/u/EpicKillTime

Created: Wed Nov 7 07:03:25 2018

ID: e984zbj

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Diseases of affluence.

/u/PM_ME_BrusselSprouts [5'3" | CW: 165 | BMI: 30.0 | 33, F]

Created: Mon Sep 3 09:45:28 2018

ID: e5boh71

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Old post but man you took the words right out of my mouth. Another big problem I have is that I don't like sweets, and even though I'm borderline obese, people will try to force me to eat them. Coworkers, extended family and friends will all be like, oh just have one cookie or one bite. Meanwhile I'm judged harshly for drinking, which I would understand IF they had their sugar addictions under control. I'm sorry I like drinking my sugar in the form of alcohol because at least it gets me drunk!



So much of what you said needs to be screamed from the rooftops. I honestly think we're more 'normal' on this sub than 75% of people I meet IRL.

/u/richnskinny [5’8 | F]

Created: Thu Jun 21 18:48:18 2018

ID: e12zci9

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Lmfao Thank you. I think this all the time, that our society’s relationship with food is so wrong and unhealthy. TBH, it’s all about business and money. They know that the fast food industry brings in a lot of money. even the meat industry. They Care more about money then our wellbeing.



Food is literally a drug.

People think they will die without their fats sugars and fried carbs. When in reality the are just addicted to the HIGH of it!!!! Food is actually meant to Fuel you for activities! Not to entertain you while you sit and watch Netflix



This also reminded of the time this (literally obese) girl offered me her Reese’s cup and when I said no, she said “Why not? You need to relax, No one will know” ... lol what? You are morbidly obese but you think i’m the one with a problem for not eating junk. I said “lol no I’m just vegan and that has milk chocolate” and she’s like “oh ok maybe they sell vegan Reese’s somewhere” LOL girl I don’t want those either

/u/blingbitch66

Created: Thu Jun 21 18:24:05 2018

ID: e12xv35

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Lmfao soooo true!!! Thank you. I think this all the time, that our society’s relationship with food is so wrong and unhealthy. TBH, it’s all about business and money. They know that the fast food industry brings in a lot of business and money. even the meat industry. They Care more about money then our wellbeing.



Food is literally a drug.

People think they will die without their fats sugars and carbs. When in reality the are just addicted to the HIGH of it!!!! Food is actually meant to Fuel you for activities!



This also reminded of the time this (literally obese) girl offered me her Reese’s cup and when I said no, she said “Why not? You need to relax, No one will know” ... lol what? You are morbidly obese but you think i’m the one with a problem for not eating that junk. I said “lol no I’m just vegan and that has milk chocolate” and she’s like “oh ok maybe they sell vegan Reese’s somewhere” LOL girl I don’t want those either

/u/labratte1996 [163 cm,CW Too Big| Binge Free Days: 4. | HW 65 kg | GW/LW 49 kg]

Created: Sun Jun 10 18:23:03 2018

ID: e0gjmwc

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I gained a good bit of weight in _Canada_ ( not even the US). The thing that struck me for those measly three weeks I was there is how commonplace fast food is.



They were selling fries, milkshakes , chicken strips, burgers, etc. in a department store??? The "normal" fries was about twice the portions we get in my country (think a little over two fists). It suddenly made sense to me why my cousin called the portion of chicken roti they served her when she visited us, "not worth the money".



I don't know how you North Americans restrict with so much temptation all around- my fat ass can't even be truly vegan because my mother splurged and bought a bag $25 of shrimp to try something new. At the same time I'm jealous because you guys have a wider variety of healthy options for cheaper prices.





/u/raspberry_coffee [5'5"💤99 lbs☕️16.5🌸f]

Created: Sun Jun 10 15:53:56 2018

ID: e0gbfkz

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Thank you so much for saying this. The obesity rate in America is ridiculous, the thought of 3/4 people being obese is shocking and not shocking at the same time.



I hate people that glamorize cheating on their diets or binging. They get mad at people with EDs and tell us not to glamorize unhealthy food choices. Yes, Becky, there's no problem with eating a whole damn ice cream cake in one sitting but god forbid you eat broccoli.

/u/beryid

Created: Sun Jun 10 14:28:21 2018

ID: e0g69wk

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I really wish people would start acknowledging America's obesity epidemic as the giant eating disorder that it is, for all the reasons that you've listed. Unfortunately it's so far outside the Overton window that I doubt it would get any traction in mainstream society.



The closest we've come so far are sporadic pieces like Supersize Me, which obliquely mentions the psychological issues associated with binge eating, but otherwise lays the blame at the feet of the food industry (which I agree deserves some blame).

/u/coffeeeecatttt

Created: Sun Jun 10 13:43:58 2018

ID: e0g3n8k

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I completely and totally agree and relate so much with this rant. The USA is so ridiculous with it's over-indulgence and giant portions. Everything is too big. Too much. It fuels my ED.

/u/sweettutu64 [5'3 | -51.4 lbs | F]

Created: Sun Jun 10 13:19:39 2018

ID: e0g27py

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I 100% agree with everything you said except the sparkling water thing. I've had an ED for years now and I still can't get over that almost metallic taste haha

/u/cobalt_co_27

Created: Sun Jun 10 13:07:51 2018

ID: e0g1i5z

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Sugar in **everything**. Why does almost all bread have sugar? Why is is difficult to find yogurt without sugar? Tomato sauce? Why is everything so sweet?????



Even if you know a little bit about nutrition it’s a lot more work to source healthy options unless you cook 100% from scratch.

/u/VirtualVacation [152cm | <45kg? | F |🍑: dechets]

Created: Sun Jun 10 12:07:02 2018

ID: e0fxw89

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I don't live in the States anymore, and haven't since I was a young kid, but whenever I visit I am always appalled at the portion sizes and calorie content there. I swear it gets worse each time I visit. When I am with family, they CONSTANTLY talk about food\-\- including me and my body. I'm the smallest in the family, and because of that, they watch what I eat like HAWKS, nothing goes without comments, "oh you're vegetarian now? Is it because you want to diet?" "but it's just bacon!!" "that's ALL you're gonna eat?". They always eat 3 huge meals a day, and eat out so so so much.





I also find it's real hard to find vegetarian options at most smaller restaurants, or even if I ask them to hold the meat, the server is confused or says they can't do that... it's not that hard...

/u/red_ossifrage [5'5" | 99lbs]

Created: Sun Jun 10 18:09:49 2018

ID: e0giy0t

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I live in SoCal so the food culture is different, but even with all the health awareness, emphasis on produce, and high number of vegans/vegetarians here, the amount of meat consumption is just....ridiculous. Like, the people who do eat meat eat it for like every goddamned meal. First of all that is bad for you. Second, it is NOT sustainable, globally speaking.



That's not even getting into the factory farming culture that even allows this level of meat consumption. A hundred or so years from now, I believe we'll look back at factory farming with horror and wonder how a culture could allow themselves to become inured to it.

