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[quote=Anonymous]My mom always commented on my weight and what I was eating.  She's always struggled with her own weight and she just extended it to me (but not either of my sisters as they were both always very thin).  For years, I had this need to always be on some sort of diet.  Even weighing 115 pounds in high school I felt like I was disgustingly fat.  I'd not eat all day then break down and inhale a ton of food right before she got home from work so no one would see me eating then I'd pick at my dinner to show how "good" I was being by not eating much. College was the first time I had access to a gym and I worked out obsessively because I was terrified of gaining any weight.  Every piece of food I put in my body was a negotiation - "I can eat this if I do x minutes of cardio later" or "I can't eat lunch because I don't have time to go to the gym today."

It wasn't until I was 30 that I just stopped caring about losing those last 5 pounds and instead focused on filling the house with generally healthy foods and not monitoring my intake every second of every day.  I still struggle from time to time with obsessing over my food and I'll never be happy with how I look but it went from being the thing I thought about most to something I only think about sometimes. [/quote]

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