Sad to see Anna's eating disorder will be back in full swing for 2020! Weighing yourself around the holidays is a huge NO NO for ED recovery. Everyone gains weight around the holidays because coming together to share meals and spend time with each other is the whole point! I feel sad for her that she's
publicly shaming herself for gaining weight and also publicly declaring how she's going to punish herself via restriction to get back in control and repent for the weight gain. Tough to watch someone so sick refuse to get help.
Also, whenever someone like Anna stops restricting themselves after a long period of restriction, they are always going to gain weight because:
- They're not restricting themselves anymore and are eating more calories, so, duh that leads to weight gain.
- Their body has been in starvation mode and is used to storing calories for later because it thinks it's being starved (which it has been). It's in survival mode.
- When you restrict yourself, the hormones that send messages to the brain that we're hungry and full get messed up...so your body no longer intuitively knows when to start or stop eating.
This is why people balloon up after extreme diets like Keto, Atkins, Raw Fruitarianism, etc. or after ED recovery. Eventually, though, if a person continues to eat intuitively and not restrict themselves, your body is able to heal and these hunger hormones balance back out and your body reverts back to its natural, healthy weight. I don't think that this will ever happen to Anna, though, because the poor thing seems to have a pattern:
- restricts/starves herself
- realizes she has an issue and starts eating normally
- starts to gain back weight
- fully panics and starts restricting again
This pattern won't stop unless she gets
in-person professional help.
Sorry for such a long winded post, as someone with a history of disordered eating, I honestly see my past self in Anna and my heart breaks for her. But it also makes my blood boil how irresponsible she is promoting her ED to impressionable young girls. Someone this sick is also absolutely not able to focus on and prioritize their children, which is awful for the 4 little SJ's. Jonathan, Oma, her botox doctor friend, her stylist friend, etc. should really stage an intervention.