One of my friends who used to be normal weight and size has now lost so much weight that she looks like a bobble head and still restricts food because she thinks she's FAT!
Obviously she doesn't know what fat means because being skinny isn't fat at all.
I told her she's lost a lot of weight and she thanked me profusely and even added that she's trying to lose more.
Well it wasn't a compliment but she thought it so.
I told her if she got any skinnier she'd disappear but she didn't think so.
There was a time I used to attend her aerobics lessons long back when I was new to China and lived in a smaller town so you can imagine I'd always known her to be healthy and fit, but now she's almost half the previous size that I considered and believed normal and suddenly her head has begun looking much larger in proportion to her body.
Dear me!
She doesn't eat dinner she told me, except a couple fruits or water. 'Wow'
And breakfast is usually something small and a bit of lunch at her office canteen. That's all the food she eats, and yes, she stoped eating carbs..so no rice which is pretty much a Chinese staple.
This is madness.
I wish I could talk her into seeing that she looks so much unhealthier now but my words would make no difference.
It's like when people can love their curves they can love their bones too which is exactly what my friend is doing.
Sigh.
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