Scream of Consciousness...

Lesley Kinzel (via curvesahead)

I will always reblog this because it is so so important. 

(via infinitetransit)

I just want to nail this to every stable surface I can find. I cannot count the amount of times that I’ve seen fat folks being encouraged, cajoled, and even forced into behaviors that would be recognized as disordered eating/exercising patterns in thin folks. 

Pretty much everything that’s done on shows like The Biggest Loser would be called out as pro-ana/pro-orthorexia in a thin person. Exercising past the point that it hurts, to the point where you’re throwing up, even injuring yourself? Berating yourself because you didn’t lose ENOUGH weight this week? Constantly talking about how fat is weakness and thinness will make everything better, about how you can’t stand to be your current weight anymore? Emphasis on weight as a sign of how much control, strength, and worth you have? Viewing food as bad, as a temptation to sin? Constant sharing and talking about tips on how to minimize food intake, how to lose weight? 

That sounds exactly like every pro-ana/pro-mia blog I’ve ever seen. It’s also what fat people are told we need to be doing to ourselves until we’re thin. 

(via madamethursday)

It’s also important to note that medically, they won’t give you the diagnosis of an eating disorder unless you’re considered underweight. 

(via recycleyrself)

What it comes down to is, being big or small in itself is not an eating disorder. It’s your relationship with food and the limiting or excessive way we approach it. Binge eating is just as real of an eating disorder as anorexia and for medical professionals or ourselves to pretend it isn’t is unfair and naive. 

(via meghantonjes)

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I’d never thought if it like that. Damn!

(Source: xojane.com)