Beating Back The Ed With A Stick

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I’m an ana blog- can I follow?

Yes! Just refrain from putting triggering content or tags on the post. We may block you if you decide to do this.

Will you stop posting recovery content in the proana/mia tags?

Here for you anon!! I’m not going to sit here and pretend I don’t also still struggle with disordered eating behaviors, of like, every kind. The prejudice I experience as a fat person certainly fuels it, and it’s just that much harder to actually make meaningful progress with recovery.

I am very proud of how far I have come though, because ultimately I am way happier than I used to be, and have been able to be more accepting of my body in recent times. I’m also going back to therapy, for a lot of reasons, one of which to address my thoughts around all of it. I guess what I’m saying is it can get better, even if that ‘better’ is imperfect, it can get better.

This content is for everyone! Weight stigma impacts everybody, just in different ways.

Ask yourself if you would still love you if you were fat. If the answer is no, ask why, sit with it. Work on it if needed. The fear of being fat is engrained in us all, and it keeps us all down. The sooner we all address that fear, the sooner we are free!

Thanks for looking at experiences you don’t think match your own, that means a lot to me. More than likely though, we have overlapping experience! On this I highly recommend the book “What we don’t talk about when we talk about fat”, as it really breaks down the social justice behind this through the experiences of a fat person.

Even as a fat person, I hold more privilege at my current size than other fat people. This book is written by someone who is 300+ pounds, and wrote experiences that even I was blind to. I think every fat person should read, but I think every thin person NEEDS to read this to learn the depth of prejudice against fat people, and how it impacts everyone. It was free through my library, and I highly reccomend.

Within a couple of years you will be vomiting blood so hard you piss yourself, just like me. It won't be the first time you vomit blood, or the first time you piss yourself. And it won't be the first time you do both at the same time either.

Dear cockroachmotherfucker10, please post this as it's the reality I think you deliver very well