Posted: Friday, November 30th, 2012 | Author: WitheringTulip | Filed under: eating disorder, Health, Life, Recovery | Tags: Eating disorder, ED voice, Healthy, Mental Health, Okay, Physical Health, Rationality, Recovery, Triggers, Vegetarian, Weight, Weight Comments, Whisper |
“she’s put on weight, hasn’t she! I won’t tell her that. But she looks good. She looks healthy!”… Not knowing that I was in the room next door, fully able to hear every word she was saying.
Earlier in the day I had a conversation with another woman about being vegetarian. She was quite surprised to hear that I was, informing me that I look like a “healthy” vegetarian… whatever that’s supposed to even mean. Weighty enough? Slim enough? I don’t know. I’ve seen vegetarians of every size.
The words are like bombs going off, only now, they’re a little further off into the distance. The ED voice is there, but small and unsure. It panics, saying, “oh God, you’ve put on so much weight,” and I respond, “yeah, but I’m healthy now,” and it asks me, “but, is that okay?”
And I say, “yes. Yes it is.”
witheringtulip 
She whispered,
Posted: Friday, November 30th, 2012 | Author: WitheringTulip | Filed under: eating disorder, Health, Life, Recovery | Tags: Eating disorder, ED voice, Healthy, Mental Health, Okay, Physical Health, Rationality, Recovery, Triggers, Vegetarian, Weight, Weight Comments, Whisper | 9 Comments“she’s put on weight, hasn’t she! I won’t tell her that. But she looks good. She looks healthy!”… Not knowing that I was in the room next door, fully able to hear every word she was saying.
Earlier in the day I had a conversation with another woman about being vegetarian. She was quite surprised to hear that I was, informing me that I look like a “healthy” vegetarian… whatever that’s supposed to even mean. Weighty enough? Slim enough? I don’t know. I’ve seen vegetarians of every size.
The words are like bombs going off, only now, they’re a little further off into the distance. The ED voice is there, but small and unsure. It panics, saying, “oh God, you’ve put on so much weight,” and I respond, “yeah, but I’m healthy now,” and it asks me, “but, is that okay?”
And I say, “yes. Yes it is.”