Meat and Bone Page 205. Anne is…not so life goals.I...

Meat and Bone Page 205. Anne is…not so life goals.

I remember this phase that lasted a very long time for me, and took several years to get out of where I was obsessed with the qualities of everything I put into my body. Which foods increase metabolism, covering my food in hot sauce (which has formed a flavour addiction completely unrelated to weight loss, like damn, can I get some habanero with that??), what helps with digestion, etc., etc. I would measure not so much calories (but that too) as fake science where I could trick my body into being something other than what it was and is. Anne is not truly anorexic, not like Marshall. She’s EDNOS. Taking health food to an obsessive extreme is another kind of self harm with its own designation, Orthorexia Nervosa.

Now I’m so skeptical about food pseudo-science. Interested in it, sure (sometimes I think of a parody of the lyrics to Ani DiFranco’s song Fuel “And they say that alcoholics are always alcoholics even when they’re as dry as my lips for years” only swap alcoholic for anorexic and you get my point) not a fervent believer in anything, because most of that is spin. 

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