/u/skinnifat [5'4" | CW: 106 | GW: idk | F]

Created: Sun Jun 10 12:04:12 2018

ID: e0fxq60

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Thank you for posting this!! But now how tf do we fix this shit????

/u/Joyoftheseason

Created: Sun Jun 10 10:37:46 2018

ID: e0fsn0n

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I literally was told by a (obese) girl yesterday “Your a better person than me” looking up and down at my body. It was really uncomfortable 😣 tbh like I used to be as big as her and it brought bad memories and even though, by american standards I’m thin I still am uncomfortable with my BMI and appearance. Like ....

:( :( :( :(



I’d like to not have an eating disorder but rather have a healthy body and be active and such, be away from mirrors the glomorization of VERY bad foods.

/u/brokehungryheathen

Created: Sun Jun 10 08:52:30 2018

ID: e0fmrov

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I am still struggling with my BED. Some days, I do great, eat well, just enough but not too much.



But most days I set myself back days, weeks, months, without even acknowledging it.



I am only 20lbs overweight and "look fine" so no one takes me seriously. I have to be morbidly obese to be seen as having a BED.



I am worried that I will be soon enough. I am scared every day because of my addiction to food.

/u/hamburger_helpher

Created: Sun Jun 10 08:14:39 2018

ID: e0fkvrc

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Ugh thank you for putting into words one of my biggest, daily subconscious gripes.



I found it especially hard to recover in treatment centers when dietitians + nurses + etc were all morbidly obese — I mean -come on-, like it was the anorexia that made me skeptical that they knew what they were doing? Especially when refeeding is so terrifying and a drastic change from our normalcy before going into IP. It made me and still makes me so upset.

/u/Fake-Palindrome [168 | 44.9 | 15.9 | 19 F :karma:]

Created: Sun Jun 10 23:28:23 2018

ID: e0gz18k

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This was actually one of my big (no pun intended?) issues with the inpatient ward I went to \- two of my nurses were morbidly obese, by which I mean one of their arms was the size of my waist. Needless to say I internalised that a lot, and got paranoid that the nutritionist wanted to make me obese. Thankfully the mindset didn't last after I left, so I was significantly less combative in outpatient.

/u/KMH039

Created: Sun Jun 10 07:59:13 2018

ID: e0fk60w

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Listen, y'all want some good "have you heard of mac and cheese tacos" memes? Head on over to r/fatlogic. Before I sort of tumbled into the heavy restricting phase I'm in now, I was one of those people who thought "counting calories is what anorexic people do. I'll never be one of THOSE people." (Lol, jokes on me I guess). But reading those usually helps keep me from slipping back into that mindset and often prevents binges, especially when my roommate eats an entire McDonalds dinner box by himself, then can't figure out why he's not losing weight.

/u/axanax_lattepls [5'4 | CW: 106 | GW: 80]

Created: Sun Jun 10 06:33:13 2018

ID: e0fgpok

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Yes yes yes! I don't feel like I have a normal relationship with food only because of my mom or anything but it's also this country. A lot of Americans simply don't have a good understanding of nutrition, have a healthy relationship with food, etc and it's all affected me.

/u/cinnamonbicycle [Away in recovery (pls send prayers)]

Created: Sun Jun 10 05:13:35 2018

ID: e0fe8yd

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Agreed 100%. This is all so true. It makes me almost feel ashamed to recover- like, being unhealthy is so normalized, and it makes me actually embarrassed to be healthy. I'd rather just stay over here on the other extreme end of the spectrum.

/u/kissing_cyanide

Created: Sun Jun 10 04:52:29 2018

ID: e0fdopm

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Preach. Thank you. Reading this actually just kind of relaxed me as opposed to amp me up, I think because I'm thinking these things but not realizing it. And feel beat the fuck down with my relationship to food itself, eating/ not eating, control... you know, the stuff we all go through. That beat the fuck down feeling makes it hard to articulate things, or even to fully connect thoughts before they are solidified in your own head. So, thank you. I'm sorry if it seems fucked up that you actually relaxed me, but I'm glad I'm not alone in thinking this, and you were able to connect a lot of thoughts I was having.

/u/fuckingupleftnright [5'7" | 117lbs | 18.32 (old), 18.26 (new)| -33 | F | gw: 115/110]

Created: Sun Jun 10 04:50:50 2018

ID: e0fdn6v

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It's strange definitely. I come from a pretty thin family. My dad may have some element of orthorexia but that started recently. My mum has a 18 BMI (maybe lower). It's so easy to stay slim here (not lose weight because non of us really need to). We don't even eat that healthily, but small portions, few desserts and no snacks save for fruit or veg. Most days are no-sugar yoghurt, fruit, and maple syrup and granola for my mum. It used to be oatmeal but we all got sick of it.



Then lunch, fresh brown bread with butter and cheese and some salad. Maybe an egg or two.



Dinner, usually some kind of starch, meat/bean and veggie dish, or soup with bread and butter. I grew up eating a lot of lamb stew. I loved those foods and don't see them as "healthy" just as "normal" as they're not super low calorie or whatever.



Moving from my home where this was the norm (not in the US but still a Western, English speaking country) to the US for college was a nightmare for me. I gained 30lbs. Every summer I would lose it by restricting but still eating my family's foods, it was so much easier. I remember sometimes eating too much at kids parties when I was younger because I didn't generally have those junk foods, but then I would eat less the next day (1 egg not 2, no bread or whatever) and it would be fine. But being around that mindset all the time was so toxic! I realise now every time I've had a major binge cycle it's been in the US, especially if I have free reign. My first bout with anorexia was in response to gaining 20lbs in 6 weeks in America on exchange at 15. Of course it isn't just situation, my obsessive personality fed into it (both gaining and losing) but I never felt so confused about what to eat when I was at home.



My first night in my college town I went to the pharmacy to get shampoo etc and was shocked. There was more food in the pharmacy than pharmaceuticals. Wtf? Food is EVERYWHERE and it's crap food mostly. There's only like, chicken and fucking waffles (Wtf!) And then super super healthy food that tastes like ass and is just marketed via health like acai bowls and giant salads and shit. Nobody eats the way my family did.



When people meet my family or I talk about the food I ate growing up people just lump it in with the latter, but it isn't like that, it's just normal home cooked food in healthy portions.



For parents out there with ED, I would highly recommend adopting some of the strategies my mum took with me. Although I'm a little fucked up, I feel like I can get over it with time and knowing once I am the weight I want to be I can revert to how I ate growing up is super comforting. Plus, my sister and brother who have more steady-going personalities are both at a normal weight and have zero struggles with food beyond "oh I was on holiday and ate a little too much for 2 weeks, gonna have to reduce my portions and exercise for the next 2 weeks".



