SJ Longthorne

“The stress hormone cortisol—the one evolution designed to kick in when you’re being chased by a tiger or, it turns out, rejected for your looks—increases appetite, reduces the will to exercise and even improves the taste of food.” https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/everything-you-know-about-obesity-is-wrong …

This middle finger goes up to the boy in school who went around all the girls — but not the boys — and measured their waists one by one with his hands, pronouncing them acceptable or otherwise. My friend was a healthy kid. He called her “chunky”, and later she’d throw up.

I’ve never been medically overweight, but that hasn’t stopped people telling me they think I am, by their standard. Not once has this encouraged a healthy lifestyle; the formidable urge is to get rid of the weight as fast as possible so the comments end as fast as possible.