Specter eventually came to identify this behavior as bingeing, an eating disorder she describes viscerally in her memoir, “More Pease: On Food, Fat, Bingeing, Longing, and the Lust for ‘Enough’” ( HarperCollins ). So the journey you describe in the book is twofold: You’re recognizing that you’re bingeing and figuring out what’s behind it and how to manage it, but you’re also learning to abandon diet culture. I do think giving up dieting was really crucial to getting to a place where I can just accept myself as a fat person. I can’t overstate the importance of having fat community in my life, and I really hope that for every fat person. “It” being your fear and your anxiety over what you're eating or not eating or what your body looks like or doesn't look like.

Source: Los Angeles Times August 05, 2024 10:19 UTC