Juliet James
Jul 28, 2017 · 1 min read

It sounds to me like it’s only a “choice” if you don’t mind living a life of disordered eating. Which is the way it is for many people who have struggled with weight and landed in the small minority of those who “kept it off.”

People don’t realize that “keeping it off” often means skirting the fringes of an eating disorder, if not developing a full-blown one. Eating disorders also don’t necessarily look the way we think. Some people will say, oh I eat plenty and I eat everything I want/like, but they leave out how they over-exercise their bodies to a point of pain and injury. And if they share that, it’s often lauded as an accomplishment to be celebrated, instead of being looked at in a critical (as in critical thinking, not negative) way… because if you’re working out to a point of feeling sick or being injured or “playing through the pain” or doing or saying any of that “fitspo” type crap, it’s a problem. It’s not normal and not healthy.

Now, all of this said, I believe we all have our own journeys to take in the bodies that house us. Yours may not be mine, mine may not be yours — and in fact, beyond this — our paths may never even intersect. And that’s okay, too.

It’s all okay, as long as YOU are okay.

    Juliet James

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    Makeup is my art. Words are my superpower. Wife. Dog mom. Gilmore Girls obsessed. Jersey Girl. Coloradan. Body inclusive. Bisexual. Queer. Unapologetically Me.