oh, man

[serene]

Not posted in the person's journal whose entry inspired it, but it's no
secret I feel this way, so I'm not locking it:

If your reaction to being ill, and having your medication give you the
side effect of no appetite, is to be happy you're losing weight, *and to
hope it continues*, there is something wrong. This is not healthy. This
is not good.

*sigh*

Comments

[twostepsfwd.livejournal.com]

I love it. I said shit to people, too, like "What, so you're saying I didn't look good before?" or "Thanks, I can't keep any food down."

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Yeah. My response to people asking me how I lost a hundred pounds is, "I got divorced. Hard to eat when you're crying all the time."

[twostepsfwd.livejournal.com]

Oh man, that is depressing. I'd love to see the look on their faces.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

They usually look chastised, but I'm not doing it to make them feel bad, in the end. I'm doing it to challenge their notion that weight loss is always a good and healthy thing, or that people who get thinner are that way because they're morally superior or something.

Cute-poet-chick (my ex-wife) lost a lot of weight around the same time, but it was because she got diagnosed with an illness. I sometimes wonder if she gets the same shit.