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From: Rita B. (208.186.194.167)
In Reply to: I agree ... posted by Blue Girl on March 14, 2005 at 4:58 am:
Enjoy your young adulthood and your healthy body! I was a thin teen (5 6 1/2 and 118 pounds) and put on 10 pounds in college. Surrounded by dieting women in the dorm, I joined the quest to regain adolescent thinness. After years of anorexia and bulimia, I finally realized I didn't want to spend my adult life counting calories, and that 130 was a good adult weight for my small frame. However, the years I spent obsessing over weight had changed my relationship to food. In my teen years, food was simply fuel. Post bulimia, it became a way to handle emotional upheavals. Ironically, my extreme preocupation with food and weight actually led me to binge more and gain weight. At 46, I am still working to regain a healthy attitude. If you can't maintain a happy weight by eating healthy foods (and even an ocassional Toblerone!) and getting some daily exercise, then either your idea of a good weight is not realistic for an adult woman or there is something wrong with nature. It should't be necessary for healthy people to have to worry day about what they're eating. Keep good habits, trust your body and enjoy the fact that your boyfriend likes you just the way you are. (Part of my tipping into anorexia was a college boyfriend who, even when I got down to 115 pounds, told me a "few more pounds" and I'd be "perfect.") If you can learn to have a healthy attitude toward food in your twenties, you will save yourself decades of unhappiness! Look around you--see how many 50-year-old women are comfortable and confident with their bodies and the food they choose. You'll find few of them, but you can be one! Rita B.
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