How is it possible that a woman doesn’t notice she weighs 107.9 kilograms?
And by this I don’t mean she knows she’s big but doesn’t do anything about it. I mean how does she not know/see/feel she’s that heavy?
Well, Sara Bird says she didn’t realise the kilos were slowly piling on and was shocked when her doctor told her she was about as heavy as a baby elephant.
Now after much thinking the mother of two has come to the conclusion that she’s fatorexic. Yes, that’s right, she has fatorexia (and she’s written a book about it, natch).
As the 44-year-old from the UK says, “Just like an anorexic who sees a fat body when they look in the mirror, I’d been seeing a slim one. Where the anorexic wears baggy clothes to hide behind, I was wearing big clothes with the size labels cut out to hide my vastness. And while the anorexic pretends she is eating plenty, I was pretending to be eating less when actually I was constantly grazing.”
I’m sorry, but, um, what?!
Maybe it’s the cynic in me but I just can’t see how this can be put on the same level as anorexia. True, I haven’t had anorexia but I know there are plenty of scientific works explaining that is an actual disease.
As far as I know, eating too much isn’t. Of course if it there’s a good reason why someone is overweight (thyroid problems, for example) then it’s not the same thing.
Maybe I’m being harsh about this whole fatorexia thing. Or maybe women like Sara Bird should really think long and hard before they try to legitimise putting so much junk in their bodies then equating it with a recognised eating disorder.