Key parts of how it worked growing up was: always ate three meals a day, with 2 small snacks at 10.30am and after school. Later my mum realised we got hungrier after school than at dinner so we actually ended up eating a big meal at around 5 after sports practice and maybe an apple if we got peckish later. Dinner, especially when we were younger, was structured. We always ate off of those cheap blue and white china crockery sets you can get at asian supermarkets, as they have more little dishes and these are smaller. Our food was given in courses. First course was green leafy salad, which we were mandated to finish. We were each allowed 1 vegetable we didn't eat and could leave off of the salad, but it was forever. So mine was raw tomato because I hate them and my sister's was cucumber. This prevented much pickyness. 2nd course was a light vegetable soup (basically broth veggies garlic and chilli, slightly blitzed). We had to eat the soup. Third course was cooked veggies (steamed broccoli or zucchini or roasted, or sometimes made into ratatouille). This also had to be finished. Fourth course was meat and starch, usually made in a traditional way for my country, like lamb stew with rice or minced curry beef and potatoes. It usually had some veggies in it too. We didn't have to finish it, and we would sometimes be too full from all the veggies to do so. If we were still hungry after that, my mum always had a bowl of fruit salad for us to have as "dessert". And that was that.



If we got hungry during the day, we could have a snack but we had to ask, it would never be denied though. There was no packaged food in the house except as very occasional treats, so snacks were mostly fruit or veg or a slice of cheese. I never felt hungry growing up, but I never ate a lot of junk and I feel like it was always very nutritious. That was always my mum's goal: have enough veggies and nutrients. We all played sports, ballet, tennis, softball, track, hockey, etc, so it was important that we had enough.



I think the clean plate thing was invented to make kids eat their veggies and meat, the things they need, but I see so many people that cannot leave parts of a meal if they are too full because they were taught to always finish. My mum's approach, if laborious and formal, worked to mitigate that.



Last but not least, little junky snacks are good for kids too, but it can't be like we now think, oh bag of chips as a "snack" to "keep me going". It doesn't keep you going! It's not nutritious! About once every two weeks though, my family would be watching a movie and my mum would suddenly pop out bearing little rice sized bowls of Doritos for every kid, or 2 squares of chocolate or whatever she had squirrelled away. And I appreciated them a lot more that way! Place they were always portioned for us and put into little bowls. Never ate from the bag and am honestly still grossed out by it.



Even when I'm not exhibiting symptoms of my disorder (and I can have periods when I'm actually really fine, not binging or starving, depending on how I'm doing emotionally), I tend to eat similar foods to when I was growing up, sometimes get unhealthy things (deep fried or burgers or whatever) but only eat until I'm satiated. My boyfriend thinks I'm insane when I eat 1/3 of a large sub but I am full and don't need more. And I tend to maintain my weight perfectly, no counting.



Tldr: America/the West has a problem. Everything is either "good" or "bad" with mostly bad food around. Even normal food habits are seen as weirdly healthy. Teach your kids about nutrition! Get them used to normal servings! Don't starve them or stuff them, you as the parent are in control, and if they learn a good way early on, they will likely revert to that as they grow older.

/u/LevyMevy

Created: Tue Aug 21 04:29:02 2018

ID: e4kaxhu

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amen.



/u/madeoneover

Created: Tue Jul 24 03:28:37 2018

ID: e2xpalq

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Bookmarking this for when I have kids. Sounds like your parents had great ideas about food, and I'm always terrified about giving my kids an ED when I have them.

/u/LevyMevy

Created: Tue Aug 21 04:29:09 2018

ID: e4kaxn3

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> Bookmarking this for when I have kids. Sounds like your parents had great ideas about food, and I'm always terrified about giving my kids an ED when I have them.



truth

/u/candiicanex

Created: Sun Jun 10 10:49:16 2018

ID: e0ftbnh

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Thanks for this comment. I grew up with parents who starve all day and do huge binges in the evening. They would always say eat peanut butter and jelly if you’re hungry. I became obese pretty quickly as it’s loaded with sugar and I never felt like it reduced hunger. It’s nice to read in detail about what is considered more towards normal.



Now that I have a child I don’t want to pass on the binging. I think the snack foods and processed stuff has gotta go from the house. So many garbage snacks in the US.

/u/fuckingupleftnright [5'7" | 117lbs | 18.32 (old), 18.26 (new)| -33 | F | gw: 115/110]

Created: Sun Jun 10 11:06:03 2018

ID: e0fuaqh

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Thank you for reading my rant! I think its good just to try not make food such a priority, which is hard in our culture of either dieting or binge eating. One thing I was also struck by when I came to the US were the ads for weight loss shit, on the subway and in magazines etc. Then next ad is for supersized burgers. The focus was so off because it was always about gorging and then dieting. The hope is that if you can be healthy and balanced, you don't need to binge (Like your parents did) or even diet much.



I obviously have a fucked up view of this because ED. I'm glad to be able to say it wasn't caused by my mum or the way I was taught to eat as a child. Even as it is, I feel like I could have had it so much worse, I haven't ever been above normal and hope not to go too far below. If I have kids, however, I also hope to help them avoid the trauma that helped forge this problem.

/u/candiicanex

Created: Sun Jun 10 13:21:04 2018

ID: e0g2apm

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Yea. I definitely ideally would like to just always choose healthier options, eat at regular intervals, and not have to worry about weight. Knowing when to stop eating is proving to be a new challenge. Portion distortion is a big problem for most people here in the US.

/u/gsingh1895

Created: Sun Jun 10 04:21:43 2018

ID: e0fcw6c

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Exactly. I don’t know what a proper relationship with food even looks like, our entire culture celebrates so many aspects of EDs it’s scary

/u/LMichaelM [KetoFaster! ♂60 | 5'8" 11%BF cw≈125# gw120#]

Created: Sun Jun 10 03:33:41 2018

ID: e0fbpcl

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I've been health\-aware all my adult life, a lean runner since my 30s (male, now 60yrs) but I only got hard\-core in optimizing my nutrition a couple years ago… That's when I quickly learned that, nope, you \*cannot\* eat like the mass culture does (SAD and "intuitively," "three\-squares," etc., etc.) and achieve/maintain optimal health.



\*It simply will not compute.\*



So I endorse everything you say, \*u/BunnyWithBPD…\* But I've gone past the rancor. Society is driven by economic forces, among which the processed food giants hand\-in\-hand with big\-pharma and our lucratively lobbied policy makers in DC reign supreme. And the lowest common denominator in the populace sets the norm. All this I accept (resistance is futile) — \*but then, I expend my passions and energies on amping up my knowledge and swimming upstream, against the mainstream…\*



\*\*\[tl;dr:\]\*\* \*\*\*Yes, there is a mass/societal ED, and most of us are it's victims; outliers will put in the learning\-legwork and then knowledeably reject the norm. — I'll add (to hell with downvotes), age and smarts are powerful pluses in this!\*\*\*

/u/grimreapersdtr

Created: Sun Jun 10 03:07:00 2018

ID: e0fb12l

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You forgot to add the holiday\-food\-binge cultural phenomenon where one HAS to gorge on fattening foods every Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving Week, the entire month of December ("because it's Christmas, time to be FAT and JOLLY!!!", New Years', Valentine's Day, Easter.....

