When I was fully entrenched in the "dysfunctional dieting mentality",
I remember revering the occurrence of weight loss, no matter what the
circumstances surrounding it happened to be. For example, I had the flu
one time. I was sick for about four days. But, guess what? THE
NUMBER ON THE SCALE WENT DOWN. I actually welcomed the sickness because
it made me lighter. It was worth puking my guts out because WEIGHT
LOSS.
Imagine that?
I ran into someone over the weekend that
I haven't seen in a while. I immediately noticed she looked smaller,
but kept that to myself because I've been working on not commenting on
people's appearance. After a while, she called attention to it by
saying that she lost 30 lbs. I told her that I thought she was
beautiful at any size and my only question was, "Are you OK?" She
replied that it was family stress that caused the weight loss. (In
addition, she also has an auto immune disease.)
Do you see anything at all wrong with these two scenarios that I described?
We would rather be SICK and STRESSED if it means we can be SKINNY.
That is not healthy. That is DISORDERED. That is the caustic effect of
our culture relentlessly bombarding us with images and messages about
our bodies being unacceptable.
Our bodies are not unacceptable.
We are not unacceptable.
But the pressure to be someone that we are
not and the idea that weight loss is healthy no matter the method is.
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