eating disorders
My daughter took this picture soon after a professional photoshoot for a magazine. I had fasted prior to it in order to be a smaller size and have a flatter stomach.
At the sickest point of my being a weight loss story is when I received the most praise. . .especially from the medical community. My story was even featured on a popular doctor’s TV program.
I now call it Medically Induced Anorexia.
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I posted this picture on social media recently—with a caption of how it is so sad--and several individuals asked me to explain.
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The author at age five; one year before being put on her first diet.
Be gentle with her.
She’s got a tender heart.
She may appear to be chubby to you now, but soon she’s going to grow up to be tall.
She’s going to need any extra fat to fuel her future growth spurt—and fully develop her brain and all of her reproductive organs in a few years.
Read MoreLast year, a young woman from an impoverished country stayed with my husband and me for several weeks. She had no idea the impact she’d have on my relationship with food—as someone who’d struggled with disordered eating for decades as a result of lifelong exposure to diet culture. But nonetheless, God used her to heal my mind and set me free.
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