/u/frostfromfire [5'4" | CW 130 | GW 98 | LW 91 | F]

Created: Sun Jun 10 07:36:14 2018

ID: e0fj6q6

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Holy shit I hate “fat and jolly season”! I was losing weight a year after having a baby, finally got down to an okay healthy weight then Thanksgiving and Christmas rolled around and I gained 10-15 pounds in under 2 months because I was constantly eating the junk around the house and leftovers.

/u/MadeUpMelly

Created: Sun Jun 10 03:03:48 2018

ID: e0fay48

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I was overweight as a teen, and decided I did not want to be fat. I always drink Diet Coke and would always get the “why are you drinking diet?!!!!” I’m like, “Because I want to stay a healthy weight.”



You get strange looks if you eat a big and healthy salad instead of a greasy, fatty meal like everyone else and get called “anorexic.” Because you are thin because you actually care about watching your weight, you get people giving you looks of disdain like there’s something wrong with you, and some even say bullshit like, “I need to feed you!” In front of their friends and laugh, like it’s a joke that you’re thin!



It’s messed up.

/u/allonsy_badwolf [5'9| 109 lbs | 15.81 | 30 lbs | F]

Created: Sun Jun 10 07:16:35 2018

ID: e0ficty

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I just dread family parties because someone is going to grab my arm, or hug me, and I’m going to get hours of “go grab a snack,” “let me get you another plate!” “Want some cake?” “Oh you’re so thin, why don’t you eat?”



Then going to my fiance and telling him to feed me. Stay out of my business. I am sorry your whole family is obese, that is not the life I am going for here.

/u/BIueJayWay [5"3| CW:105 |GW: 102 |BMI:19 | F]

Created: Sun Jun 10 01:22:13 2018

ID: e0f87e1

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I agree with some of your points very much, but let's not pretend for a minute that having an eating disorder is a solution to this. Or that eating <1000 calories a day is any better for you health than over 2000 a day.



But honestly, I mostly agree. People don't just give ED people shit for not eating junk food, I've seen it with my little sister, who's at normal weight, my mother, who's healthy as can be, my friends, etc.. like.. Do they *want* people to get overweight? Or do they not understand that that kind of food makes you fat? Or do they understand it, but just.. don't care? Either way, why has overconsumption of food become so normalised? *Romanticized*, even, have you seen the state of Instagram?? When [this](http://1075koolfm.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/junk-food.jpg) is on Pinterest tagged "girls night!".. the notion that having a good time= consumimg copious amounts of cheese and potatoes.. it bothers the shit out of me.





/u/Pinetree_grrl

Created: Sun Jun 10 06:05:36 2018

ID: e0ffsb8

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That link looks exactly like an ED binge haul. Whoever posted that is either in extreme denial or trying to drop some big ass hints.

/u/labratte1996 [163 cm,CW Too Big| Binge Free Days: 4. | HW 65 kg | GW/LW 49 kg]

Created: Sun Jun 10 18:37:09 2018

ID: e0gkd57

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I mean, she did say "girl's night" so it's probably for multiple people. Not much of a binge then, I'd say.



....it'd make me anxious if that's all my friends bought for me us to eat, though :/

/u/Pinetree_grrl

Created: Sun Jun 10 20:53:02 2018

ID: e0grjq6

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Lolol, unless it's girl's night, as in one girl. I'm sure it probably is meant for multiple people. I think I'm just on such a long b/p streak that anything over a fistful of food looks like a binge. 😵

/u/bomulay

Created: Sun Jun 10 01:17:21 2018

ID: e0f82aa

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I completely agree with everything you said! I’m not from the US, I’m Italian but it’s the same here. I’m at a healthy weight right now, even though I struggle a lot with BED. It seems like people want to force food into my mouth when I’m only trying to control myself and to avoid types of food that can cause a binge when I’m by myself. People know nothing about calories or a balanced meal or anything like that. If they see you’re eating healthy, they think you’re

insane!

/u/happyricecake [5'3 |101lbs | BMI: 17.9 |21F]

Created: Sun Jun 10 00:37:00 2018

ID: e0f6u2m

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Completely agree. I'm living in Japan right now and find that the mindset towards food is pretty different. It's not even really that the food is healthier. There are of course really healthy foods like fish and vegetables and tofu, but people here love their McDonalds and their sweets just as much (sometimes I question if not more) than anywhere else in the world. But the portions are drastically smaller. You know how the serving size is written on nutrition label, but it's often half or even one-fourth of the whole package in the US? In Japan it's often packaged to the actual serving size, so if I get ice cream from the convenience store it's in about a half cup serving and often in between 150-350 calories. Even if you eat fattening foods, you're probably not going to accidentally consume your daily calorie allowance in one sitting (like you mentioned with Cheesecake Factory), and that seems to be something you always have to be concerned about in the states. I knew we had ridiculous portion sizes in the US compared to other countries, but yeah, it's really bad. Nobody seems to blink at consuming ridiculously large amounts of food because it's so normalized.

/u/NewBullMoose

Created: Fri Sep 21 10:18:23 2018

ID: e6dx451

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TIL I was born in the wrong country.

/u/gabrielepfr

Created: Sun Jun 10 00:29:22 2018

ID: e0f6kxb

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I sometimes think what a huge number of those people will die young. Out of sheer gluttony and lack of self-control.

People used to die at old age, or in wars, now they're just eating themselves to death.

/u/ExceedinglySadKitty

Created: Sun Jun 10 00:28:27 2018

ID: e0f6jv8

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You right. Sure wish I was dead

/u/smallest_madeline [F 5'0.5" | CW 99 | HW 125 | LW 80| GW 70 🍑 smallest_madeline]

Created: Sat Jun 9 23:55:38 2018

ID: e0f5frf

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This is an excellent post. Every social activity is centered around food--usually unhealthy food. My friends know I am into "fitness" so we have talked about diets/nutrition and it sounds like all my thin friends consciously do things to control their weight but it's so taboo to talk about it!

/u/PM_ME_BrusselSprouts [5'3" | CW: 165 | BMI: 30.0 | 33, F]

Created: Mon Sep 3 09:48:40 2018

ID: e5booch

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I know this is an old thread but it's so good. I wanted to comment that I'm borderline obese and people *still* try to force / encourage me to eat sweets and I literally don't like them. Like I say, I don't like Oreos or not in the mood for sweets and it's like I kicked their dog. They get personally offended... Like because I don't enjoy sweets? I can put down a bottle of wine and a burger and fries but if I don't want milk chocolate I must be on a diet or depriving myself. WTF.

/u/allonsy_badwolf [5'9| 109 lbs | 15.81 | 30 lbs | F]

Created: Sun Jun 10 07:11:29 2018

ID: e0fi5ed

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Or why do you think I’m thin dad? Because I don’t need a snack before each meal followed by dessert after. I’m already skinny because I know a dessert is a treat, not a fucking daily meal.



And same with working out. I work out so that I will stay a healthy weight. Sorry that you use diets instead of life changes and wonder why you can’t ever keep your weight off. A one month keto run won’t keep you thin and healthy for life.

