Ah, "go eat a burger" has always been a favorite among people who think they can use my body size to bully me. Literally once a complete stranger (a man, of course) stopped me on the street and was like "let me buy you a sandwich, you look hungry". EYEROLL + LINE FACE.

Yeah, the more it gets drilled into my head, the more my actual anxiety makes me think about it. Like, please just let me over-worry about if my shoes match my outfit and about not being hit by a car at every single intersection, and all the other ridiculous things I have anxiety about.

Actually I think my GERD, lactose intolerance and food allergies definitely contributed to my diet (ie lifestyle of eating, not weight related) going off the tracks. When your esophagus is so torn up that you can't properly swallow, you start just eating what you can. :|

No, more like straight up, with no history of my eating habits, saying I should contact the Renfrew Center or other ED clinics, or straight up asking me if I made myself purge after eating (which, no, I never have, being ill makes me anxious). One of them refused to see me again until I did because I mentioned to them…

Haha, exactly, they definitely would have!

Ha, oh yes, if only all the women I've met that have suffered with disordered eating behaviors had just said "NO!" and saved themselves from being all gross and boney and ewwwww. Fuck these ads.

What's weird is I know a lot of designers that don't draw their sketches with extremely elongated proportions, I've seen almost chibi-style drawings done because that was the particular aesthetic of the designer (or design student, as it often was). Generally I've understood fashion sketches as a way of showing off an…

Gastro-esophageal reflux disease, people sometimes mistakenly call it heartburn. Basically my esophageal sphincter is damaged and cannot properly prevent stomach acid from splashing back up, especially if I eat high fat foods which relax that muscle. It got really bad over the summer, my esophagus was so torn up that…

My thought as well! The constant inundation of bad diet and health and psych advice leaves us all with a mixed bag of accurate and inaccurate information, which does a huge disservice to those of us just trying to stay healthy and avoid the paranoia that we must be doing -something- wrong when it comes to eating.

I used to have a major sweet tooth, but have since lost it, which I attribute partially to GERD and partially to spending a year with someone who eats like a bird. Currently I am eating to fuel my training and toning, and finding ways around my various necessary dietary restrictions has been an adventure.

Haha! I wish it had been shrimps instead!

Hah, well that actually is accurate medically, so the Phil-ster got that one right. I tend to look towards my known comfort foods when I'm feeling down, mostly because cooking seems like too much of an effort, but I never feel particularly good afterwards anyway (bloating, sleepy, etc).

Yikes! First off, I'm sorry that you also have had to deal with this. Secondly, I understand exactly how it feels to tell people again and again that no, I am not starving myself and never having them believe you. In my case, I've always been crazy thin and people automatically assume that because I am think I MUST…

Yeah, I never have really understood what a "healthy" relationship with food is, everything seems to be unhealthy in some way. Like when I order take out because I'm not feeling my best: is it good that I'm comfortable eating what I want or am I attaching emotions to food which is bad?

Ha, I don't even use Dove! I think it's overpriced! Honestly, I hate the residue de-od leaves on my body, it's such a bitch to scrub off even with soap! I like Tom's for that reason, and because "unscented" really means unscented with them.

This is abhorrent. On a related note, I never had an unhealthy relationship with food until a few shrinks badgered me about it, and I developed anxiety about my eating behaviors. Has anyone had experience with this before? I was never a particularly healthy eater, I mean, I was a teenager, but having shrinks drill me…

I will not be lotioning my pits before I put deodorant (which I also wouldn't bother with if I didn't sweat from anxiety) on, no thanks. I guess all my sexy-time friends will just have to avert their eyes from that unsightly part of my body!

It's embarrassing. I've had so many friends/family members ask me about it because I have an anthropology background (until ethnography pays the bills I'm working as a fashion model, though) and it just seems so blatantly obvious. All foods were not geographically available to all societies, so there is no one size…

I agree with you, that's why I was so bad at it! I usually just cook roughly the amount my body is hungry for, I don't measure things very often (though I do eat super healthy). I prefer to just grab a bunch of veggies and some rice and whip it up with some form of protein. Ba-da-boom. Healthy meal.

Paleo isn't even anthropologically accurate! In 2013 the species of plants and animals we ingest are very, very dissimilar to the types of food humans would have eaten 10,000 years ago. Not to mention, not all hunter-gatherer societies lived in the same regions of the world, so there was no one size fits all diet they…