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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've lived overseas quite a lot. I think what happens in some of these countries, I am thinking Eastern Europe/post Soviet space, is that women really do starve themselves (coffee and a piece of fruit for lunch/coffee and cigarettes to tide over, drinking/smoking vs. eating)and then boom, they hit 40 and it's like a switch goes off and all the damage they've done to their bodies means they rapidly gain weight. That's not everyone, of course, but very very many women. [/quote]

I also lived in Eastern Europe for several years and this is spot on. (It’s been awhile so things may have changed.) But in my experience…Most young women did not have a healthy relationship with food. They smoked a lot to curb their appetite. They starved most of the time. They didn’t do anything athletic or exercise; there was a ton of fat shaming. The trend was to be very thin— not healthy. [/quote]

This is the crux. Americans think of us as having disordered eating because we watch the quality and quantity of the food we eat. We think of Americans as having a very unhealthy relationship with food because you use food as a band-aid for emotional problems. Americans eat when they are sad, tired, stressed, bored. They always celebrate with food. They eat all the time, sometimes hourly. Food is the legal drug addiction in the US and it shows. I don't think we're very thin. For example, most of my life I've been 120 lbs at 5'7, which is not even at the limit of the NORMAL HEALTHY BMI. If you put me next to the average American woman, who is is 3 inches shorter and 50 lbs heavier, I probably look skeletal. But I'm the normal, healthy one. I'm 46 y/o and I can run 5 miles effortlessly, hike 15 miles easily, and I've never had problems sleeping and my blood work and blood pressure are picture perfect. I got pregnant easily, even at 41 y/o and I carried two perfectly healthy boys to term. I've never had menstrual problems, fibroids etc. I've never smoked and women smokers are still the minority in EE. But even with the higher smoking rates, we still live longer and healthier lives. For example, Greece has a pretty high smoking rate even for Europe and a life expectancy that is 10 years longer than yours. So your addiction to food is worse than smoking.  [/quote]

What a sanctimonious twat. I'd rather be pudgy than this unbearable. [/quote]

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