Nothing tastes as good as thin feels

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I get it. But, I’m concerned about your emphasis on how thin “feels good” - it does set off some alarms, sorry! I understand how we all enjoy looking good in clothes and things like that. But I’m picturing you feeling your ribs and your pelvic bones and deriving pleasure. Which seems a little disordered for an adult.

LOL

Not exactly. I'm not kate moss here.

I'm 5'4'' and 122 lbs. I have no interest in being able to see my ribs. I simply enjoy having a defined waistline and being able to fit nicely into my clothes. I enjoy my husband being able to easily pick me up. These things make me feel beautiful and are more important to me than eating that 2nd piece of cake.

You and the cake. No one said a SECOND piece of cake; that's not indulging, that's abusing food. One portion of a dessert is one portion of a dessert. You're taking the point that "it's fine to have one portion of dessert every now and then" and turning it into "eating a SECOND piece of cake" and "all the time."

Why are you doing that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m not the size 2 pp but I do agree with her (minus the want my husband to pick me up). I rather be skinny than eat that second piece of cake. I think it’s because I’m not that in to food. My husband is a serious foodie - I’m just not. However I’m seriously into fashion and clothes. So the way things look on me is the same as the joy my husband gets when eating really good food. I’m a size 4 btw.

What is with you people? NO ONE SAID A *SECOND* PIECE OF CAKE!

You are literally taking one piece of cake and turning into two. Do you not see the difference between enjoying one piece of cake and pigging out on two?

Stop acting like there are two extremes: completely Spartan, no-fun eating and multiple pieces of cake/half a pizza, etc., etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m not the size 2 pp but I do agree with her (minus the want my husband to pick me up). I rather be skinny than eat that second piece of cake. I think it’s because I’m not that in to food. My husband is a serious foodie - I’m just not. However I’m seriously into fashion and clothes. So the way things look on me is the same as the joy my husband gets when eating really good food. I’m a size 4 btw.

What is with you people? NO ONE SAID A *SECOND* PIECE OF CAKE!

You are literally taking one piece of cake and turning into two. Do you not see the difference between enjoying one piece of cake and pigging out on two?

Stop acting like there are two extremes: completely Spartan, no-fun eating and multiple pieces of cake/half a pizza, etc., etc.

The problem is that you're all saying it's empowering to say you eat junk food and are bigger than you would otherwise be (real women have curves and all that), but then you attack women who say they don't eat junk food because they enjoy being thinner.

It's the double standard that's the problem here. True female empowerment is about defining what beautiful means to you.

[Anonymous]

Nothing tastes as good as being in great shape because you've been working out and you feel vigorous and alive! You can be thin and feel crappy because you're in lousy condition.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP here. Ever heard of a man picking up a woman and twirling her around? It's fun and I enjoy DH being able to easily do that.

My issue is that you all make it out to be this empowering thing to be able to eat junk food and be bigger than the fashion industry thinks women should be. I agree it's absolutely empowering, but so is saying that I don't want to eat junk food and enjoy being at a lower weight. You don't get to call me anorexic for not wanting to celebrate sitting on the couch and downing a whole bag of chips.

Everyone should be able to define what being empowered means to them.

You are off your rocker. No one is saying to eat "a whole bag of chips."

A) Crazy extreme thin advocates: No chips ever.

B) Normal, healthy people: Some chips sometimes.

C) Crazy extreme unhealthy people: All the chips all the time.

Most people on here are saying that B) is the best option. And you A) people are trying to say that that makes them advocates of C).

Learn to read, and think about what you're reading before you respond.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP here. Ever heard of a man picking up a woman and twirling her around? It's fun and I enjoy DH being able to easily do that.

My issue is that you all make it out to be this empowering thing to be able to eat junk food and be bigger than the fashion industry thinks women should be. I agree it's absolutely empowering, but so is saying that I don't want to eat junk food and enjoy being at a lower weight. You don't get to call me anorexic for not wanting to celebrate sitting on the couch and downing a whole bag of chips.

Everyone should be able to define what being empowered means to them.

You are really obsessed with cake and “junk food” - esp for someone who doesnt want to wat it allegedly. Guess what? I dont want to eat “junk food” either but I don’t think skipping it in praise of “thin” is a way of life. It’s not one or the other. The world isn’t made of rail-thin girls skipping junk food while being twirled by their husbands and obese people cramming onto sofas downing chips. Your issue is you keep equating “junk food” to degree of thin-ness. Some of us don’t want to constrict iur eating and rather than measure “thin” want to measure health and fitness.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nothing tastes as good as being in great shape because you've been working out and you feel vigorous and alive! You can be thin and feel crappy because you're in lousy condition.

This. I have the most energy and feel best when I'm exercising regularly and getting enough sleep. Perhaps boring, but I think this is the recipe for feeling good about oneself, unless you're preoccupied with being thin as a goal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m not the size 2 pp but I do agree with her (minus the want my husband to pick me up). I rather be skinny than eat that second piece of cake. I think it’s because I’m not that in to food. My husband is a serious foodie - I’m just not. However I’m seriously into fashion and clothes. So the way things look on me is the same as the joy my husband gets when eating really good food. I’m a size 4 btw.

What is with you people? NO ONE SAID A *SECOND* PIECE OF CAKE!

You are literally taking one piece of cake and turning into two. Do you not see the difference between enjoying one piece of cake and pigging out on two?

Stop acting like there are two extremes: completely Spartan, no-fun eating and multiple pieces of cake/half a pizza, etc., etc.

The problem is that you're all saying it's empowering to say you eat junk food and are bigger than you would otherwise be (real women have curves and all that), but then you attack women who say they don't eat junk food because they enjoy being thinner.

It's the double standard that's the problem here. True female empowerment is about defining what beautiful means to you.

