I was lying in bed in my NYC apartment when the world went black. My breathing had gotten sluggish, and my heart felt like it was slowing down. I didn’t feel pressure in my chest, and I didn’t feel pain, just an overwhelming sense of tiredness and fatigue. A complete depletion of energy and the absolute inability to move. And then: black. I hadn’t eaten anything but gum and coffee for three days. Even before that, I’d been eating very little for weeks, months, even years. I was 24 years old and a full-fledged anorexic-bulimic. I know exactly the kind of life that weight obsession leads to. In this great new post, Vanessa Garcia opens up about how weight obsession robbed her of her lifes purpose and stifles the power of millions of us every day. What else could women be experiencing and contributing to the world if so many of us werent so fixated on controlling our appearances?
Posted on: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 16:00:01 +0000
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