I had this experience too. It sucks to get over the purging and get back in the gym and realize I’m still nowhere out of the woods because purging is only part of bulimia. I truly to enjoy fitness but as someone said above, I also want the rewards of losing weight, so after 7 months back in the gym there are days when…

Yeah, this is one of the hardest thing about trying to recover and the hardest thing to try to get across to people who don’t understand. I know a lot of people mean well, but it can be frustrating to constantly hear peoples suggestions to ‘just eat this way, and do these exercises’ as if you just learned to do things…

You are making a ton of sense. Image does not always represent health. There are legit reasons why losing weight may be necessary but there are plenty of other occasions where chasing a number may get you into trouble mentally and physically.

As yourself why you’re doing it. Is it for health reasons? Is it because exercise makes you happy? Is it because you want to be physically stronger? Is it because you want to be more active in general?

That does not surprise me. I forget who it was- Joan Collins, according to teh Google- said beauty is like being born rich and getting poorer. I can only imagine the fear and pressure. Hell, I chose to get braces at age 16 because I was ashamed of my teeth, which were slightly crooked.

I remember a makeup artist…

I don’t think the author is saying this is a good thing or how it should be, but it’s most definitely how it is. A woman’s body, in this current society, IS everybody’s business. Men will message her on a dating app to comment on it. Family members will bring it up in discussion. People will say things on the street…

I don’t know. As someone who never dieted, I just have a polciy of not eating when I’m not hungry and if I’m craving something eating something with that in it. But for a lot of people it’s less simple than that (also according to one doctor I may be better than most at distinguishing hunger and thirst, apparently…

I realized recently that I DO NOT KNOW how to think about my body or my weight or fitness. I joined Beachbody because I was still hanging on to seasonal depression in fucking July and thought some physical movement might help me get out of the rut. It did! My goal was better mental health and I met it and will…

Yeah the “I stopped drinking soda and started walking for five minutes a day and lost 15lbs!” dude, who thinks that weight loss works the same for everybody is my favorite.

Ugh. I hate pieces like this. They almost always get people arguing. I think it needs to come down to TO EACH THEIR OWN! Bodies are different and people’s relationships with their bodies are different, and only each person knows what is good with them, or not. Personally, I was getting overweight. I was tired most of…

Yeah, I just started the “intuitive eating” path and I’m finding that a) diet culture is hard, if not impossible to unlearn, and b) trying to figure out wtf your body is telling you after ignoring its signals for 10, 20, 30 years is also really freaking hard :(

Yup- choices- like fake tans, bad hairdos, and clothes (for rich people, not regulars) are totally open to criticism in my mind. Bodies? NOPE!

I’ve been up and down in weight my entire adult life. Right now I’m definitely up, and this is the first time that I’ve felt like my extra 30 pounds is a walking advertisement for how lazy and unorganized I am. I am a professional woman with a teenage daughter. I hold a leadership position with a large volunteer…

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A lot of the complementary medical treatments (that’s the proper term for these non-evidence based treatments that are meant to be combined with evidence-based medicine) do have a placebo effect, but acupuncture also has additional, if short-lived, physical benefits. Not that the placebo effect is not a good thing. It…

I’ve been on weight watchers a few times over the past five years and am currently on it now. I’ll admit that I do weight watchers to lose weight and fit back into all of the clothes in my closet.

I’d say I agree, except I think it goes far beyond eating. Wellness, to me, is disordered self-care. It’s not just about what you eat. Wellness wants to tell you about the vitamins you’re supposedly missing or the way you’re stressing out or even what you wear (I’m thinking of those BS magic necklaces that supposedly…

Personally, thinking of eating better and exercising as “taking care of myself” instead of dieting and working on becoming smaller has helped me become so much happier and healthier. Thinking about a diet always made me think that I should eat less, weigh less, show some ribs. Now, I think about eating things that…

I remember reading an article back in the 1980s, when Jane Fonda’s workout videos were all the rage (I had two of them!), in which a nutritionist pointed out that Jane Fonda looked like that because her genes made her look like that. It was very depressing to a plump 15-year-old, who desperately wanted to look like…

Yes she is definitely caking off of this. But also, I do think even though there are monetary/corporate interests in it (and that’s no doubt why Taffy got the interview), she still has a unique perspective as the person whose weight has been the most scrutinized of anyone I can think of in the modern era!