devices.  I remember that feeling. The funny thing is that it’s not true.  It’s just an irrational fear.  It didn’t happen.  Sure, I tried for a little while but it didn’t work that way.  You can’t eat as much as you think you can. The fear of eating too much is a weird counter-balance to the No Fear of restricting food.  We really do a number on ourselves when we restrict and diet.  It saddles us with crazy, irrational fears of eating.  So unnatural.