DISQUS

If anybody is still reading this post or the comments. It seems a lot of people are missing some of the points of the article.

1. This article isn't talking about individuals suffering from anorexia or bulimia, rather, people who are naturally thin or have a healthy understanding of self-control when it comes to diet and exercise. Commenters who are equating self-control to anorexia is taking it to the extreme. It's not so black and white, starvation or binging.

2. The whole size 1 thing - granted it might have worked if the author had used a more common size. But the point is that everyone has a size they're striving for regardless if that is size 1, 6, 14, etc. Nobody should be continuously buying larger sizes due to expanding waist, unless you are overeating and continuously gaining weight.

3. Last point, a huge stickler for me is that personally I have a small frame and hasnt gained much weight (maybe 1-3 lbs) since high school. I'm 30. But this is a natural state for me for me. However, people (jealous, concerned, hateful, etc) would make snide comments regarding my weight all the time. As one commenter pointed out, I don't and can't make comments to people who are obese because that would be considered rude to to cultural norms (as this article is emphasizing) and yet calling me names is okay? This point seems to be largely ignored by the commenters who are criticizing this article.

I think making insincere/critical comments to people of all weights is rude and inconsiderate. Calling someone a fat slob or skeletor are both insulting. If someone truly has a eating disorder on either spectrum, there's a better way to approach them.

thanks for reading