The newest eating disorder: Orthorexia

[liberal_at_heart]

77. I have started to see this in my daughter. She has recently started lifting weights and trying to

eat more protein and less carbs. She has started having an unhealthy obsession with big people who say they are healthy. She is convinced no one can be big and healthy and is always saying negative things about people like this. I tell her that it is more complicated than what she understands. The people out there that are morbidly obese, eating nothing but junk, not exercising and claiming this is healthy are the minority. Most people, big or small, understand that working towards a goal of eating better and exercising more is the right thing to do. I tell her that there are dozens of reasons for being big and for eating the wrong things such as medical conditions or mental health issues such as depression or trauma. We need to treat all people with compassion, not judgement. I hope she will understand this someday, and I hope her obsession with these people is not somehow related to how she feels about herself.