"All self-respecting women want to be thin"

[AedanRayne]

I follow an extreme low-calorie diet four times a year - one each season. I lose at least half-a-stone each time, though the side-effects mean that I don't have the mental or physical fortitude to work.

She must have been in one of her "low-calorie" cycles when she wrote that article.......because she doesn't have the mental fortitude for sure! An extreme low-calorie diet -AKA Anorexia?

Anorexia isn't a joke.

I've had an eating disorder before, & I can promise no one I knew sad the things she did. An eating disorder classifies feeling poorly of yourself, but never holding others to the same standards. Most ED people I knew graded people on a far healthier end of the BMI spectrum as beautiful rather than the lower end. No one I knew with an eating disorder, including myself, have ever held their self to this high of standard, while degrading others. This is the absolute opposite of what those suffering from EDs go through and should never be classified as such.

What she suffers from is definitely a mental disease, though.

I hope I didnt offend you or anyone else with an eating disorder....I wasn't joking, not sure why you assumed I was.

Katerina wouldn't make a joke about such a serious disease, Gemma. I read what she said and it didn't come off a joke, in my mind. ((HUG TO ALL))

 

[SexyGabrielle]

I read this while shoveling macaroni and cheese into my face, and it's so stupid that I'm not even offended.

Now I feel the urge to get some macaroni and cheese.

About the article, well... it's only a nonsense opinion to me. If she's happy being thin and "beautiful", fine for her. I think us (big people) tend to take opinions too seriously, specially the ones that can harm us; but what I've learned over these years, is that we must take the opinions and give them the importance they deserve. To me, this is BS and that's it.

I think around me is more people that actually love me and that's what really matters.