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first draft of an essay I needed to write in order to emotionally compose for a paper I’m attempting…
Not too long ago I “came out” about my eating disorder. Like so many others my age, my eating disorder has for a long time been anything but glamorous. I certainly wasn’t the stick thin models [...]
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One of the fantastic things about blogging is the practice we get in dialogue. Standing up for our opinions, seeing others, and conversing accordingly. Last year I had a fantastic professor who focused on taking on the rhetoric of white america, trying and failing, to deal with racism. It was tough, because it made us [...]
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About a year ago. For years, I had swung between really caring that I couldn’t break my nasty, ugly habit (old words I used to describe my nails) and occasionally ceasing to notice, and thus ceasing to bite. I came up with theories about WHEN and WHY I would bite them, the traditional stuff about being stressed, [...]
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I went to a really nice dinner tonight with a group of people I really really like. They are all sweet, kind, and generally would say that they care about me, and one another. However, this is also a group of people who believe in diets. As in, at least 20 minutes of the conversation [...]
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As a college student, I’ve generally shunned this whole coveted “internship” thing. I am white and privileged so I could get one pretty easily, but damn, my time is worth… oh yes….MONEY, thank you- not to mention who gets served by rules that reward kids being able to take on free labor during their summers [...]
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So I’m working on this paper for school, actually I’ll call it a project because that seems less daunting and academic. From my first run in’s with all this body image stuff, lots of things have held tension for me. Eating, hunger and weight loss are particularly (obviously) hot spots. After a couple years of dealing with [...]
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I was at the dog park on Saturday, which was amazing. Going to the dog park just puts me in a great mood, everyone is happy, the dogs are happy, you’re outside, life doesn’t get much better. And then, its struck me that there were so many different types of dogs, which meant that people [...]
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1) your success is measured ULTIMATELY by a number, by a size, by how you look. When weight is your primary goal, how you feel will be in second place
2) you believe that becoming smaller, more compact, less, will make you happier MORE than you believe listening to your body will. And being smaller will [...]
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One of my best friends growing up was probably classified as “morbidly obese” by the BMI. I loved horses, and obsessed about them, but having 3 younger siblings, getting out to horse country from our city home was not something my parents put at the top of their priority list. So I spent many hours [...]
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That’s my thought for the day… I’m going to try eating and telling myself— this has nothing to do with what size you are. This is just eating. And, I think it really might be true. Because if thin people don’t eat more than fat people, if some people eat chocolate for breakfast, if the [...]
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