A point you made got me thinking. You mentioned that larger people get fed up about their weight and then comfort eat even though they know it will make them feel worse in the long run, but it's a kind of cycle....
...I'm not ashamed to say, that for many years, from my teens to my late twenties I went the other way. I was anoroxic, although at the time I would never have admitted it...it's only now I can. I am 5ft 7 and weighed 5st 6 at my lowest weight....
Anorexia is more mental than about the weight, it's hard to explain as I really didn't realise at the time what I was doing, not eating....it was probably the only thing I could control in my life at the time (looking back I can see this now) and I was very unhappy for various reasons......i don't want to bore folks, but whenever anyone asks me what my biggest achievement it life has been so far...that's easy...beating anorexia all by myself
I am now a healthy size 10/12 and folks who haven't seen me for years comment on how well & healthy I look 'now you've put weight on'...I won't lie and say that comment doesn't stab slightly at me BUT, I know I AM healthy and eat healthy food (and junk food), and cannot believe I wasted all those years of my life doing what I did as this is probably my natural weight anyway.....I don't think it ever completely goes away, but now I have learned to be happy with what I've got, wobbly bits, cellulite, the lot....
I hope I've not bored you all to death, lol, I know it's different than losing lots of weight, but it' is about body image and low self-esteem and the love/ hate cycle it can create....
