Girl Growing Small
October 2011
September 2011
Yeah, I totally don't think any ED makes someone strong or superior, I just think that's probably a way of thinking about it for the people who put anorexia on a pedestal.
Of course. Was just kind of reflecting.
I think people find eating disorders, especially anorexia, to involve a high degree of willpower and self control. Overeating is out of control to them and therefore inferior. As someone who was an overeater for most of my life and still deals with binging, I know that immediately after a relapse I feel weak. It's always the first feeling. Then failure and guilt because I lost control.
While it’s true that the opposite ends of the ED spectrum are effectively opposite levels of control, being a slave to calories and your physical appearance is also weakness. I think it’s just a lot harder for people to see their oppression when they’re following orders, so to speak. Much like the Occupy Wall Street movement. There are those who never had control who can see it right away, then there are those who have always done as they’re told and are only starting to see, “Wait a second, something isn’t right here.” Sorry, don’t mean to get political. Just the first analogy that came to mind.
I agree with your perspective, is the point.
as far as I'm concerned, there are 3 types of girls who relate to EDs. a) those that suffer from one, but realize it's bad and advise everyone to stay away from it, b) those that suffer from one but are not able to recognize how awful they are and encourage it (i do understand, many ed's mess up people's hormones and chemical balance) and c) those gigantic idiots that are obviously not suffering from EDs but that would advise someone to get one because they think fat people are disgusting.
The 3rd is the only kind I have trouble speaking to. I think that feeling “fat people are disgusting” is really an outward projection of one’s own fears of aesthetic inadequacy, guided by a general societal notion against the heavyset among us.
But that’s just me.
I know for me its that i'm too scared to ask for help. It's not just eat and were cured. It's all mental. Fixing it is a lot more complicated then it seems. Most people aren't proud of it, just because they say they have it. Even if you have an eating disorder you usually don't like pro-ana/mia blogs.
Thank you for your candid perspective. A dear friend of mine is overweight and ana, and I do everything I can to be supportive to help her stay away from the dangers of starvation… but she always gets pulled back into pro-ana sites. It makes me so sad to see her pining for something so unhealthy.
I know what it’s like to be on the other end of the ED spectrum. None of it is easy. Most of the time, I’m not even sure what any of us can do to fight it other than be supportive. It’s very much a state-of-mind issue, but getting to that state of mind, as you put it, is more complicated than one would think. <3
P.S. I will always be here for you and anyone who ever wants to ask for help. I will never judge you.
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Muscle weighs more than fat.
Fiction!
If you place one pound of muscle on a scale and one pound of fat on a scale, they will both weigh one pound. For example a pound of rocks weighs the same as a pound of feathers. The difference is in the total volume! Muscle is about 25% 33% more dense…
I hate when people try to get preachy about this. The point is that if VOLUME were equivalent, muscle would weigh more. The picture alone proves this. It is to say that you can be smaller but have a higher weight based on how much muscle you have gained verses fat lost.
tomorrow is a new month, a fresh start, reblog if you want to lose at least 7 pounds!
I added a space between “at least,” but yes, I’d like to lose 7lbs. Looking forward to my new diet for sugar addicts, soon as those books arrive.
Why are some girls/ladies proud of their eating disorders?
I don’t mean to offend anyone at all with this, but I’d really like to know. And feel free to anon message me your reply. But I noticed it’s mostly among anorexic young women. Overeaters tend to hide it, but I see so many blogs along the lines of “anorexic and proud” or just outright stating the words “eating disorder,” and it’s always a form of under-eating. How can you accept that that’s what you have without being on a search for a cure? Rather, they search to exacerbate their disorder. Please explain? I don’t follow.
You should never be ashamed of who you are, but I would think that if you are accepting of the label “disorder” you would want to fix whatever the disorder is…. I’m confuzzeled.
