Diet Talk and Food Policing.
Jan. 1st, 2011 07:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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"After all of this, I was probably the thinnest I’d been in years*, and exhausted. I couldn’t walk more than half a block without stopping to catch my breath. And people noticed the weight loss, but not the rest of it. I was repeatedly congratulated for effort and willpower, until one day I exploded all over someone at work:
“Oh, yes! It’s been great! Being unable or afraid to eat for months, losing my hair, not being able to do the grocery shopping without leaning on the cart to stay standing, and let me tell you about shitting my guts out several times a day. Yes, I am a veritable TOWER of willpower! The fact that I haven’t killed myself is the true victory. Fuck weight loss!”
Go check it out.
"After all of this, I was probably the thinnest I’d been in years*, and exhausted. I couldn’t walk more than half a block without stopping to catch my breath. And people noticed the weight loss, but not the rest of it. I was repeatedly congratulated for effort and willpower, until one day I exploded all over someone at work:
“Oh, yes! It’s been great! Being unable or afraid to eat for months, losing my hair, not being able to do the grocery shopping without leaning on the cart to stay standing, and let me tell you about shitting my guts out several times a day. Yes, I am a veritable TOWER of willpower! The fact that I haven’t killed myself is the true victory. Fuck weight loss!”
Go check it out.