/u/Iloveyouforfree

Created: Sat Jun 9 23:22:20 2018

ID: e0f44dg

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Dude seriously. My daughter is ten, and alongside my own shitty food relationship, it is like a constant struggle trying to figure out how to navigate promoting being healthy without making it obsessive or giving her a complex.

We went to Wendy's today for the first time (yeah, $2 kids meals) and she got a Jr frosty with hers and said "this is so cute, and probably the size everyone should be drinking."

I hope that nonchalant, "this-is-enough-and-not-a-big-deal" attitude sticks with her. The idea that she could wind up with food issues on either side of the spectrum is terrifying to me.

(She's such a kind and wonderful kid, and that's obvs the most important thing, but still.)



/u/gigi-has-issues

Created: Sun Jun 10 09:02:25 2018

ID: e0fnadn

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You sound like a good mom.

/u/Iloveyouforfree

Created: Wed Jun 13 11:04:18 2018

ID: e0lzvn9

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💕

/u/WordEnthusiast

Created: Sun Jun 10 09:01:31 2018

ID: e0fn8ni

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I'm also a mom and I think the way you're instilling ideas about food is wonderful.



Good job Mama!

/u/Iloveyouforfree

Created: Wed Jun 13 11:04:09 2018

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/u/jasontoddfan93 [5'6" | CW 123.4 | GW 125 | 24F]

Created: Sat Jun 9 23:41:48 2018

ID: e0f4x5w

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I don't have a kid, but this issue bothers a lot. How do you casually teach moderation and nutrition to a little girl in a way that doesnt call attention to itself? As a kid, your smallest mistakes feel like huge irredeemable failures. Not to mention, your parents can protect you from the media or peers. It seems like a reasonable thing to worry about as a parent, because weight issues (again, on either extreme) take a huge emotional toll on girls and women. We could all live such fuller lives without these disorders.

/u/frostfromfire [5'4" | CW 130 | GW 98 | LW 91 | F]

Created: Sun Jun 10 07:27:00 2018

ID: e0fisdt

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My daughter is still young (coming up on 2 years old) but we’re already teaching eating healthy and eating to satiety. She’s being raised vegetarian like me and has set foods that are okay. Eggs or yogurt for breakfast, fruits/cheese/veggies for snacks and lunch if she’s not too hungry, tofu or mushroom based protein with some bread or pasta and veggies for dinner. Lots of days she doesn’t want lunch. She’s very tall and a little underweight for her height but not alarmingly so; the pediatrician thinks her weight is perfect.



She rarely gets sugary food as we rarely buy it and she doesn’t like my “healthy homemade cookies” made with oat flour. We never push her to eat more if she’s already eaten a little bit and pushes the rest of the food away. I intend to teach her that it’s okay to eat unhealthy foods a few times a week but not to make it an everyday thing. I’m going to teach that being at a normal weight is the key to having energy for exercise and to living a long life. As long as it’s kind of engrained in her mind to eat healthy and exercise, she won’t become overweight and she shouldn’t struggle with dieting. She could have some disordered thinking but it wouldn’t be as severe as someone who is overweight and trying terrible methods to lose weight.





/u/sonorie

Created: Sun Jun 10 15:34:24 2018

ID: e0ga7uy

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wish my mom did this with me instead of literally smacking me for 'being rude' if I didn't want dinner -_____-

/u/omg_for_real

Created: Sun Jun 10 02:20:41 2018

ID: e0f9ttc

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Not op, but the struggle is real, and it has me in a panic sometimes. The best thing I can do for my 11yo and 5 yo daughters is to make sure they can talk to me about anything. And hope that they can. So that if things I can’t protect them from get unmanageable I am there to help.

/u/ItchyElderberry [40s F 5'10" 152]

Created: Sat Jun 9 23:18:07 2018

ID: e0f3y6t

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Preach it, sister!

/u/peachpal95

Created: Sat Jun 9 23:01:32 2018

ID: e0f3ava

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Seriously. THIS. This doesn’t happen to me too much bc I’m not thin anymore and I don’t eat as health consciously as I once did, but some people STILL treat me like I’m some sort of freakishly heath conscious nutrition buff. My old roommate always ranted about how “healthy” I am just because I didn’t eat and drink the same trash she did. I’d get like seaweed snacks and frozen Amy’s dinners and fruit and dairy free yogurt but I’d still drink a ton of Coke Zero and pretty regularly eat chips or candy. That’s the fucking standard of “healthy” to some people?! No. It’s insanity. It like warps your mind too bc I’ve been in recovery for years now and being in this crazy junk food obsessed culture makes me question if when I make a healthy food choice am I actually subconsciously restricting my calorie and fat intake and not being “normal”? But no. There is no fucking normal here. It’s so hard to develop a healthy relationship with food in a toxic environment

/u/sh-ether [5'6 | genderqueer | gw1: 130 | gw2: 120 | gw3:115]

Created: Sat Jun 9 22:10:16 2018

ID: e0f10yr

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i agree with all of this, but 4-6 speak to me on a spiritual level. i really really really hate memes about loving unhealthy food/your only form of exercise being netflix marathons/etc. and sparkling water is delicious!

/u/pailblusea [5'6.5"| CW 126.8 | BMI 20.5 | UGW 115 | F]

Created: Sat Jun 9 22:38:38 2018

ID: e0f2bej

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I don't care too much for the taste of sparkling water...tastes just okay but I love how lightweight it makes me feel drinking it. Makes me feel pretty and feminine lol.

/u/astra2018

Created: Sat Jun 9 21:58:21 2018

ID: e0f0hpu

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thank you for this!! today my grandma FREAKED OUT over how thin i am, when my bmi is literally 18.6......she said i need to eat more, then took me out for sundaes. I ate a very big sundae and when we got home she insisted that i didn’t eat any food today at all and NEEDED a big dinner. ugh. I hate how eating healthy is seen as a pretentious thing now. it’s really irritating when i’m trying to eat healthy when everyone is a glutton. our society is seriously prioritizing the wrong things now....

/u/NewBullMoose

Created: Fri Sep 21 10:21:35 2018

ID: e6dxcs7

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My grandma does the same thing with forcing food on me. I love her to death, but I’m beginning to resent her because she isn’t just doing it casually, she is relentless. I’ll say no to her requests that I eat more and have dessert upwards of four and five times over the course of an hour. I hate that she does it even though I know it comes from a place of love, but that fact doesn’t change how it’s beginning to make me feel about her.



Lose lose situation.

/u/diekatzenpyjamas

Created: Sat Jun 9 21:56:35 2018

ID: e0f0eru

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I totally agree. And it also seems that anymore most people think you're an asshole if you even mention that you eat healthy food and have lost weight or are fit, work out, anything other than eating whatever you want, as much as you want, whenever you want. Because only non assholes do that.



People are offended if you don't want to be over weight.



