This is such a toxic narrative I’m trying really hard to explain to them that I was really sick and I’m still recovering and trying to develop a healthy relationship with food and my body
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I’m sitting in the bar at work and explaining to everyone how I have an eating disorder and my stomach is very small from years of starving myself and working out until I felt like I was going to die; and then everyone starts saying “oh my god I wish I had one I wanna be skinny”
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Everyone is kinda just blowing me off and saying being skinny is great and they wish they could be as thin as I am. I sort of understand it; I’m working with women in their late 30’s-mid 50’s. They’re from a different time. The one woman explained to me that being thin is-
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-everything to her. She wants nothing more than to be skinny. And I really hate the rhetoric that skinny is the only way to be beautiful. Kinda wanted to out and say “I wasn’t beautiful when I weighed 73lbs and my hair was falling out”
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