In a culture so utterly obsessed with dieting and the mind-controlling falsehood that quick-and-easy weight-loss is a matter of self-control and will power, restrictive eating disorders are revered as miracles, their partakers lifted to the status of sainthood.
The constant refrain of "why don't you eat less and exercise more", and the pernicious notion that this is all a matter of self-control versus weakness, deny the complex emotional and psychological build up that happens with some people's relationship to food.
"Nobility" is a matter of self-control, and the precarious happiness that such love affords has no ideal dimension.
The resistance to change is frequently framed as a matter of "self-control," and it has been suggested that multiple "selves" or cognitive modules exist 5 each vying for control over our eating behavior.
It's a matter of self preservation.
Bush's fanatical insistence on punctuality and his ever more exacting physical-fitness routines seem less a matter of self-discipline than of self-control, which is something different and more desperate.
Mental control over her ability became a matter of self-preservation and she amassed a large library of books on ESP.
It's a matter of self-confidence".
It's not just a matter of self-doubt.
It is also a matter of self-interest.
They are – clearly, it's a matter of self-defense.
