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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t understand. Some people do have to eat differently to
Lose weight when they are overweight. Is this what you all are calling “diet culture “ ? This seems very odd to me that people might not understand others might have to lose weight? [/quote]

No, it's people who spend way too much time thinking and talking about what they eat and whether they are overweight. My mom, for example, is of a very healthy weight (5'2" and 120 lbs I estimate), yet every time I talk on the phone with her, she says she doesn't want to get fat, rehashes what she ate today (a teaspoon of sour cream with her black bean soup, what an indulgence!), tells me who among her friends is getting fat, mentions that she can still fit into all her clothes from years ago, etc. etc. etc. That's diet culture.  I wonder what her life might have been like if she had devoted that much time and energy to something more worthwhile for the past 60 years. She's not fat. At all. She's just obsessed with the topic.[/quote]

I don’t mean to be rude, but what is your height, weight, BMI? I think a lot of women who could stand to shed a few pounds are hyper-sensitive on this topic and like to point at thinner women like they have an eating disorder, when what they really have is discipline to not start on the downhill slide to fatness. I lost some weight a few years ago and it required a lot of discipline. My “friends” would make little jabs, insinuating that I had an eating disorder. I was just minding my own business, eating more healthily, and it’s like it drove them insane to watch the pounds come off. I refrained from saying that maybe their eating was disordered, considering that they couldn’t seem to stop.

Your mom’s height and weight puts her squarely in the middle of the range for a normal BMI. That’s something she has prioritized in her life. Good for her. Maybe you talk about things that bore her, too.[/quote]

Yes, everyone knows you’re thin. You don’t need to blather on about it constantly and neither do any of the psychologically disordered mothers (plural) referenced on this thread.

-normal BMI runner[/quote]

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