eating disorders

Good post. Got a lot of em here.

Well said. An eating disorder doesn't leave you when you get overweight, all it does is change form.

People don't understand that very well. A lot of people in the anorexic or purging state are particularly cruel, laughing at the claims of overweight people who claim eating disorders. I've seen a lot of pics of overweight people with seriously ugly comments in general under them on pro-ana sites. Makes me sad.

If I'd said I had an eating disorder when I weighed 200+ pounds most people would probably have laughed or thought I just meant that I liked stuffing my face too much.

Our society doesn't help much. Treating fat people like garbage and acting as if we're invisible. The attention I've gotten in the past few months, and especially the past few weeks from men in particular is definitely an incentive to keep losing. Sometimes too strong of an incentive.