Doctors, Diet Pills, and Fear of Food: The Teenage Years
In yesterday's post, I wrote about how constant messages tying body size to worth had seeped into my mind by the ripe old age of three or four years old, and how food became something that I punished myself with. In honor of #NEDAwareness, I'm continuing this blog series by diving into how my eating disorder evolved as a teenager into a pattern of restriction and, eventually, doing whatever it took to lose weight. Growing up in my household, it wasn't unusual to hear a family
Starting Young: The Birth of My Eating Disorder
In honor of National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, I'm going to share a different personal experience every day to show how my own eating disorder developed, progressed, and was eventually defeated. It's important to me on many levels and for different reasons, but the main one is that plus-sized people are typically stereotyped as having a binge eating disorder, and restrictive eating disorders are mistakenly thought by many to be something only thin people can have. The
