Meaning you can’t empathize? Lucky you, I guess. I had so much anxiety around eating for so long, and it’s not unusual. Until I was 25, never put one piece of food in my mouth without thinking about the calories and how it would make me fat. I’m sure she looks in the mirror and still sees fat.

Yes more people have eating disorders in the other direction, and will eat when stressed. I have trouble wrapping my mind around that. It’s been half my lifetime since I recovered but I still can’t eat when stressed.

It’s heartbreaking and eventually fatal if you keep restricting. Skinny is not automatically unhealthy, body types do differ.

There’s plenty of pressure on women to be small, and when your life is out of control, one thing you can control is eating. It is oddly easy to fall into disordered territory.