Again, some more. I'm the original poster who mentioned birthday cake. I said FOR ME, this is how I prefer to eat and live. That was my PERSONAL response to the OP's prompt: What do you think of the phrase "nothing tastes as good as thin feels."

I. Don't. Care. What. You. Do. I shared *my own* view.

What I do care about is that you are twisting my words, deliberately, to make it seem like me having one piece of birthday cake sometimes is me eating TWO pieces of cake ALL the time. That's not normal or healthy, either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What world is this where birthday cake is everywhere all the time!? Is it only birthday cake that doesn’t taste as good as thin feels? Which birthday cake?

I think it's in Earth II where we also have taco trucks on every corner. Oh to be in Earth II!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP here. Ever heard of a man picking up a woman and twirling her around? It's fun and I enjoy DH being able to easily do that.

My issue is that you all make it out to be this empowering thing to be able to eat junk food and be bigger than the fashion industry thinks women should be. I agree it's absolutely empowering, but so is saying that I don't want to eat junk food and enjoy being at a lower weight. You don't get to call me anorexic for not wanting to celebrate sitting on the couch and downing a whole bag of chips.

Everyone should be able to define what being empowered means to them.

Oh I’m the non twirling sort of woman.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PP here. Ever heard of a man picking up a woman and twirling her around? It's fun and I enjoy DH being able to easily do that.

My issue is that you all make it out to be this empowering thing to be able to eat junk food and be bigger than the fashion industry thinks women should be. I agree it's absolutely empowering, but so is saying that I don't want to eat junk food and enjoy being at a lower weight. You don't get to call me anorexic for not wanting to celebrate sitting on the couch and downing a whole bag of chips.

Everyone should be able to define what being empowered means to them.

You are off your rocker. No one is saying to eat "a whole bag of chips."

A) Crazy extreme thin advocates: No chips ever.

B) Normal, healthy people: Some chips sometimes.

C) Crazy extreme unhealthy people: All the chips all the time.

Most people on here are saying that B) is the best option. And you A) people are trying to say that that makes them advocates of C).

Learn to read, and think about what you're reading before you respond.

Wow. You think only "crazy extreme thin advocates" don't eat chips?

I like dessert sometimes, but I think chips are gross. I can't remember the last time I bought a candy bar. I'll eat dessert at a nice restaurant, but I think mass-produced junk food is just gross. Does that make me crazy?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PP here. Ever heard of a man picking up a woman and twirling her around? It's fun and I enjoy DH being able to easily do that.

My issue is that you all make it out to be this empowering thing to be able to eat junk food and be bigger than the fashion industry thinks women should be. I agree it's absolutely empowering, but so is saying that I don't want to eat junk food and enjoy being at a lower weight. You don't get to call me anorexic for not wanting to celebrate sitting on the couch and downing a whole bag of chips.

Everyone should be able to define what being empowered means to them.

Oh I’m the non twirling sort of woman.

Cool. And other women are allowed to enjoy that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP here. Ever heard of a man picking up a woman and twirling her around? It's fun and I enjoy DH being able to easily do that.

My issue is that you all make it out to be this empowering thing to be able to eat junk food and be bigger than the fashion industry thinks women should be. I agree it's absolutely empowering, but so is saying that I don't want to eat junk food and enjoy being at a lower weight. You don't get to call me anorexic for not wanting to celebrate sitting on the couch and downing a whole bag of chips.

Everyone should be able to define what being empowered means to them.

You're really moving the goal post here. The OP quote is that NOTHING tastes as good as thin feels. Not that your second or third piece of cake (where is all this cake? I love cake) isn't as good. The clear end game here is that you do not eat anything more than the bare minimum needed for survival, because thin feels zomg good.

Yeah - go ahead and eat a sensible amount so that you are a healthy weight. That seems like a good idea. That's clearly, clearly, obviously not what OP is suggesting. But go ahead and take it that way because nothing feels as good as mis-reading pro-ana quotes in order to serve your own purposes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PP here. Ever heard of a man picking up a woman and twirling her around? It's fun and I enjoy DH being able to easily do that.

My issue is that you all make it out to be this empowering thing to be able to eat junk food and be bigger than the fashion industry thinks women should be. I agree it's absolutely empowering, but so is saying that I don't want to eat junk food and enjoy being at a lower weight. You don't get to call me anorexic for not wanting to celebrate sitting on the couch and downing a whole bag of chips.

Everyone should be able to define what being empowered means to them.

You're really moving the goal post here. The OP quote is that NOTHING tastes as good as thin feels. Not that your second or third piece of cake (where is all this cake? I love cake) isn't as good. The clear end game here is that you do not eat anything more than the bare minimum needed for survival, because thin feels zomg good.

Yeah - go ahead and eat a sensible amount so that you are a healthy weight. That seems like a good idea. That's clearly, clearly, obviously not what OP is suggesting. But go ahead and take it that way because nothing feels as good as mis-reading pro-ana quotes in order to serve your own purposes.

Oh no -- what the PPs are implicitly saying is that the only way to be a woke, empowered woman is to be a size 6 or above. Anyone who is smaller than that is obviously a victim of disordered eating.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PP here. Ever heard of a man picking up a woman and twirling her around? It's fun and I enjoy DH being able to easily do that.

My issue is that you all make it out to be this empowering thing to be able to eat junk food and be bigger than the fashion industry thinks women should be. I agree it's absolutely empowering, but so is saying that I don't want to eat junk food and enjoy being at a lower weight. You don't get to call me anorexic for not wanting to celebrate sitting on the couch and downing a whole bag of chips.

Everyone should be able to define what being empowered means to them.

Oh I’m the non twirling sort of woman.

Cool. And other women are allowed to enjoy that.

So is homer and he eats cake.
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