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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think a lot of those who are really upset about this post are those same people that can't seem to control their own eating, so this makes them really uncomfortable because it forces them to "look in the mirror" so to speak and be honest with themselves that they have zero self control. [/quote]

I am one of the people who is pretty appalled by this thread. And actually it's the opposite. I would guess most of us who feel this way have never really struggled with our weights, or with body image (beyond the normal sht most women struggle with).

My husband is very overweight, and living with him has taught me a lot about how easy I've had it generally. My "eat well and get some exercise!" approach works for me. It doesn't do sht for him. And as much as I've tried to become more open minded and empathetic toward others who need more than just a balanced diet and an hour of walking every day, I still have my biases - one of them is against fasting. Which I do think is a form of eating disorder - I just do.

And no, I don't include religious fasting in that. I wouldn't call it disordered, necessarily, if you went 12 hours a day without eating. But yes, going 36 hours without eating - sometimes multiple times a week. To me, to ME, that sounds like an eating disorder - and nothing that's been said here has made me think otherwise. The feeling of control, the purported mental clarity, the feeling as if you've hacked the system, the parsing out minute amounts of calories (a splash of milk, some bone broth) - that is how anorexics think and talk. This is like the GOOP-lady version of teenaged anorexia - or at least that's how it sounds to me.

Anyway - no, we're not all fat fatties who can't stop fatting. I think probably a lot of us who think this sounds really problematic are, instead, normal sized women who don't struggle with food in the same way as the people who find 36 hour fasts appealing.

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