calories

How about you? Are you wondering if others feel the same? We probably all have our own versions of obsessions, with many things in common!

For me defiantly calories.

calories for sure

Calories

definitally calories

calories

Calories. Funny thing that I don't even really look at fat grams...

I think that by obsessing so much over calories, I know that if I am only taking in a certain # of them, there is no way that I am getting too much fat.

I HATE calories!!!!!!!!! I wish I was completely oblivious to how many were in things! :(

This has been a curiosity of mine for many years BUT: do you feel like having the nutrition labels on products has benefited in the health factor? Personally I feel that since they've come into play, it's helped to fuel ED behaviours.

I am know recovered, but when I eat food (healthy or not) I still focus on calories. I am now in a place where I want to be fit and trim. I have done well and lost some weight, but it still haunts me that I have to eat x calories/day. I am no longer anorexic and am eating good foods, even my foods that over a year ago considered to be unsafe. I feel better, act better, am healthy and laughing again. I just wanted to post this so young girls battling with this can see that there is life on the other side and it is liberating to be free of prison. Your body places you in jail - shackles and chains and when you begin to eat again, you become free to be yourself, free of anxiety, suicidal thoughts, worry, etc. You can be happy and healthy!

Calories FOR SURE.

I HATE the new nutrition info on the menus when you go out. You think you have talked yourself into eating something and then you see the glaring calories and how do you forget something like that? It sucks that they did that.

I think the nutrition labels could have - and should have - been designed with more thought and care. I also think Mrs. Obama's new "rid childhood obesity" team and campaign SHOULD have eating disorder specialists on hand to advocate the proper methods of eating and not installing the myth that "being in shape and thinner will make life better." There are many things as a woman living with a chronic ED that upset me; this is one of them.

We shouldn't be choosing meals or foods based on the number of calories of fat, or based on what some diet treatment plan tell us is "healthy." Eat to live, don't live to eat. Our current society is educating us that eating isn't a basic need of human survival, it's a commodity and entity to profit from, and transform our bodies. Our ancestors would have been so ashamed...