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“Habitually, the both of us are purple. Absent and worn-out. Entombed in thought. A distinguishing quality of the women I love, meaning, none of us are bothered by how infrequently we see one another. We have an arrangement that was never formally arranged. A consideration for turning down invitations. We are happy for the person who is indulging in her own space, and how she might merely be spending the weekend unescorted by anything except her work, which could also mean: she is in no rush to complete much. She is tinkering. She is gathering all the materials necessary for repotting a plant but not doing it. She is turning off the lights and climbing into her head because that’s usually the move. In the years I’ve lived in New York, the women I’ve made friends with seem not unfocused, and not absorbed by what’s next or what happened days ago, but by what is marginally missing. As if they’re trying to place a face when crossing a busy street. Women who seem satisfied when riding an escalator, who never fare well when they run into someone and are forced to reenter the world so poorly. Their elegance lies in how summarily they’ll dodge its many attenuations, advancing alongside the world as if passing their fingers over the rails of a fence and cleverly selecting the right moment to hop over. They are women who are loveliest when just a little bit haunted or mad as hell on a clear day. Who carefully believe in ghosts and kismet, and are mistrustful of shortcuts. Who laugh like villains. Wake up earliest when the sky is overcast. Who needn’t say much for all to know, tonight they won’t be staying out long. Who dip their toes into the current, only to retreat and fantasize about the bowl of cereal they’d rather be scarfing down at home. Who, like my friend Jenny specifically, are hot. Who don’t need anyone—including me right now —to depict why. Proximity to hotness can feel like a link to the universe. Your hot friend on a balmy summer night telling you about some good news in her life is—How do I put this without sounding absurd? It’s barometric. It’s love and someone you love’s power growing, and it’s watching the elements cater to a woman who exudes.”

— Too Much and Not The Mood, Durga Chew-Bose

And so the first day that we begin to restrict [food intake], the cave person brain goes “I’ll take care of this. I’ve got you. I’ll protect your body weight.” And it starts to drop the metabolism… The way that this happens affects virtually every organ in the body… It shuts down normal blood flow to your hands and feet, and keeps them cold all the time like a spare room you don’t want to spend extra energy heating when you’re not using it… It cools you down a little bit and it makes you seek warm sweaters, extra layers, and hot mugs of tea, because it doesn’t want to do all that work itself to keep you at that vital body temperature. It slows down your heart rate, so that your body’s not wasting an extra beat, an extra calorie on a beat of the heart at rest. It slows down your digestion, so that you’re not processing food pushing it into your intestine, pooping it out regularly… It rolls the sex hormone center of your brain back to pre-adolescence… And it stops producing the chemicals that causes ovaries and testicles to produce sex hormones, and those go away… So the body says, “I gotcha! I will slow you way down.” And so when my patients say, “You know, Dr. G., I’m restricting so hard and I’m not losing weight”… I say, “Oh, doesn’t that make so much sense? Because that’s literally your cave person brain working. It’s lowered your metabolism to exactly what you’re eating.”

Jennifer L. Gaudiani, MD

Do you diet? Do you try to “eat clean” or avoid “bad” foods or otherwise restrict and control your eating? Do you exercise to “burn” calories and compensate for what you have eat? And are you cold all the time? Do you suffer from indigestion or constipation? Do you have a low sex drive or irregular menstruation? Are you chronically depressed or anxious? 

All of these are physical signs of metabolic suppression resulting from undernourishment and they can affect anyone of any size who is under-eating. These are the signs of a body in distress, and if it goes on for too long, then the distress can get worse and worse and serious health problems can result. 

The cure? Stop dieting. Eat more. Truly nourish your body. 

(via bigfatscience)

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