We’re expecting 50,000 people in Seattle. :)

This. I suffered from a serious ED for 10 years (recovered now - yay!) and I maintained my lowest weight by eating 300 calories every 2 days, plus workouts. When I entered treatment, I gained 15 lbs in a month by increasing my intake to 600 calories per day, indicating my body was truly in “starvation mode”. While…

I...I just don’t understand this. You’re in the shower or bath, you’re washing everything else, why wouldn’t you wash your legs and feet? My arms don’t visibly have dirt on them - but I wash them. WHY WOULDN’T YOU WASH A LARGE PORTION OF YOUR BODY? Does not compute. Someone bring me my smelling salts...

The Cascade Curtain is pretty intense in WA state. I don’t think Eastern WA will be joining us... *source: living there for 4 years during college, then making it safely back to Seattle.

I’m 33, and this is me too. The first news story I vividly remember purposefully watching and understanding was the OJ chase. I was about 11. I watched the chase and the trial coverage.

This. I’ve never had to deal with substance abuse, but an eating disorder carries a lot of the same characteristics. CBT, group and 1:1 with a therapist and a psychiatrist helped me achieve what a lot of people haven’t: recovery. Sure, I think about my eating disorder every day, but I was able to find an identity…