Another thing i've noticed that is totally new when i was growing up, everyone really is fat anymore. I've been to our local pool several times this summer and i kid you not, like 99% of the people there are over weight. It's crazy. When i was a kid and a teenager you'd only see a few over weight people at the pool.

/u/Zefuyne

Created: Sat Jun 9 21:55:18 2018

ID: e0f0cjr

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haha abs are nice but have you heard of MAC N CHEESE TACOS



u got me lel. but yeah, u rite.

/u/PM_ME_USEFUL_ADVICE [5'1" | cw: 107 | gw1: 98 | gw2: 93 | F]

Created: Sat Jun 9 21:37:19 2018

ID: e0ezi53

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Totally agree. I also find the quirky fitness wear super annoying like 'fitness, more like fit this pizza in my mouth'

/u/bunnywithbpd [5"1.5 | CW: 105 | HW: 130]

Created: Sat Jun 9 21:49:26 2018

ID: e0f02k1

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Yea they're also the type of people who make new year goals to go the gym every year and bail out. Legit makes me want to bang my head on the wall.

/u/IPreferItNotToBe

Created: Sun Jun 10 07:57:06 2018

ID: e0fk2rt

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Well I feel like a fraud because I was going to the gym at the start of the year (had nothing to do with resolutions) but stopped after like a month or two because I almost passed out there and the ED got worse and I have no energy to physically talk some days so I’m always scared people are thinking this about me which I know they are because I see a lot of comments like this on here and it feels shitty

/u/Iceblaze23

Created: Sun Jun 10 10:14:42 2018

ID: e0fra8e

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same here, one of my big problems is overexercising way too hard due to bulimia :/ i agree with the post's sentiments but it degrading the other side of the ED spectrum leaves a bad taste in my mouth imo

/u/Darthvaderr13

Created: Sat Jun 9 21:35:46 2018

ID: e0ezfkq

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Literally everywhere you go there’s a fast food place and in the check out lanes at stored there tons of candy and junk food. It’s kinda disgusting it’s like the government wants us fat and sick.

/u/wlfn90

Created: Sat Jun 9 22:34:34 2018

ID: e0f24ou

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Not to sound like a conspiracy theorist or anything, but in the US anyway government representatives do take money from lobbyists in various food industries and pharmaceutical industries. For the most part they aren’t concerned with public welfare, they’re concerned about their pocketbooks.

/u/red_ossifrage [5'5" | 99lbs]

Created: Sun Jun 10 18:04:27 2018

ID: e0ginva

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It's not a conspiracy theory when it's true!

/u/BroItsJesus [5'4 | CW 185 | GW 120 | 18F]

Created: Sun Jun 10 01:05:07 2018

ID: e0f7p9p

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Countries where it's legal for politicians to take funding for campaigns is sooooo fucked. They all just get bought off!

/u/pailblusea [5'6.5"| CW 126.8 | BMI 20.5 | UGW 115 | F]

Created: Sat Jun 9 21:30:42 2018

ID: e0ez6uk

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This post is AMAZING, thank you for saying it. I completely agree. Things are fucked up when being at a 26 BMI everyone telling me I am tiny and so skinny (me three months ago) and I don't need to lose weight. Compared to most Americans I guess that's true. It's just *weird* how times have changed. I don't remember thin being in since the 90's, lol.

/u/MissNietzsche

Created: Sun Jun 10 03:15:30 2018

ID: e0fb8uc

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Did you lose 34 lbs in those three months?!

/u/pailblusea [5'6.5"| CW 126.8 | BMI 20.5 | UGW 115 | F]

Created: Sun Jun 10 03:59:31 2018

ID: e0fccab

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38 actually but most of it water weight. I think about 25 or so came off in the first month. I was hella bloated.

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/u/PurplePartyPig

Created: Sat Jun 9 21:22:02 2018

ID: e0eyro5

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Yes!!! And seriously, why the fuck do people get so offended that I eat vegetables and serve my kid vegetables? But, no one gave a shit when I was bingeing 6000+ calories a day on the regular.

/u/omg_for_real

Created: Sun Jun 10 02:15:51 2018

ID: e0f9p8z

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Omg this! I’m i. Australia, but we have. Similar issue with obesity. No one I me when my kids eat fast food, but when we are at the part and I pull out strawberries and carrot sticks the snarky comments and hatred for the fruit and veg! It’s like hello! Get over it! It has nothing to do with you what I feed my kids.

/u/gigi-has-issues

Created: Sun Jun 10 09:01:30 2018

ID: e0fn8n5

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Woah. Not a mom but I thought crudite and fruit was like the normal kid 'snack'???????? Times have changed.

/u/red_ossifrage [5'5" | 99lbs]

Created: Sun Jun 10 18:02:14 2018

ID: e0gijqq

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Tbh, why do kids even need snacks? I think about it sometimes, and this whole culture where we've decided kids should never be hungry for even 60 seconds, and should have their cravings instantly gratified, strikes me as really unhealthy.



"Snacks" (not counting a sort of afternoon tea or afterschool bite to eat) are not a normal thing in some European countries, and I think we'd do well to emulate that.

/u/ayybih

Created: Sun Jun 10 19:06:24 2018

ID: e0gltz5

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My son has a lot of snacks because he’s cannot sit still for twenty minutes to eat a proper meal 90% of the time lol. I feel like a lot of kids are like this tbh. If sat down and ate a proper meal I wouldn’t give so many snacks. But his snacks are pretty much always fruit. Not chips or stuff like that

/u/red_ossifrage [5'5" | 99lbs]

Created: Sun Jun 10 19:13:42 2018

ID: e0gm7dc

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Haha, not trying to snack-shame anyone. It's different if your kid doesn't like to feed on an adult schedule. (Or if your kid is picky/weird about food, or has other issues, etc.) What I'm talking about is parents who are constantly lugging around bags of Goldfish and Cheerios and the like for no particular reason, just because you're always "supposed" to have snacks.

/u/ayybih

Created: Sun Jun 10 19:42:40 2018

ID: e0gnpb6

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Ugh. Yes. You know what drives me crazy? THE PLAIN FOOD. Like I work in a restaurant and everyone orders everything so plain for kids. Cheese quesadilla, meat and cheese taco, etc. like ugh nooo my son eats everything. Spicy food, veggies, kimchi, everything because I made it a point to make sure he ate a variety of flavors. I hate the plain food phenomenon with kids

/u/red_ossifrage [5'5" | 99lbs]

Created: Sun Jun 10 19:47:57 2018

ID: e0gnzb0

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It makes me sad because it's basically setting them up to have a restricted palate as adults :( It's admirable that you're trying to buck those expectations and get your kid started off on the best possible foot. My parents always fed me adult foods, too, and I think it was really beneficial.

/u/ConceptualBe-ing

Created: Tue Jul 3 19:46:41 2018

ID: e1r6isq

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@red_ossifrage



A huge curiosity: what do you or do you not eat to maintain your shape? If you don’t mind the question.

