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How Patriarchy Gave Me an Eating Disorder, Part 1
Disclaimers: 1. This title is, of course, hyperbole. 2. My parents didn’t teach or embody patriarchal attitudes. {Not blaming you, mom! Not blaming you, dad!} 3. I might have to add more disclaimers...
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How Patriarchy Gave Me an Eating Disorder, Part 2
My husband says I forgot to point out that not only did Ruth pursue Boaz, pretty much proposing marriage to him, but she also went and lay down next to Boaz at night. When he was sleeping. After he’d...
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Is Hating My Body a Sin?
I love seeing the search terms that bring people to Eat With Joy. Some of them are strange, some are creepy, some are funny, some are sad. Sometimes, the search terms inspire posts, like this one,...
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Is Everyone Losing Weight Without Me?
I’ve always loved books, but for a number of years–okay, for a lot of years–my reading choices have tended toward the serious. And yet few things are more enjoyable for me than curling up with some...
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The Eating Disorder You Don’t Hear Much About
The thing about a disorder like anorexia is that it eventually makes you look something like what the dominant culture regards as most beautiful, and achieving that ‘look’ becomes more important than,...
View ArticleIt’s Fat Talk Free Week!
So it’s Fat Talk Free Week. What? You’ve never heard of “Fat Talk Free Week”? Neither had I, until a little less than a year ago, when I was researching ways in which the discussions that we have...
View ArticleWhose Eating Disorder Is This?
When I say ‘person with eating disorder’ do you imagine someone who looks like this? Or someone who looks more like this:Anorexia and bulimia aren’t the only eating disorders out there. There’s also...
View ArticleOn Being (or wanting to be) ‘Skinny Pregnant’
Twice in the last week I’ve been asked how I went from disordered in my eating and body image to joyfully (if occasionally) consuming pie for breakfast. And while I’m never quite sure how to answer the...
View ArticleThe Victoria’s Secret “Angel” Diet
Recently, supermodel Adriana Lima talked to the UK newspaper, Telegraph, telling the paper what it takes to get ready for the Victoria’s Secret fashion show–including months of intense daily and...
View ArticleTracey Gold’s ‘Starving Secrets’
Remember Tracey Gold from Growing Pains? A recovered anorexic, she’s now hosting a new Lifetime channel reality show: ‘Starving Secrets.’ Even this People magazine photograph portrays Gold’s anorexic...
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