I am looking for an analogy. I am trying to convey the message that if you have disordered eating and you are trying to fix it with weight loss, it's like....and here I am lost with an analogy that will help people understand that weight loss isn't the right tool in this case.
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Backing the wrong horse, barking up the wrong tree ... I'm sure there must be duplicate threads. – Edwin Ashworth Jan 10 '21 at 16:20
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2Does this answer your question? An idiom meaning someone's doing something useless and has no result at the end ('like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic', 'like trying to plait fog', 'like shooting at the sun', 'like putting the kettle in the fridge', 'like peeing on a forest fire' ...) – Edwin Ashworth Jan 10 '21 at 16:23
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Is this like the XY problem? – Michael Harvey Jan 10 '21 at 16:51
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...if you have an eating disorder, not "disordered eating". – Cascabel_StandWithUkraine_ Jan 10 '21 at 19:16
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thanks so much this is great. Thanks all for your help. – Orit Tsaban Jan 10 '21 at 23:35