This is just disordered eating.

Like every #thinspo or #paleo or #keto thing.

Talking about it - giving the thing credence - is normalizing it. Can we stop? This isn’t a “secret”, it isn’t “health”, it’s just another form of disordered eating and it’s harmful.

Signed,

I completely agree. I have anxiety disorder and creating too much stress or rules around food takes a toll on my mental health. I now refuse to view foods as good or bad and instead just try to have a lot of variety in what I eat. I also refuse to feel bad about eating or not eating something. It took me a long time…

The carnivore diet always seemed like low-carb at the most extreme. I’m one of those people who needs meat to be healthy (was recommended by my doctors because of low iron), BUT, it’s not MY ENTIRE DIET! I’m fully aware that we need other things to live healthily, like fiber and vitamins that come from  vegetables. I…

Patients with higher BMIs are often praised by their doctors for behaviors that in thinner patients would prompt a disorder diagnosis. The separation of anorexia nervosa and atypical anorexia nervosa in diagnostic literature makes no sense given both are behavioral disorders and actively prevents patients from getting…

BMI is entirely useless as a medical condition diagnostic parameter, FIGHT ME.

I am old enough to remember when the BMI was introduced and considered revolutionary since it wasn’t just about height/weight. I eagerly consulted the chart only to see that it was predicated on..... height/weight. Plus ça change.....

Like Greene herself, Crossfit sucks ass.

100%, I just about screamed at the screen when they brought the Britney’s Gram podcast creators on like they are reputable sources of information. And the paparazzo whose vehicle was damaged by the umbrella incident (after he harassed her endlessly). The whole documentary was just... speculation and fluff. It was…

Every time I look at the comments on her posts, I'm annoyed. All of these people who supposedly care about her so much, constantly feeding into this weird conspiracy while invalidating everything she says if it's not in line with their dumbass theory. 

The Free Britney movement is a conspiracy theory, full stop. There’s probably something very wrong with her conservatorship. The media was awful to her during her peak years of fame and she deserves an apology, particularly when it comes to the coverage of her mental health. It contains a kernel of truth. But the way…

Ex-junkie here-19 years sober. I’ll say the same thing here that I said on the NYT review of his book: this guy is most likely a junky and doesn’t know it, and the really sad part is that he’s getting paid to be a junky researcher and book-writer, which means he is going to keep doing drugs until it kills him. I don’t…

Here’s a side-by-side that shows how bad her ersatz performance was.

I would like to add that she started focusing on sobriety after her miscarriage, and that she is probably feeling different about life. I have been on that same journey and can confirm that I was able to endure a ton of BS pre-sobriety. I probably even reveled in online fights with trolls. Now, I don’t have the…

Financial aspects for example, and the family situation as well, then you have her health.

With letters like this, I wonder if the LW is looking for other people to voice the things she’s scared to admit to herself. She knows he’s a controlling asshole, she just needs to hear it from other people. I hope she drops his ass and starts living her best life. 

The craziest part is that girls and women are constantly bombarded with fat-phobic messaging every fucking day of their lives, so it’s entirely unnecessary to add to that even if you believe that bullshit.

Lol omg. I could never with this dude. What is the point to being married if you get married to bad people?

Because, against all reason, women like the LW keep fucking them. 

My father is openly fat-phobic. All three of his daughters either have or had disordered eating or a full blown eating disorder. His fat-phobia wasn’t the only reason, but it did make clear the one thing I should learn to ‘control’ in order to have any worth.

This person never explains why they love their husband, only that they do. And the closest thing to a positive trait the husband has is that they are “active.” I wonder why they are married? I am having a hard time believing that this is the only thing their husband is a dick about. I love Brandy’s answer in that…