A Journey Out of Anorexia on this edition of Truth in Love.

I'm Heath Lambert and you're listening to Truth in Love, a podcast of the Association

of Certified Biblical Counselors, where we seek to provide biblical solutions to the problems that people face.

Anorexia is a deadly problem, with some studies indicating that as many as 10% of people who struggle with it will lose their lives.

This is a very significant issue that Christians must know how to respond to, and to help us think about it,

I have asked Rebecca McAtansky to join us on the podcast today. Rebecca is a graduate of the

biblical counseling program at Boyce College, and she serves the Association of Certified

Biblical Counselors at our headquarters here in Louisville. Rebecca, as a young girl, struggled with the problem

of anorexia. And Rebecca, I would like for you to share with our listeners what your struggle

looked like. Yeah, I began in eighth grade when I wanted to lose weight and I wanted to lose weight

because there was a particular girl on a television show that I wanted to

look like and I saw her and I determined in my heart I wanted to be her size by ninth grade.

So I started dieting and exercising toward that end and I began to lose weight. But what happened to me

was I kept lowering my weight goal

and the target kept shifting. My methods became more drastic to achieve that goal. I went from dieting

and exercising, which are good things, to bad things like not eating enough food and spitting out food after tasting it so as not to swallow

it. And I began exercising on top of exercising and going to bed hungry so that I would wake up

with a smaller waistline in the morning. And so that's what my struggle began to look like.

One of the most seriously concerning realities about anorexia is that the person with the struggle

does not perceive that they have a struggle at all.

They think the struggle is with the family members and friends who are talking to them.

So it can be very challenging to get the

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