I don’t think the other person is going to reply to this comment because there’s a fair few things that you have said here that are, to put it bluntly, pretty insensitive to a person who has just brought up the fact that they struggle with disordered eating.
I’m not saying that you comment should have a trigger warning on it, but there are topics and ways of discussing things like food and diet which can aggravate disordered eating. A healthy lifestyle is clearly something which is important to you. It’s worth considering whether your comment in this context is working in service of that outcome or whether it’s working in a counterproductive way.
Every single line written in my comment comes from a place of dealing with disordered eating as well. Specifically the parts where I talked about triggering foodstuffs and how everyone needs to charter their own course.
We can’t ignore the facts. We live under a food environment mostly made up of ersatz foods which are designed to trigger disordered eating. In acknowledging that, we come to understand the industrialized way in which are psyches are subject to siege. That is the context where I believe it becomes not only insensitive but also counterproductive to label fasting a fad diet. It’s not even a diet, it’s a behavior change that does work for lots of people because it resists the worst influences of the food industry in a direct and straightforward manner.
I don’t believe my comment was insensitive and neither was theirs, I think we put forward both of our points of view and walked out with mutual understanding of them. It wasn’t the first time I’d hear that fasting = disordered eating and I’m sure it wasn’t the first time they heard about risks associated with semaglutide medication.
I’m referring to a subclinical eating disorder or a label for someone recovering from an eating disorder here, in the sense that the other commenter has used the term, and not just “eating in a way that is unhealthy”
You, me, my therapist, psychiatrist and the leg I almost lost to diabetes are all on the same page then.
