There is extraordinary comfort in knowing that soon, soon I will be presentable again
I have never felt more excited nor more of an irredeemable moral failure than I do right now. Over Christmas, my sister subscribed me
I thought I had sidestepped the worst of the body issues that have been a plague on especially the female population ever since we became advanced enough a society to produce surplus calories and choose what to do with them.
Somehow I have taken fully to heart, despite my rational brain, despite what I would consider my active feminism, my belief in myself as – in the grand scheme of things – a good person/friend/mother/daughter and a hard worker, the lesson that an excess of adipose tissue around my skeleton negates all this and more.
It is liberating in a deeper sense, too. Because if this is how some people – you know, thin people – feel all the time, then they aren’t better than me after all. They are not forever defeating the foe of hunger, it’s not that they have the willpower that I lack. It’s that they are built differently. There are people out there who feel like this all the time. Who can eat to satiety and stop.
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