/u/red_ossifrage [5'5" | 96lbs]

Created: Tue Jul 3 22:02:08 2018

ID: e1rdtbj

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I don't mind at all. First of all, I'm vegetarian, mostly vegan at this point. I eat a heavily plant-based diet. I also eat a lot of Asian-inspired dishes. Regular meals in my rotation include kale salad, chopped veggie salad (carrots, radishes, pea pods, bell pepper, etc. over romaine, with tofu), mixed bean/corn salad (with jalapeno, salad greens, and avocado),succotash, soba with cucumber/tofu/peapods/sesame dressing, cauliflower chard soup, cabbage/root vegetable soup, carrot ginger soup, lentil soup, dal, mujadara, yellow lentils over rice, Nepalese spicy black beans (w/my Californian addition of avocado, cucumber, & tomato, haha), spicy chickpeas/spinach over couscous, and root vegetables/brussels sprouts/potatoes/tofu over couscous.



That said, I eat pretty widely. I had pizza tonight, banana bread yesterday, and spanikopita and pasta w/broccoli rabe over the weekend. That is to say, I don't really have fear foods. (Other than, like, fucking muffins. Fuck those guys. And cheesecake. And a couple other things.) The key is understanding portion control and not overeating high-calorie foods. So you have one piece of banana bread and stop there, for instance. And generally speaking, I just eat smaller portions than a normal person would, even of "good foods," in part because the feeling of being full makes me want to die because wowowow EDs are so much fun.



So that's the lowdown on how I eat! Hope that helped.

/u/ConceptualBe-ing

Created: Wed Jul 4 04:11:33 2018

ID: e1rrobt

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Thank you so much for that. I’ve been a vegan for about a year, fruits, nutritional yeast, oatmeal, and vegetables included (coffee, water, and tea only for drinks), then switched to only eating vegetables for the last two months (including sweet potatoes), but can not for some reason get below 104 at 5’5, even running at least 25 miles a week and gardening at least 15 hours a week in the last two months. I’ve been in a water/coffee/tea fast for the last three days and have lost about 5 pounds, but have never reached below 100.



Do you fast? How long have you been eating and exercising like this?



You’re a great help! It would be so good to know more about you!

/u/red_ossifrage [5'5" | 96lbs]

Created: Wed Jul 4 13:19:36 2018

ID: e1sjuof

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I sometimes restrict heavily, usually on weekends. Can't restrict during the week anymore; I would lose my job if I couldn't concentrate. However, I basically never fast these days. I used to when I was anorexic, and when I was in the sort of liminal stage between anorexia and whatever I am now. But these days, I generally feel like it's unproductive and only encourages bingeing, not to mention my body has changed and I can just no longer "power through" a day on 0 calories. If I try, I tremble uncontrollably, my legs go out under me on the stairs, and I just generally feel like total shit.



(Just to explain, I no longer consider myself anorexic, because my ED is much more under control, I barely have fear foods, and I don't fast or constantly restrict heavily. I no longer intend to lose weight indefinitely, and I have a far more realistic understanding of my body and my appearance. I still have a fun pack of delusional ED thoughts, but they have little power over me anymore, and I almost never hear the "anorexic voice" anymore. Obviously, I'm still mentally unwell, given that I hate myself if I weigh more than 105, but what am I gonna do, you know? I've had disordered behaviors since age 9 or 10 and developed anorexia at 11. I've been in this so long that I literally do not know how to exist any other way, and like, I don't fucking want to. ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯ It's not great, but that's life.)



TBH, hearing you describe your issue, I'm wondering if you need to UP your caloric intake, and add more dietary fats and carbs. Hear me out on this...I'm a big believer in zig-zagging and high calorie days. My body does not like to let go of weight unless I'm regularly tricking it into thinking I'm gonna eat a ton and then suddenly cutting off my calories again. I'd also think about reducing your mileage, like, switching between lower mileage and high mileage weeks. I know how scary it is to eat more, especially if you're cutting exercise, but personally, I gained SO MUCH more control over my weight when I let go of straight anorexia and started ramping calories and exercise up and down on a regular basis.



So maybe consider giving that a try?

/u/ConceptualBe-ing

Created: Wed Jul 4 13:34:30 2018

ID: e1skql2

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It seems since you’ve been partaking on restriction since early age, your bones are thinner and lighter.

My body has only gotten used to restriction and heavy exercise starting at the age of 18.



This type of regimented lifestyle makes us extreme perfectionists, and it could get quite lonely and cause avoidance of deep issues. But, it’s our source of control and maintenance. Total insanity and self hatred may arise if we pass a certain numerical limit.



Water fasting also helps with long term weight management and overall health. Channeling our emotional energies into creative outlets like writing, meditating, singing, or work provides productive distractions as well. And sometimes the “pleasure” of life others seem to have (alcohol, hedonism, limitless and spontaneous tasting) are not approachable.



You are so strong in your pursuits! Stay well, and if you ever need a friend to talk to with open ears, feel free to reach out. The beginning of your early days is here!

/u/red_ossifrage [5'5" | 96lbs]

Created: Wed Jul 4 14:41:17 2018

ID: e1sop8l

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I don't think I have osteoporosis/low bone density. My mom was obsessed with calcium and vitamin d when I was growing up so even at my worst I was always consuming milk/yogurt/cheese/fortified tofu, and a ton of dark leafy greens. I've also been doing load-bearing exercise almost all my life, which helps. I've never had amenorrhea and despite playing contact sports for years have never broken/fractured anything.



Osteoporosis is one of my greatest fears, so I've always tried to do what I can to minimize the possibility.



I'm also always here if you need to talk!

/u/omg_for_real

Created: Sun Jun 10 09:12:32 2018

ID: e0fntk2

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It has, it is convenient to have all the processed food that comes in handy lunch box sized individual portions with cartoon characters on them. And a lot of the time it is cheaper to buy than fresh fruit that isn’t the best quality and goes bad quickly.



We have kitchen garden programs running in a lot of our schools where the kids will grow veg and fruit and cook with it. And you would be surprised at the number of kids who don’t know what a lot of the basic veggies are beyond a carrot, peas and corn.



A lot of schools try to push parents for healthy lunch boxes, and educate kids about it, but T the end of he day it’s he parents that buy the food.



I help out at my daughters school and I’m on the school governing council so I know what an issue lunches can be. I have at all their schools. And some of the lunch boxes have been terrible. I must admit hey have been schools with a high proportion of low socioeconomic families. Which plays a big part of it. But a lunch box with chips, chocolate biscuits, a roll up (which is basically just a fruit flavoured sugar), a juice flavoured drink whichever is all sugar, and a sand which is setting kids up for failure. All sugar and carbs, they crash and the behaviour issues and lack of concentration etc.



And this is for the kids who actually get lunch.

/u/drylyksanddunes

Created: Sun Jun 10 02:31:02 2018

ID: e0fa3h5

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I've received some comments when I've been babysitting my nephew in Aus. The kid loves to eat olives, I did too when I was young but I guess it's not normal kid food.



