Oh, and another thing, if we’re going to stick to superficial motivations — after around 35, it just isn’t cute to try to be super skinny. You can’t get away with that shit the way you did at 16 or 25 or even 30. Your body might look OK but your face — won’t.

I just want to shake some of these people and say, “You are alive in this beautiful body of yours NOW! Right NOW! You will have this beautiful body to do things with, enjoy and embrace for a VERY short amount of time. If you are healthy, you are LUCKY. If your body accepts food and uses it to give you the energy to…

And I’m an Old, so.... I made the cardinal mistake of asking what Keo Diet was, and when they described it to me, I said “Oh! So it’s just Atkins again! I remember my sister doing that 25 years ago. She gained it all back.” :D

I think Ishamael is correctly pointing out, though, that there’s a difference in both kind and degree when it comes to the pressures that men and women face. When women try to talk about the incredible pressure to be thin and beautiful, and how that ties into our culture’s sexism, a lot of men try to dismiss that by…

I think it would be a very different film with an actress who isn’t conventionally/Hollywood beautiful or even pretty. Like a character actor, not an actress widely accepted as beautiful.

I heard my mother comment about her diets and how fat she was. She never looked fat to me.

Now I look fat to me.

While I eat, and am I guess a healthy weight, I don’t consider myself fully recovered. I cycle. I’ll eat everything for a week, and then stick to a nutrigrain bar and a handful of popcorn the next.

I don’t…

I just want to say, not all eating disorders are about losing weight. I’m almost 95% certain I have a type of eating disorder called ARFID (Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder). I’m autistic (which ARFID is often comorbid with) and I have massive sensory processing issues. Basically, I never grew out of picky…

I loathe all moral implications/judgements surrounding food, but the term “clean eating” makes me seethe with rage.

I’d like to watch some well-made documentaries on the topic, I think. I’m wary of being triggered as well, as I’ve struggled with the impulse to temper my diet and exercise excessively for more than half of my life now. I would really like to see some documentaries though because they often present issues with a sort…

I was at a similar workplace for 7 years, but the comments were usually directed at me for being on the leaner side. When I knew I was moving onto a new job and city in about 6 months, I started to reply to those comments because I wouldn’t have to deal with the long term gossip that could have resulted. “OMG…

Yes. To all of this.

Even the title “To the Bone” makes me nostalgic for bones that are less prominent these days. Wanna not watch the movie together? We can just eat popcorn? Ha ha?

Eating disorders are seductive. Any movie that wants to deal with the reality of an ED is going to glamorize them de facto because the warped perception is that they are glamorous. We can say that only the sufferer thinks it’s glamorous, but the popularity of Kate Moss’s, “Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels” as…

There’s a woman in my office in her late 60s, happily married for forever, and totally normal in appearance for her height and age, who in incapable of engaging in any conversation without directing it back to the good and bad foods she eats and justifying her cinnamon raisin half bagel in the morning. I try to kindly…

A bad break up in college lead to me eating about 300 calories a day and walking everywhere, literally everywhere, places that were too far/too dangerous for walking, places I didn’t even need to go, etc. I am eating a “normal” amount of food now(I’m eating sesame sticks as I type because they are tasty, and I’m…

This is kind of why I like that muscle on women has become so trendy. Don’t get me wrong, thinspo is a whole world of fuckery and by no means real life for the most part, but at least if you can find a lot of “What I can do” instead of “look how thin I am” that people value as well.

Great article!

Oh God, when I started my ED behaviors and everyone complimented me on being so thin, that’s when I really fell down the rabbit hole. I thought people wouldn’t like me anymore if I gained weight, because they’d see me as a failure, because we’re taught that thin=willpower and fat=lazy. I’m in recovery now and still…

I think it’s hard because people do value thinness. I was hospitalized with an eating disorder 20 years ago and people still told me how great I looked. I stopped getting my period and had hair growing all over me, I couldn’t sit in a chair without pain, but people still told me they were jealous about how I had the…

This is similar to the incredible difficulty in reporting suicides, especially teen suicides - merely the reporting on it will likely create copycats, no matter how you present it, especially locally.