eating disorders
This is the age I was put on my first diet; an age when my brain and organs were still developing. In no way do I fault my mother. She herself was a victim of diet culture.
Several days ago, I knew deep within it was time to remove the Transformation Art Exhibit from my website.
It had been online for sixteen years.
This picture is a postcard image of the old Lutheran Hospital in Fort Wayne. It has since been torn down, and a park is in its place. I was admitted to a geriatric unit on the seventh floor.
Forty-five years ago, on a Wednesday after school, I walked into my parents’ farmhouse and discovered a doctor was admitting me to a hospital that night for tests. I had lost a lot of weight, and he suspected I may have diabetes.
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If the majority of your language, as it pertains to food and body size is: “I shouldn’t be eating this,” or “I need to be eating that,” or “I’m not supposed to be eating this,” or “I’m not allowed to have that,” or “I should weigh ___,” or “I blew it” or “I’ll start over” or “I was naughty”. . .you may have been conditioned by the external voices of diet culture instead of internal self-regulation.
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The summer of 2009, my body stopped losing weight after a year of eating nutrient-rich, whole plant foods. I had lost one hundred pounds of inflammatory tissues, and I felt great for the first time in my life!
My health biomarkers were excellent.
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