Haven't gotten any negative comments about my niece or nephew eating veggies or sharing my salad when out though. The kids also love salads, it makes me so happy that I don't have to look over fussy eaters, I hope my future kids get as excited over fresh vegetables, fruit and cheese as these two cuties.



Seeing obese kids just makes me so sad. I was fat and its honestly plain neglect on the parents part, kids should be given the opportunity to grow up healthy with a good relationship with food. My sister feels the same and she's done a fantastic job so far.

/u/omg_for_real

Created: Sun Jun 10 02:42:44 2018

ID: e0fael0

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Some of it is the mum competition, it is vicious. It’s like they think I’m showing off. But another part is the fact they think I’m a bit cruel for not giving my kids junk food like lll the other kids. But my kids couldn’t care less lol. I’m lucky that’s the only thing I did right as a mum. They eat and like healthy food and use manners while out. Lol.

/u/TaylorUrbana

Created: Sat Jun 9 21:21:49 2018

ID: e0eyr9c

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Seriously though. I've had people tell me that I look sick when I'm deep in. My roommates would make fun of me in stunned expressions when I would eat 500 calories in a day and then go run non-stop up a hill for an hour. You know what? They fucking eat entire pizzas on the regular, have minimum of 4 meals a day, drink all the time, get ice cream shakes all the time, and so much other shit. And I'm the one that sick our doing something wrong!? They might be able to sit on their asses and eat like shit and stay that thin, but I'm not able to do that. At least I'm doing something to better myself. All they're doing is being sick and lazy and then judging me when I'm actually trying here.

/u/aBadMovieGeek

Created: Sat Jun 9 21:00:07 2018

ID: e0expzc

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This should get gold. For real, this is so fucking right!

/u/spaceindividual

Created: Sat Jun 9 20:53:46 2018

ID: e0exemg

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Standing ovation for you

/u/crystaltartan [F 30 | 5'6 | BMI 17.43 | CW 108 | GW 96 |]

Created: Sat Jun 9 20:45:54 2018

ID: e0ewzxv

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I have no idea how anyone in the US could possibly have a normal relationship with food. Either you do what almost everyone does and you frequently eat all the ubiquitous food that's so bad for you, or you try desperately to control your life while the inescapable food culture beats you over the head. I can't imagine unconsciously maintaining a normal weight when fattening food and constant snacks are a part of literally everything we do.



Even just checking out at the damn fabric store means walking past a wall of sweets and chips. It is not a grocery store. I do not understand!

/u/freddinkledick

Created: Fri Oct 5 06:57:17 2018

ID: e77msdr

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It’s actually pretty easy lol don’t be crazy

/u/little_chicken_wing [5’5” | 109 | bmi 18.1 | 🍑little_chicken_wing]

Created: Sat Jun 9 22:02:34 2018

ID: e0f0ojb

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This this this

/u/TaylorUrbana

Created: Sat Jun 9 21:17:17 2018

ID: e0eyj81

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It's even worse when you consider how the US food culture has impacted us all genetically. People in the US today are actually genetically incapable of maintaining weight the way we did 100 years ago. We've altered how the digestive systems of the last handful of generations actually function.



Stack that on top of my family already having genetic predisposition to fucking obesity unless you literally work out for hours a day every day, and no wonder the only way I can save myself from obesity is to not eat. It's like, what am I supposed to do? Should I just go out, get drunk, eat a ton of pizza, and do it all over again the next day like everyone else?! I fucking wish I could do that, but 2 fucking beers and I gain weight. It's hopeless.

/u/bunnywithbpd [5"1.5 | CW: 105 | HW: 130]

Created: Sat Jun 9 20:48:52 2018

ID: e0ex5ga

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Yea you know, I always thought it was weird that Joanns and Micheals have a candy section! I went to Home Depot, and they also sold chips and candy? Why is it everywhere?!!? I came here for science project supplies not for a snickers bar.

/u/Uncomfortable-Uncle

Created: Wed Jun 27 12:47:40 2018

ID: e1e7xqo

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I absolutely and completely agree with you about the candy in general, but I think Home Depot has that snack section because they are actually trying to appeal to those working on long projects without meal breaks. (The Home Depot I have near my house also had a sandwich/hotdog stand out front). Candy shouldn’t be the ‘go to’ for feeding your body, but I can understand their logic over a fucking old navy or staples.

/u/hotdog_bot

Created: Wed Jun 27 12:47:53 2018

ID: e1e7yc6

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You put "hotdog", did you mean open-faced sausage sandwich? 🌭

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/u/crystaltartan [F 30 | 5'6 | BMI 17.43 | CW 108 | GW 96 |]

Created: Sun Jun 10 11:22:43 2018

ID: e0fv9pj

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YES. Home Goods? Michael's? JoAnn's? Home improvement stores? Williams-Sonoma? All the discount stores like TJMaxx and Marshall's? Drugstores? Gas stations? Every checkout line everywhere? FUCK YOU ALL; CANDY IS NOT A NORMAL PART OF EVERY ASPECT OF LIFE.

/u/red_ossifrage [5'5" | 99lbs]

Created: Sun Jun 10 17:54:57 2018

ID: e0gi62a

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*CANDY IS NOT A NORMAL PART OF EVERY ASPECT OF LIFE*



This should be on posters fucking everywhere.



America, you need help. It is mind-boggling to me how much sugar is consumed in this culture. I don't even really subscribe to the Gary Taubes "Sugar is actual poison" school of thought, but holy SHIT. Why and how did this much sugar consumption become acceptable?? What really makes me rage is seeing kids getting hooked into it. Schools are awash in sugar--random candy and cupcakes everywhere. Sports games are followed by sugary drinks and junk food. Parents casually give their kids lunches loaded with sugar, too. For instance, PB&J is honestly pretty terrible for you. And then taking into account that most people make them with "jam" and "peanut butter" that's basically just fruit/nut-flavored sugar sauce, and put it on white bread that's also full of sugar, and just...oh my GOD, why.

/u/indentionsofme [Height 5"10 | CW 106 | HW 142| GW 95 l BMI 15.2]

Created: Sun Jun 10 12:21:10 2018

ID: e0fyqtl

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I was JUST in homegoods and TJMaxx this afternoon. Those check out lines are so long as they bring you through the line they have soooo many different candies and chips and interesting things you usually don't see. I am like I am here for a bed for my cat, and I got a face lotion and shirt. Now I want those damn fancy gummies!

/u/Zvezda_24 [5'11 | SW: 216 | CW: 189.6 | GW: 160 | UGW: 150 | 22F]

Created: Sun Jun 10 04:26:24 2018

ID: e0fd0iv

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Yeah seriously! Even old navy has a candy section. And they're already a terrible vanity sizing store. I'm a true medium up top, and I can easily flaunt an xs from old navy. Like wut -. -

/u/strawberrybubblegam

Created: Sat Jun 9 20:44:18 2018

ID: e0ewwvt

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slow clapping it out...i couldn’t agree w you more.

/u/funky_s

Created: Sun Jun 10 05:06:43 2018

ID: e0fe297

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same :)