Fat* was the first word people used to describe me when I was a kid And that didn't bother me much until I found out it was supposed to
By the time I was fifteen I knew what it was like to be clinically overweight, underweight and obese It was the year of menthol cigarettes and baggy clothes Hunching naked over a scale shrine Mixing ***** with vitamin water, complimenting each others thigh gaps The year breakfast tastes like giving up and the only time you feel pretty is when you're hungry* Not obsessed with being empty but afraid of being full Replacing meals with more practical hobbies like planting flowers or fainting
And ever since I started evaporating, girls that never spoke to me, stopped in the hallway and had the audacity to ask how And when I told them I was sick, they told me I was an inspiration How could I not be in love with my illness? My eating disorder was the most interesting thing about me
But how lucky I am now to be boring To look at a sandwich and see just a sandwich Not half an hour of sit ups or two spent hugging the toilet This is the year I find more productive things to do than googling the amount of sugar on the back of a lick and stick postage stamp The year the calculator in my head finally stops The year that I eat when I'm hungry without punishing myself And I know that sounds stupid but that **** is hard If you're not recovering, you're dying
When people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I said *skinny